Did you buy it?
They are a great great deal. I really liked the J-Standard Iliad I tried, just couldn’t dig the U.
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Yes, that is the one I bought. My MDB5 has a U neck and absolutely love it. I looked at some of the Odysseys but decided to go cheap and make sure the gee-tar isn’t a whim. Still pretty cheap
It does have a coil tap, J-standard fret edge treatment, which I take to mean rolled frets.
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Nice rug, Ikebe
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Speaking of Ikebe…
Pulled the trigger, picking it up on the 31st.
Out of all I tried it had the best feel for me.
Good Lord. Half my instruments will be Fender.
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Never say never 
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Yeah definitely happy to admit I was wrong there 
Will be under $740 with tax after points kickback, not bad for MIJ
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It was only a matter of time.
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Very cool. Congrats!!
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The Hybrid II line is just too good. I refuse to even try a J or a Strat
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Nice one. Blue Tele is the mark of a person of discernment and taste
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It’s a good thing that the color Blue doesn’t apply to guitars as it does to BMW drivers!
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So which is Yin and which is Yang?
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So the big question for my new guitar is how good is the humbucker. Will be a few days before I see it, possibly Saturday, possibly Monday.
What are good humbuckers? I looked at DiMarzio just as planning and I like their stuff, and I saw a bluesbucker. I know folks here have a lot more knowledge than I, so for blues/classic rock what are good options for humbucker neck and single coil bridge?
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A lot of criteria depending on what you like. But yes, speaking about brands, DiMarzio is a serious one. It’s equivalent to Seymour Duncan, quality-wise, which is really good.
I’d say that you should look at the PAF territory. Every brand has one or more PAF-style pickups, it’s really the standard Gibson pickup.
The Seymour Duncan SH-1 is a great all-purpose PAF-style pickup, pretty standard but it works extremely well. The SD Pearly Gates is just a bit more agressive, so I’d say that a Pearly Gates bridge and a SH-1 neck would be a really excellent combination for blues and rock stuff. You can also play jazz and hard rock without any problem.
That’s just an example but as I have owned those two SD pickups, I can tell that this combination would be great and very versatile while still being purely PAF-style pickups.
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My guitar is a S/H model
Okay, sorry for the noobness, is a strat single coil interchangeable, like would a pearly gate strat fit?
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Although I see Fishman makes single coil
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If that’s your question : Tele and Strat pickups are not the same. But you can use a mini HB that fits a Tele bridge, that’s what I have on Juliette : a Seymour Duncan Lil’59 which is somewhat the Tele version of the SH-1. Still different because it’s not the same form factor, not the same winding and not the same magnet, but there is this PAF-style DNA. I really like the SD Lil’59, it sounds somewhat at the same time like a PAF and like a Tele, if it ever means something.
… That said, a Tele bridge single coil works very well for classic rock too, Keith won’t disagree. And for blues you will always prefer the neck pickup or the middle position anyway.
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