recently, my neck of my Martin came off the body of my guitar (yes i dropped it).
anyway, she is all fixed but the guy who set it back up lowered the action too much... im used to high action and it is so low that its even lower than my les paul...
Man how is this a bad thing.
I got my AVRI Jaguar at the beginning of September. This thing is absolutely everything I ever wanted. Bright, snappy pickup response sortof like a Telecaster, but with the added benefit of a rock-solid tremolo and a rhythm circuit (and the sawtooth 'keeper' surrounding the pickup does wonders in avoiding that 60-cycle hum). So when I finally managed to sell my SG shortly after, I didn't really miss her that much.
Some interesting quirks about this guitar are mostly related to string changing. For example, the tuners are true to the original in that they don't have a hole drilled perpendicular to the post, but rather drilled from the top as if to make it into a thick-walled cylinder. The very tip of the post also has a groove cut into the top. It makes string changing a bitch and a half, because it involves taking the string, wrapping it around the post 3 times, cutting it so that there's a maximum of 3cm left, and then sticking the cut-off end into the hole. It's a goddamned pain, I don't know what the fuck Leo Fender was thinking when he designed it. A side note, though: in terms of tuning stability, they're rock solid. No complaints there, and it's pretty well worth it.
Another interesting thing is that with the 24" scale, it takes less effort to bend notes. That also means there's less string fatigue, and so your strings pretty much last as long as you're willing to let them. Which is nice, because I will never get over how much of a pain in the ass it is to restring the fucker.
Another sortof weird quirk is that after you've gone through the absolute agony of restringing, tuning up, stretching your strings and then retuning, you have to divebomb the tremolo bar all the way to the body and center the bridge, then ease up on the tremolo slowly. Otherwise, with the bridge doing that floaty thing that it does so well, you're going to wind up with the bridge leaning ever so slightly toward the nut. And if you don't know better, you're just going to think that you're having intonation issues, and you'll wind up making a hell of a lot of work for yourself.
Aside from that, it's absolutely the finest instrument I've ever laid hands on. The neck shape is perfect for my hand, I have no fret access issues on the upper frets, and I will be damned if you can find me an instrument with better looks than these.
Oh and I -really- love playing "Impossible Germany" and "Little Wing".
