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LIMITED EDITION "Made in Japan Traditional Series is a reproduction of Fender's traditional instruments with Japanese craftsmanship. In this time, we put some special customizasion to that. The Made in Japan Traditional 60s Jazzmaster® HH Limited Run equipped with Wide-Range CuNiFe humbuckers with CuNiFe rod magnets that produce a rich, bell-like humbucker tone. Other features are a gloss-finish basswood body and a vintage-style 21-fret, 9.5"" radius ""U"" shaped neck. The rosewood fingerboard with neck binding and block inlays make this model so unique. A six-saddle vintage-style bridge with floating tremolo tailpiece provides classic playability. Completely limited quantities. (Text is the original product description from Fender's website - spelling mistakes, bad English and all)

NECK MATERIAL Roasted Maple NECK FINISH Gloss Urethane NECK SHAPE "U" FRETBOARD RADIUS 9.5" (241 mm) FRETBOARD MATERIAL Rosewood INLAYS Pearloid Block NUMBER OF FRETS 21 STRING NUT Bone NUT WIDTH 1.615" (41.02 mm) NUT MATERIAL Bone

BODY Basswood BODY FINISH Gloss Polyester BODY SHAPE Jazzmaster® BODY MATERIAL Basswood

BRIDGE 6-Saddle Vintage-Style Adjustable with “Floating” Tremolo Tailpiece PICKGUARD 3-Ply Tortoiseshell CONTROL KNOBS Vintage White Plastic HARDWARE FINISH Chrome TUNING MACHINES Vintage-Style STRINGS Nickel Plated Steel (.009-.042 Gauges) NECK PLATE 4-Bolt

BRIDGE PICKUP Wide-Range CuNiFe Humbucking NECK PICKUP Wide-Range CuNiFe Humbucking PICKUP CONFIGURATION HH CONTROLS Master Volume, Master Tone SWITCHING 3-Position Toggle: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge And Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup

First Japan-only limited run came out in October 2021 and was supplied with a hard case. Second run was available in Europe and appeared in July 2022, but was only supplied with a gig bag.

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2022 Fender Japan Traditional II 60s Jazzmaster Olympic White

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davepepper

Good but would change a few things about it.

Review written after owning the guitar for about half a year. The good - weight, neck (plays great, no rough frets or anything), factory setup (still haven't changed anything), the pickups (sound amazing). The bad - was advertised as with case but specs changed before delivery and it came in a horrible gig bag, I'd have preferred it to have a rhythm circuit and 1 meg pots - and the body isn't routed for a rhythm circuit unfortunately so it's not an easy modification, the Japanese vibrato with its associated play problems

There's a lot to love about this guitar but I wish they'd done it in a different colour with matching headstock (they did eventually - black, for Japan only though). My decision was based on the price of a neck and Cunife pickups, both of which I was going to buy for another project anyway - and the fact that Fender Japan had actually made the guitar I was going to build anyway - just in a different colour and without a rhythm circuit (would have built "mine" with a Gibson style config with 2 vol pots, 2 tone pots and a strangle switch.) Apart from the tone knob, it's essentially a Lee Renaldo Jazzblaster as a stock guitar. I'm more about bright cleans - and this guitar does them incredibly well. Would have rated it full marks if the price was lower or if it came with a hard case, or if it had been routed for an easy rhythm circuit mod. Don't really want to rout holes in a guitar that was this expensive.

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