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robroe · Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 12:42 am Post subject: mustajagstanguar jacks

3 guitars 3 new jacks. 5 years in my basement/me beating on them has turned them all to the scratchiest shit

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robroe · Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 1:44 am Post subject:

lol i never grounded any the jacks 10 years ago

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paul_ · . Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 9220

Those better be genuine Switchraft or else I might hafta feign an attack of scurvy.
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Concretebadger · Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 8:07 pm Post subject:

I replaced the crackly jack on my CIJ JM with the cheapest thing that I could find - a couple of quid from Maplins.

I've no idea if there's something we all ought to be doing to make them last longer. I got a good five or six years out of this one, and the guitar was second-hand to begin with.

Bacchus · Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 9:34 pm Post subject:

I've never had to replace one. Just tighten it and maybe bend the tip bit in so that it holds the lead tip tighter.
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HNB · . Joined: 15 Apr 2012 Posts: 4089 Location: Puyallup, WA

iCEByTes · Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2016 12:39 am Post subject:

switchcrafts 1/4 last over 10 years. fender and gibson just use them on Main line
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paul_ · . Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 9220

Was just kidding with the Switchcraft comment. I care when it's 3-way togglies, but no reliability preference on mono jacks as of yet.

Rob, wouldn't the grounded pots/plate ground the jack? I think that's how Teles were originally done.
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robroe · Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2016 4:25 am Post subject:

yeah it was grounded to the pot i guess.

when i ripped the jaguar apart, the jack was grounded to the copper plating inside it and it was all factory. so i thought i fucked mine up 10 years ago. i guess they are fine
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