RRP: $3,999
If you’ve missed our coverage so far of the American Acoustasonic Tele and Strat, we’ll recap here as this new Jazzmaster version is very much a sibling. The Acoustasonic might use the shape of those classic solidbodies, but it is an acoustic guitar first and foremost. It’s also a Fender, so all three guitars are bolt-ons and have the Micro-Tilt adjustment (albeit it with four screws to secure the neck, rather than the two-screws-plus-bolt of the original ‘70s design), which is essential for setup when you have a non-adjustable acoustic-style pin bridge.
Although the guitars still employ the standard Fender scale length, the necks themselves break with tradition: mahogany, quarter-sawn for maximum stiffness, with a 22-fret ebony ’board and a flatter 305-millimetre (12-inch) Gibson-like radius. The mainstream neck shape is the same across all three, a modern deep C like Fender’s American Professional II.
The body shells are again mahogany. Our Jazzmaster’s is
