Chad T.'s Fender Jazzmaster, Anyone know what kind of bridge he uses? Options

[mfitz804]

Anyone who knows this guitar knows that the most common modification is to swap out the bridge, replacing it with a Mustang style bridge or a Tune-O-Matic (a la Kurt Cobain). Anyone know if Chad plays on the tradition Jazzmaster bridge or if he uses one of the mods?

[alcoholiday]

Anyone who knows this guitar knows that the most common modification is to swap out the bridge, replacing it with a Mustang style bridge or a Tune-O-Matic (a la Kurt Cobain). Anyone know if Chad plays on the tradition Jazzmaster bridge or if he uses one of the mods?

per an interview...

http://www.guitar.com/cda/ColumnCorner/art...41b&sSection=TL

"I bought this guitar and it was pretty heavily modified. The pickups were flipped upside-down. Jazzmasters are a really tricky guitar compared to a Stratocaster. It has a much stronger pickup pull. Jimi Hendrix tried to play one but he had such a hart time with it. It kept feeding back so much that he couldn't control it. So the pullpiece is in back of it. We reversed the pickups and the pullpieces were pushed out more. And there was an additional bridge piece put on the guitar, so it plays much more like as Stratocaster, but with a more Dick Dale-esque sound. "

[mfitz804]

Damn, that was close...the extra bridge piece he is referring to is probably a "buzz stop" which is used in conjunction with the bridge, so any of the mods I mentioned could be done in addition to it. Anyone have a super close-up picture of that guitar anywhere?