I think I've been looking at my Jaguar's body for too long. It suddenly dawned on me the Special HH is a peculiar guitar; why would it need additional pickup mounting rings when it already sports a pickguard?
As I was removing the pickguard's plastic lining (which required the removal of the mounting rings), I took the opportunity to probe the cavity. The Special HH's pickup cavity is actually wider than the mounting rings' dimensions. This makes sense because from an economical perspective (& that Fender is a business entity after all, duh?!) it's wiser to use available resources for a humbucking guitar as opposed to incurring costs to route a fresh body for humbucker fittings. In this case, the Special HH's body, judging by the dimension of the pickup cavities per se, is actually a Jazzmaster body whose routing are a little wider to accomodate the P-90 type pickups.
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I saw that previously u have a fender special which has jumbo frets instead of the medium jumbo like this one.
Can i ask what's the difference between jumbo and medium jumbo in terms of the playability and the sound?
yup... i do own the American Special :-)
in terms of feel, the bigger the fret size, the easier it would be to fret. the surface of the frets 'catches' the strings readily, so to speak. for speed freaks, this would be preferred. same goes for chording notes.
if you prefer thicker gauged strings, it makes more sense to go for bigger fret sizes but at the end of it all, it's all personal preferences :-)
thanks a lot for your feedback! :-)
I saw some internet reviews that says the jumbo frets are so high that your fingers won't even be touching on the fingerboards when you are pressing down chords or notes. Is that true for the american special?
And regarding the string gauge for american special, how high can you go with it? 11?
the common acceptance is that one's fingertips MUST come into contact with the fretboard when playing but that's conventional... because we know it's unncessary when scalloped fretboards are concerned. as long as you can get a note ringing when fretting the notes, that's fine. should the scalloped fretboard camp live by the common acceptance they will:
1. have notes raised sharp every time they fret
2. have painful fingertips all the time & maybe die young :-)
haha, ok..
But american special doesn't use scalloped fretboard..so this doesn't apply right?
nope... it's a general reference.
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