Product: Nash Guitars J-Series
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
06/11/2008
at
01:48am
by
Marlon Hoffman
Email: Rosedad<at>mac dot com
Features
:
10
ADDENDUM TO 10/28/2007
SEE OVERALL RATING
THANX
Sound
:
10
ADDENDUM TO 10/28/2007
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
10
ADDENDUM TO 10/28/2007
Reliability/Durability
:
10
ADDENDUM TO 10/28/2007
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
10
THIS IS THE RATING I WISH TO ADD!
Product: Nash Guitars J-Series
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
01/30/2008
at
09:25pm
by
jazzyjazz
Features
:
10
2006 Nash J-series. This is an update to the bottom review.Super tight body/neck connection. Both pickups can run through the bass circuit. Love the feel of a nicely worn neck. Rare, no longer in production. Cool!
Sound
:
10
Upgraded to Curtis Novak vintage style pickups. Much prefered to the previous Duncan vintage (not antiquity!) pickups. Has smooth mellow tone.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
10
Had a friend refinish it in trans-white. Original was over-reliced in my opinion. With some lighter relicing this guitar looks awesome.
Reliability/Durability
:
10
No problem.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
n/a
Overall Rating
:
No Opinion
Holds up like a solid Jazzmaster should. Good vintage feel and tone.
Product: Nash Guitars J-Series
Price Paid: USD 2040.00
Submitted
10/28/2007
at
01:39am
by
Marlon Hoffman
Email: Rosedad at mac<dot>com
Features
:
10
I am not the worlds most careful assessor of guitars. But I know what I like. I like my 1965 candy apple red Jaguar( beat to all high heaven and owned and played by Oliver Sain and Ike Turner for 10 years), I like my 1965 red Stratocaster and I love my 2007 Bill Nash Jazzmaster. I've owned and played most everything and as we speak Max Baranet is finishing my "MAX". This Jazzmaster(for all practical purposes) is a dream. Plays like a dream and sounds like everything I like about Rock, Blues and Jazz. 22 frets that feel like they invite me to play more and more. the SD pickup are just fine and dandy playing through my Carr Rambler and a 4x12 speaker system designed unofficially for me by Steve Carr. The guitar looks and feels like a well worn guitar that any one with any brains would drool over. Two well known guitarist have played this and both individually agreed that it is one of the best guitars that they have ever played. I have a way of pickn'm and Bill Nash has a way of makn'm.
Sound
:
10
This Jazznashmaster fits in perfectly with my Lou Young, Neil Reed, Sonic Age, Psycho-delic, country-surf-missouri-folk-blues style. One day I'll be Leonard Cohen meeting Peter Green. My amps include a little iddy biddy Supro, 65 Blackface, Carr Rambler, and now of late my new Epiphone Valve Junior Stack cured by Alan Cyr of Mercury Magnetics. My effects include, Xotics' BB and RC, a modefied Arion Chorus, Keeleys' Java Roast, Line-6 Echo Park, Digitech Jam-Man and Jimi Hendrix pedals and well as a Jangle Box and Maharashi by Freakshow FX. Most the time I'm playing straight into the Carr with no effects. When Im doing that this guitar has plenty of beef and plenty of twang soul forever. It has just enough hum from electronic interferences to remember the 60's. Very little though.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
10
Fits like a glove. I have all my guitars always set up for me so I'm comfortable. It played so well I bought it, after one playing. The man who sold it to me told me I would like it better the origional 62 Fender Jazzmaster that I passed on for $4000 two months previous. He said, "Its a better guitar". And its getting better all the time.
Reliability/Durability
:
10
Everything is solid and purposeful on this rig.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Bill Nash doesnt answer my email when I wanted to praise him and ask a question or two.
His anonymity and quietness are respected by me in loo the the brilliant instrument he has
created for me. I'm tickled that his dad was an origional jazzmaster on the trombone. I take all this seriously. Also Ive heard that this was from the last batch of Jazzmasters that he will make. I wonder if this is true. Either way I am supremely lucky.
Overall Rating
:
No Opinion
Ive been carrying a guitar around for 35 years. Playing for keeps for 20 years.
Product: Nash Guitars J-Series
Price Paid: USD 1750
Submitted
03/04/2007
at
11:53am
by
neil
Email: ncotterill<at>gmail dot com
Features
:
8
I like that the bass circuit runs to both neck and bridge pickups. Real Jazzmasters only have it wired for the neck pickup. The seymour duncan vintage pickups suck though. For the money these should have been hand-wound.
Sound
:
8
Sound is resonant, but again the pickups are totally generic.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
8
Two-tone sunburst. Finish has some blemishes that aren't part of the "relicing" so it doesn't really look like an old guitar. Dissapointing really. I tried to fix them and screwed it up so now I'll probably end up stripping off all the paint.
Reliability/Durability
:
No Opinion
Haven't had it long enough. Just a couple months.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
n/a...I've heard good things, but really would be a pain when you consider shipping and you can't deal with Bill directly.
Overall Rating
:
8
Not worth the money. Buy an old refinished jazzmaster for the same price. They are much better. I have one. He's not making them anymore (probably for this reason) so it doesn't really matter.
