Hot or Not? Fancy Fender Edition

[Deep Eddy]

I saw these Fender Select Jazzmasters at Chicago Music Exchange, and yet I don't recall anyone on the board mentioning them or having one. Fender appears to be targeting the market niche often filled by the boutique builders.

What say ye?

Summary

Body: Flame maple top on chambered alder body

Neck: Birdseye maple neck with a medium-round profile, 1.685” wide nut, channel-bound rosewood fretboard, 9.5”-14” compound radius, and block inlays

Pickups/Hardware: Locking Fender tuners, two humbuckers, three-way pickup selector switch, volume and tone controls

Cosmetic Condition: There are a few finish chips along the bottom edge of the lower bout as well as some light surface scratches on the back of the body. There is also a small chip along the back contour and along the treble side of the guitar. The neck and headstock both look and feel like-new. Besides a few chips in the finish this Jazzmaster is looking good!

Playability: The strings are low, play great, and ring out clearly across the board.

Modifications/Repairs: None

Weight: 7lbs 15oz

 

[Dogsinplastic]

horrible

 

[Stratguy]

eh

 

[Guitar Heel]

I like my Fenders nice and plain, so this doesn't do it for me.

 

[Chad]

It has lost everything that makes a Jazzmaster cool.

 

[jelloman]

Just a big slab of wood...NICE wood, but...

 

[Elias Graves]

That's cool. I love the channel bound neck. That's a killer idea that looks slick as hell.

 

[CBHScott]

I like it, but except for the body it has no resemblance to a Jazzmaster whatsoever. Call it something different ffs.

 

[Kerouac]

Love it, but those pickup suck. We had one at my local GCS and it was really resonant and played great, but what meh-sauce pups

 

[Psychotronic]

I kinda like it!

 

[bsman]

 

[jp_nyc]

It’s horrible. The arched top that wrecks that jazzmaster design by making it appear to be an undulating amorphism. I hoped that this was an illusion created by harsh lighting and tight zoom. But every front shot of this guitar, and others with different finishes, has the same problem. Looks great from behind, tho.

 

[Tig]

I'd rather have a more traditional Jazzmaster, or something like this "Stratocaster".

 

[dougk]

It's a Kauer Daylighter Standard

 

[Deep Eddy]

It's a Kauer Daylighter Standard

Well, that's what I thought of when I saw it. That's why I posted it - hoping you would chime in.

 

[Ignored Member]

I'd rather have a more traditional Jazzmaster, or something like this "Stratocaster".

Whuzzat? I'm interested.

 

[Tiltsta]

I like the new take on the neck binding thing, but the rest of it doesn't work for me. I think Chad has it right, it lost everything that made the jazz master cool.

 

[Mark Wein]

It looks like it just ingested a small villager and needs to take a shit.

 

[Jbird]

I kinda like it.

I like the Kauers a lot better though

What's the scale length on them? 25.5", or 24"?

 

[baimun]

I don't care what anyone says.... I really like it!