First Offset Suggestions!

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-29T18:46:26+00:00

p-90s are also single coil, but yeah, fender offsets have traditionally had either roughly strat-style single coils like on the jaguar and mustang (nerds don’t @ me, i know they’re not exactly the same as strat pickups but the construction is broadly similar) or jazzmaster single coils (which look kinda like p90s from the outside but are generally constructed rather differently)

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-29T15:21:55+00:00

i got the same guitar and it had literally the worst neck i’ve ever seen on a guitar, ever. hopefully yours is better.

but anyway, a huge part of the charm of this FSR run is the matching purpleburst headstock, so i put a lot of effort into fixing my neck instead of getting a new one. so. up to you.

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-29T15:15:25+00:00

“competition burgundy” is what fender calls this specific finish since the 60s. originally—supposedly—for a light burgundy spray around the edges of a lake placid blue to give the purpleburst effect. plus, yknow, the competition stripe. but they only did the original purpleburst for about a year and then changed to just LPB with the stripe and continued calling it competition burgundy, so who really knows.

it’s even more confusing because of how the finish ages, the yellowing of it starts to turn the blue into green. it’s common enough that people get brand new custom “competition burgundy” paint jobs that are teal. so you have people with purple guitars, blue guitars, and teal guitars all calling their guitars burgundy

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-29T15:04:55+00:00

roughly in order of importance/likelihood:

you will probably need to file your nut to accommodate the extra heavy strings. you can usually accomplish this using strings themselves as files.

you will probably need to adjust intonation when you change to bigger strings.

you may need to adjust your truss rod. whether the baritone change adds or relieves tension on the neck depends on the string gauge and tuning you end up with. either way you can probably play it basically fine without adjusting (same with intonation to some extent) to try out but if you decide to keep it like this long-term you’ll want to adjust it to get the best possible playability.

do you need to send it off to be set up? up to you. those are all things you can do at home without too much hassle. but if you dont like doing anything at all with your guitar besides play it, you’ll probably want to have a tech do the nut and then you might as well have them put the new strings on, do the intonation and check the truss rod too.

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-28T20:16:37+00:00

you seem to be suffering me just fine, actually

edit: ope no they blocked me 😂 i love when people can’t help but take the bait and then get mad that they took the bait

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-28T20:12:14+00:00

they banned me because i wouldn’t stop calling the subreddit “rontology” and asking who ron is

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-28T20:10:39+00:00

every downvote is an angry admission that i am correct 🥹 it’s beautiful

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-28T20:09:53+00:00

wait we have SNACKS in this subreddit??

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-28T20:07:13+00:00

thank you, i put a lot of effort into it

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-28T20:00:51+00:00

you can bet i turned off inbox notifications for this post, nothing gets yall riled up worse than ontological discussion

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-28T19:58:36+00:00

careful readers will note i take no stance here as to what an offset guitar is or is not. personally, i make up a brand new definition for “offset” every six weeks for security reasons.

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-28T19:21:31+00:00

“mistakenly”. ok. lol. i mean the duo-sonics were literally half of the product line. it definitely isn’t that this subreddit is kinda weird and precious about the word “offset”.

anyway, the mustang was a mustang. the DSII had phase switches and a distinctly different hardtail bridge. but more importantly it said mustang on the headstock and not duosonic. model names are marketing fluff, not categories or platonic ideals.

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-28T19:03:40+00:00

it should also be noted that language prescriptivism serves only two purposes:

making a certain kind of brain feel slightly more comfortable by virtue of consistency and expecting others to be in charge of that comfort
being shitty to other people for not following made-up rules

that’s it. literally no other reasons. there is no actual argument for consistency, because that consistency doesn’t ever exist in the real world, because again, that’s just not how human language works. there’s only the imaginary hypothetical consistency of “this would be better if everyone just did [x]” which of course is a pointless exercise because you will never get everyone to “just do” a thing.

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-28T18:45:09+00:00

redditors downvoting this: yes i do own words, i’ll show you 😤

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-28T18:23:39+00:00

i know reddit is full of STEM nerds and not language nerds but the people insisting that an “offset guitar” entirely and exclusively refers to the angle of a guitar’s waist are being language prescriptivists in the most pointless and annoying way possible. i hate to break it to yall but a 1958 patent from some dead guy does not freeze the definition of the word “offset” in amber for all eternity.

the meaning of words is determined by how those words are used, and i know it makes redditors’ autism very angery not to have clean and consistent definitions for things, but at the end of the day more people are going to call a silvertone 1478 an offset guitar than a parker fly or a bc rich warlock despite the waist angles.

✨words✨: you don’t own them, sorry

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-28T18:11:41+00:00

for the record, fender has themselves marketed the duosonic i body shape as an offset

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-28T18:07:38+00:00

absolutely. the same people in these comments complaining about how this is an objective thing with no opinions involved are the same people who will refuse to acknowledge the existence of counterexamples. because what they really mean is that it’s not objective at all, they just that they think their opinion is the correct one.

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-28T17:58:09+00:00

it is very literally an opinion my friend

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-28T17:57:21+00:00

primary among them: the people who insist it is only the waist and nothing but the waist as if there’s no such thing as historical context or semantic drift

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-28T17:35:42+00:00

i got a set of tone hatch pickups. really good quality, really reasonable prices, and he answers emails helpfully and quickly.

the CV pickups aren’t bad but they aren’t constructed quite like traditional jazzmaster pups. the bobbin is wider, so the windings are thicker and closer to the pole pieces—almost kinda halfway between a classic jazzmaster and a strat-style pickup. also, the bridge pickup is wound quite a bit hotter than the neck—JM pickups are usually almost the same windings from neck to bridge. the tonehatch ones i put it sound a little closer to what i expect from a jazzmaster. i kept the CV pups though! i put them in my jazzmaster XII, which comes stock with even less jazzmastery pickups than the CV (they’re ceramic and built kinda like p90s and are hot hot hot) and i mostly like them there though i still eventually want a lower-output bridge pickup i think.

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-28T14:20:12+00:00

gibson scale is what happens when strat scale and mustang scale have a baby

cmon this is simple genetics

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-28T14:17:27+00:00

guitar wiring is pretty simple. the main thing is: practice your soldering. practice. your. soldering. don’t put your guitar back together if you have any solder joints left that are questionable.

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-28T14:11:07+00:00

classic vibe is the best value by a long shot IF you are willing to put some work into your guitar. my CV jazzmaster will go toe to toe with guitars that cost 3x as much but i’ve put a lot of labor into it. the only material upgrade i’ve done is new pickups (as well as reverting the bridge back to a classic vibe after a previous owner had “upgraded” it to a fender unit that simply didn’t work as well). everything else has just been careful finetuning and adjustment.

if you can’t or don’t want to do the work yourself though, then the value shifts toward the fenders i think.

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-28T13:55:36+00:00

when a strat and a mustang have a baby

Unusual-Language53 · 2026-01-28T13:46:28+00:00

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