Fender '62 Reissue Jaguar

1994 Japan made 22 fret, special single coil pickups (non humbucking, but humm reducing), 24" scale, metallic candy apple red (looks cool on stage), floating tremolo (read below), 2 tone control sets, bright switch, tremolo lock, deep switch, 6 pickup combinations (via 4 switches)

Perfect for surf and blues (on deep switch) also works well for grungee, but can get alot of feed-back if not careful, hum-reducing pick=ups work well and add punch (compared to a Stratocaster) I use this with a 1964 Fender Vibro Champ (always on ten) add give a sweeter and punchier overdrive (like on a Dick Dale recording) You also get 6 really different tones from this guitar everything from growling blues to bright jingly surf

The factory set-up sucks Take it to a gold level repair have 'em to put on D'addario 14 gauge strings (they feel like 11s on a Strat) and re intonize the whole thing, raise the pickups and lower the strings Now it plays like a dream

This guitar is a Fender wait a decade drop it and it is worth more. The body does feel well balanced but like it it'll fell back ward if you go crazy on stage, get strap-locks not a back-up

Fender sold it with the wrong tremolo bar and would not admit it, I know they sent someone else on the web the wrong one to, so when you get it set up ask about the bar it should lock in solidly and swivel smoothly

Playing for three years on guitar (5 on bass, flute, piano, violin, cello) and this seems like the best deal of them and the deep tone works really well with the flute for duets I traded in a American Standard Strat and I got the better deal, But sounds best through old tube amps

1997 Japanese Maple neck, with Rosewood FB. 7 1/2 degree radius, 24" scale neck. One piece basswood body, with a brown 'burst' finish. Standard electronics (for the model). Vintage tuners, and vintage trem. Came with gig bag.

I bought it basically because I got a good deal on it, and I was curious about the model. It does the classic 'surf' tone very well, and also can handle some of the more modern alternative stuff. The stock PUs sounded pretty good, and when played through a good tube amp, the classic 'Fender' sound from the 60's was nailed.

The setup was fine, and it was a pretty guitar. I had been looking at the Jagmaster's, but I noticed they had bodies slapped together from 5 pieces of wood, and this one was a single piece.

Dunno.... I sold it after a few months because the 'vintage' bridge did nothing to keep the thing in tune, plus it buzzed a lot. I never played out with it while I had it. It seemed solid enough, though.

Don't know. I got great support from my friends at my local music store (they set it up for me, free), but that doesn't count.

I've been playing for over 20 years (althought I took a extended absence for a while). I liked it a lot, but it didn't really fit into my Christian rock/praise/worship thing. Plus it was made for heavier gauge strings, it was terrible with .09's, got slightly better with '010s, but was really meant for '012s or '013's... the combination of the bridge design(no cut string slots) and the shorter scale length really made for a bad combination with lighter strings. The vintage trem sounded great, but had problems staying in tune, so I never really used it.
It's a decent guitar, just be aware that with a 'vintage' type design, you also get 'vintage' type problems. :-) It was originally designed to be Fenders top of the line model, and sold for a lot more than Strats and Tele's.

Mine was made in 1994 in Japan. It has special design single coil pickups, short scale and the shape is fantastic. Heaps of switches means heaps of treble sounds incredible guitar!

I mainly play late eighties seattle music, ie Mudhoney, Tad etc, and this guitar is so perfect for it that it scares me! Its also good for any metal aswell. The pickups arent thin like i thought and what they lack in strength they make up in tone.

The action when I got it was so low and still is, its fucking incredible and its short scale, you could play if for hours and just keep going. The finish and shape are so perfect that sometimes you just look at it and say "that looks insane"!

I beat my guitars pretty hard and this thing takes it all. It can be thrown dropped, thrashed and it doesnt care.

I had been dreaming of this guitar for ages and finnaly got enough money to buy it about 1 year ago, I love it. If anyone stole it I would cry nd then buy another one in a second. I have lots of pedals distortion mainly and it rules through them. It sounds so much like Mudhoney that it gets the same sounds as on the albums, even the same feedback! Im currently going through a Marshall but am currently saving for a 74/5 Fender Twin Reverb. After that im never leaving the house!!! If you want a cool looking cool sounding and the most comfortable guitar around go the Jaguar!