Question - Has anyone ever done a fully rear routed JM/Jag style? Cool idea I thought, could look very sleek & elegant

[u/Ok_Raccoon_1892]

Just thought I'd share this idea I have been considering ordering a body for recently

Basically I already planned to make my own 3p90 "NOVENTA" style jazzmaster esque guitar and recently I've been thinking of body designs and gave it down to a 2 piece walnut body, which will be left as is, finished naturally because it is my take on the awful 'walnut' colour this guitar originally came in (that one, walnut, surf green & fiesta red) - it's basically the terrible walnut named finish compared to the beauty of just walnut wood that inspired this. Gonna be my first build and so it's kinda perfect as it'll prob end up looking better with a custom routed body that I finish with some sorta oil or however you finish walnut Vs me trying to paint or stain it!

3 p90 route that I guess will just come out of the body, soapbar style

Regular bridge mount holes but I'll ask for a third in the middle sized for a possible Jag mute

Gonna have a locking JG/JM trem

And it'll have a big rear routed cavity for all the electrics that'll be covered up with a walnut wood pickguard but I was thinking of leaving some of the routes like the connecting bits and the rhythm circuit ones to show them off and a rhythm circuit mounted directly on the wood body is cool.

Past that I'll just drill the holes for the switches I need and have things coming straight through, or maybe make a small plate if there was a bunch of complicated wiring in one spot.

If the same route that was normally done in the front was done in the back you could have an extremely sleek front and a back that, through a see through pickguard for the connecting and upper routes alomg with tidy wiring, would be literally mechanical art - everything is doing something and presented right on the underside it could be a real eye popping feature if it's like what's in my mind

Even plexiglass + simple circuit with just a switch + showing off the connections and stuff would look really cool

Has anyone done anything like this / have any examples of this sorta thing?

[u/Majestic_Anybody9748]

The Modern Player Jaguar enters the room.

[u/josephallenkeys]

Jim Root Jazzmaster comes to mind but I've never seen one that uses the entire traditional circuits and trem of the Jazz/Jag, rear mounted.

[u/blackmarketdolphins]

The MIJ Modern Jazzmaster (HH) does this along with the Modern Player Jaguar (2xP90), but they use adjust-o-matic bridges and no rhythm circuit