Check out “This Year’s Model!” The Elvis Costello Signature Jazzmaster guitar honors one of the most recognized and recognizable Jazzmaster players in pop music history.

Costello’s original instrument has gone through many changes in the past 30 years, and this new Jazzmaster faithfully replicates the guitar as it existed at the time he recorded his acclaimed 1977 debut album, My Aim Is True.

Features

• Early ’70s neck design
• Walnut stain finish
• Tremolo with easier and greater travel - for that spine-tingling “Watching the Detectives” spy movie sound!

Specifications

• Body Alder
• Neck Maple, “C” Shape, (Nitrocellulose Lacquer Finish)
• Fingerboard Rosewood, 7.25” Radius (184 mm)
• No. of Frets 21 Vintage Style Frets
• Pickups 2 Special Design American Vintage Jazzmaster Single-Coil Pickups (Neck & Bridge)
• Controls
  • “Lead” Circuit
    • Volume
    • Tone
  • “Rhythm” Circuit:
    • Volume
    • Tone
• Pickup Switching
  • 3-Position Toggle
    • Position 1. Bridge Pickup
    • Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups
    • Position 3. Neck Pickup
  • (Lead Circuit)
  • 2-Position Slide:
    • Up: Lead Tone Circuit
    • Down: Rhythm Tone Circuit
• Bridge American Vintage “Floating” Tremolo with Tremolo Lock Button
• Machine Heads Fender®/Gotoh® Vintage Style Tuning Machines
• Hardware Nickel/Chrome
• Pickguard 4-Ply Tortoise Shell
• Scale Length 25.5” (648 mm)
• Width at Nut 1.650” (42 mm)
• Unique Features
  • Tremolo Arm is Adjusted Higher than Normal to Allow More Travel and Deeper Bends,
  • 60’s Styling,
  • Transition Style Fender Logo,
  • Aged White Plastic Parts
• Strings Fender Super 250R, Nickel Plated Steel, Gauges: (.010, .013, .017, .026, .036, .046), p/n 073-0250-006
• Accessories
  • Deluxe Brown Hardshell Case
  • Strap
  • Cable
  • Special Jaguar/Jazzmaster String Set, P/N 0730050999

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