Fender Vintera '60s Jazzmaster Modified, Pau Ferro, Surf Green

Product discontinued

Fender Vintera '60s Jazzmaster Modified, Pau Ferro, Surf Green

Product discontinued

Fender Vintera '60s Jazzmaster Modified, Pau Ferro, Surf Green Overview

Fender Vintera '60s Mod Jazzmaster, Pau Ferro, Surf Green Overview.

The brand new Vintera series from Fender is here to replace the Classic and Classic Player series with a fresh look at the demands of todays musicians. New body shapes, new colours, new pickups designed by Tim Shaw, more authentic neck profiles and an improved entry point into the vintage-inspired instruments that Fender have to offer, Vintage style for the Modern era!

For players who appreciate the mojo of the past matched to contemporary features, we created the Vintera ‘60s Jazzmaster Modified. Blending classic looks with a modern neck profile and fingerboard radius, hotter pickups and updated electronics—this guitar packs a surprising amount of power under the hood.

For modern Fender tone we re-voiced the pair of single-coil Jazzmaster pickups, kicking things up a bit by increasing the output. The warm, smooth-sounding neck pickup is balanced by the bright, cutting bridge pickup. The “Modern C”-shaped neck has a 9.5”-radius maple fingerboard with 21 medium-jumbo frets for modern playing feel. An Adjusto-matic™ bridge is paired to Jazzmaster floating tremolo and vintage-style tuning machines provide original-era aesthetics, rock-solid performance and tuning stability. Other features include the classic lead/rhythm circuit, chrome hardware and 4-bolt neck plate. Includes a deluxe gig bag.

• Hot 60’s pickups, modern C neck profile, 9.5” radius, adjust-o-matic bridge, modified trem position, medium jumbo frets, pau ferro fretboard.

• 3 Tone Sunburst & Surf Green over an Alder body.

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Rated 4.00 out of 5 06/1/2023

The neck on this guitar has a couple of machining faults - a line across the fretboard above the 12th fret that has not been sanded out, and a narrow, slight dip in the fretboard just in front of the nut. The low E saddle on the adjust-o-matic bridge appears to have been fitted cross threaded as I had a lot of trouble adjusting it to get the intonation right. ( There had been no attempt to set the intonation at the factory, It would seem that you don't get that on sub-£1k guitars nowadays.) The saddle screw on the G string is also very loose & I've had to put a drop of contact adhesive on the end of the thread to stop it buzzing. My previous purchase was a Squier FSR 70's Jaguar and although it had a couple of issues on arrival which were easily resolved, I feel that the overall quality of the Squier is on a par with this Fender which cost over twice as much. I've basically paid the extra for the name & an alder body. That said, once set up the guitar feels good, plays well & sounds great, so I'll be keeping it !

Aidan Williamson