Fender Jag-Stang

Stock '95 Made in Japan Fender Jag-stang
Fiesta Red
VERY THIN 24" scale neck, 22 frets, basswood body, Fender pickups, Mustang trem, Kluson tuners.

Best Neck I've ever played on. Love the finish.
I dun particularly care for the trem or tuners 'cuz I like hardtails and locking tuners, but these things are very easy for me to overlook.

I love the stock pickups, they are pretty underpowered, but I dig on low output pickups. They may not be for everyone though. The switching on this guitar makes it super versatile. I play mostly AltRock/Grunge stuff, and it does that best, but it can definitely handle most styles of music. It can sound bright, it can sound full, it can sound tinny, it can sound bassy, it can sound pretty much however u want.

Nice low action. I got it used so the finish was chipped and stuff. The finish does seem to be pretty fragile. Also had a couple scuffs on the frets. Nothing too bad though.

Seems to be built like a tank aside from the fragile finish.

haven't dealt with em

My favorite guitar that I own... if somebody stole it, I'd prolly go on a shooting rampage.

Jan 1998 sonic blue Crafted in Japan.
22 frets - one more than a strat :)
Pickup selectors are weird, puts it out of phase if you want to though.

Slanted single at neck and slanted humbucker at bridge.

Mods I have done:
JB and SSL-3 pickups
Electrical tape round bridge posts to stop it moving around
Sprague orange drop 0.01uf instead of 0.47uf - Stops the 'muddy' sound
New switches - direct replacement because the old ones were completely worn out

The stock pickups were crap, The bridge was weak and tinny, loads of treble from the basswood, no mids from shortscale and no bass. I now have a seymour duncan JB there which distorts really well. The original neck pickup was okay but it was too weak to be paired with the jb so I got an SSL-3. Like the originals, the new pickups have exactly the same output which is useful.

The bridge on it is wierd, it is kind of like Gibson bridge but it moves around (not any more because I wrapped up the posts)

I love the feel of the neck. Small with jumbo frets and it is nice and thick, it fills up your hands.

I play a lot of metal with big solos and stuff. The jagstang is so good at shredding its unbelievable. it can pull off pretty much anything, metal, rock, surf, alternative, so anything apart from blues.

If you have the humbucker on alone, it does good metal.

If you add the single in phase then it goes that little bit heavier.

Take the humbucker out and it sounds like a strat on steroids, really deep but thats probably just the new capacitor.

Both pickups out of phase is like a P-90. Loads of treble. Great for surf music here.

I have no complaints about the sound, the clean sound is strange, a lot of range there and the distorted sound is amazing. Also having master tone unlike a strat means that you can sculpt a tone with that too. I prefer to roll it back for metal but halfway for thrash.

Pretty good. The chrome is getting a bit dodgy and all the screws are rusty. Also the bridge pickup doesn't align with the strings so it sounds a bit fuzzy on the bass strings. Also the finish never chips or wears down, it cracks like glass which is a bit of a bummer (you can see this around screws and stuff).
The neck is well made, jumbo frets are wonderful and it is as good as new. Also the body cuts away properly so you can actually get to the top fret unlike a Les Paul. The nut is always cut for 9s so you need to file it for anything else and the bridge saddles move around but it doesn't affect tuning or intonation.

Well, when I got it it was advertised as broken (hence being so cheap) all that had happened was the input jack came a bit loose so someone tightened it with a spanner and it simply went round and round and broke the wire. Once that was soldered back, it was fine!

Jagstangs come with pretty crap components, bad pots bad capacitor, bad pickups and unshielded wiring. If you replace everything , you will have a much nicer sound and also would last a few years.

Unmodded 7
modded 10

10 year super strict warranty. If you don't have or ever have not had fender strings, they will not service it, let alone modifications! Fender are hopeless record keepers and can't help you with any problems.

I am amazed with this guitar. I don't think I could have got anything better - I think it is the only shortscale shred machine out there apart from the jaguar (but this is better) Also this is great to mod, it seems to be open to all kinds of things except extra switches

BTW feel free to e-mail me any questions about the guitar

Sonic blue 50th anniversary. MADE in japan not crafted like the reissues. Not that it matters I just specifically wanted an original. I fell in love with this guitar the moment I saw it. I first purchased a fiesta red reissue of ebay. When I got it I noticed it wasn't an originallike the seller said so I was pretty upset. I sold it on ebay and made some extra money back and baught a O.G. one. The moment I had to mail away the first one I was heartbroken :(. Now that I have my O.G. one I promised her I would never let her go

I love the way this guitar sounds. I know everyone says the pick ups are cheap or whatever but there is so many different styles of music you can play on this badboy

LOVE IT! love the neck. it's easy to jam on. Easier to throw your thumb over the top when your playing jimi style music or blues. Don't like how it dosen't stay in tune with the floating vibrato

I baby mine. at least until I get a couple more in my arsenal

If it was stolen from me.. I would hunt them down and make them pay

sonic blue standard late 90's jag-stang

picks up radio signals sometimes ...
cool variety of tones ..
goes from tinny to fat and full with the flick of a switch..

strings are wayyyy to light i blame this on previous owner.. bridge cant be messed with much or will need to be retuned right away.. action is low.. all else is sweet tho

its a fender what can i say i could use it to paddle a boat and plug it in and play after.. thanks fender.

who knows?

traded guitar even trade for a 1978 musicmaster (modded) been playing guitar in the "indie rock" style for about 10 years.. makes me want a jaguar and a mustang too.. already have the jaguar bass! a solid bridge like on the teles would have been better..thats my only complaint.. this guitar is wayy more versitaile than the musicmaster was..

I have a 1994 Jag-Stang in the orange-red color. It was made in Japan. The neck is maple/rosewood; standard controls. I think the body is probably basswood. It has a Mustang-style bridge and tremolo. The finish is somewhat thick poly. The body is the hybrid Jaguar shape without belly or forearm cut; I believe you call this a slab body. It has a white pearloid pickguard that has a tendency to peel apart in layers, leaving sharp corners. The Jag-Stang body shape is kind of appealing, but the pickguard was not well-designed to fit the body shape.

The original feature set is not particularly good. The Mustang tremolo is almost unusable, so most players will wrap the bridge piece posts with tape to stabilize it and not use the tremolo bar at all; it very quickly will put the instrument out of tune and will even break strings.

The stock pickups are rather weak single coils and the body cavity shielding is poor, so the guitar as shipped is relatively noisy (mine would pick up radio stations). Even the knobs aren't all that good. The switches are wired like the original Mustang switches, which aren't all that useful, because out of the various settings there are several that turn both pickups off and several that configure them the same way. The Kluson-style tuners are not terribly good. It has a really flimsy stamped-metal string tree for the highest two strings which probably does nothing to contribute to tuning stability. The nut seems rather cheap.

I bought this guitar because my first electric guitar was a Fender Mustang and I love the Mustang neck. The Jag-Stang has some of the "vibe" and feel of the Mustang but does not take advantage of many years of advances in tremolo design, locking tuner design, pickup design, etc. It is also worth noting that, like the Mustang, you cannot adjust the truss rod without removing the neck.

The original features did not produce very good sound; however, ultimately I had the guitar completely rewired, changing out all the parts including the pots and switches. I had a "Lil' 59" put in the neck position and a JB humbucker in the bridge position. The wiring was changed so that I could use the switches to enage or disengage the volume and tone pots. I attached my Roland guitar synthe pickup, and also changed the setup and began using 11s, and raised the action slightly. With these modifications the guitar actually sounds pretty good; I can get some hot rock tones as well as smooth jazzy tones. The Roland works well with the 11s (less false triggering, easier to trigger). I also replaced the stock knobs with chrome knobs.

So, I'm not quite sure how to qualify this; the stock setup I'd only give a 6 (the very light and resonant body makes up for some of the low-quality electronics), but the heavily modified guitar gets a 9. I'll report the stock setup. I believe most players who are not collectors trying to keep the guitar in original condition will probably want to modify their Jag-Stangs over time, or just trade up. Note that it is NOT cheap to make all these mods, unless you have the skills to do it all yourself. A comlete rewiring job is not a good project for a beginner. You will most likely screw it up and wind up paying a guitar tech to help you finish it up.

The fit and finish of the Japanese-made Jag-Stang was quite a bit poorer than my original Mustang. The metal parts feel cheaper, the chrome plating thinner. Everything worked reasonably well but just did not quite have that hand-built feel. The fret corners were not nicely smoothed and would snag the fingers, although they were reasonably flat and even.

The body finish was very solid and smooth.

I mentioned the pickguard above; for some reason the Jag-Stangs were build with flimsy pickguards that tend to peel apart at the corners, leaving sharp edges that stick out.

I beat this guitar up a bit, as I played it out weekly and dropped it a few times.

One thing I have noticed is that the body wood is relatively soft. After removing the neck a couple of times, to adjust the truss, the finish around the neck pocket developed some cracks. The screw holes in the neck also got a little torn up. It seems that the quality of the maple is not quite all that. My old Mustang did not have this problem!

The neck pocket had paint and sawdust in it and was not as smooth as it should be (you want a solid smooth wood-to-wood join). After removing the pickguard a couple of times some of the screw holes became shredded and I had to shim them with toothpicks. The much harder wood used in the Mustang never gave me this trouble. Again, somewhat mediocre.

Never dealt with Fender.

Overall, the stock Jag-Stang gets only a 6. While some people may try to call this a "vintage" instrument, it does not have the "vintage" build quality. It is also not truly a player's instrument; at least the stock model is not. Let me be very clear: these instruments are _not_ worth a lot of money!

I am not actually a huge Nirvana fan, but I am a big fan of the original Mustang. That was the reason I bought the Jag-Stang. I also like the body design, although not the lack of contours.

I have been playing on and off for about 25 years. I had an original Mustang and various strat copies and acoustic instruments.

Would I replace it with another Jag-Stang? No. Instead what I am considering doing is replacing the neck with a Warmoth-made neck with an ebony fingerboard and satin finish and locking tuners. Then I'll probably replace the body. At that point the only parts that will be original will be the bridge hardware. But the bridge and tremolo hardware isn't actually very good... hmmm. Maybe I will see if I can get a luthier to custom-build me a Jag-Stang -shaped instrument from scratch, with the same scale length and body shape, but better hardware all around.

fender jag-stang in fiesta red, mix of mustangand jaguar, maple neck feels great to hold and play however its not for shredders!!
jap model, 22 frets
1 volume, 1 master tone
selector for each pickup!
S/Hpickup configuration
fender pickups!
passive
got mine second hand so a few dings, but has held out well!!

bought for a change in style but doesnt get played as much cos im into heavy metal!!
wah wah used cos it sounds awsome!!
bit o string buzz
not much varietyin the guitar, nirvan and grunge
not so versitile!!

action is too high, but will change that!
pretty well adjusted pickups, sounds good
bridge was just fixed, brill now!!

will withstand being droped on its nose from a great height, strong guitar!!
hardware is lyk new!!
would be my mortgage on this guitar lasting a v long time!

iv been playin for three years nd i usually play a dean ml for metal, however tis has changed that nd i now play some rock 2!!
the bridge is my fav part, cos i fixed it wen i got it with ease
a looking trem wouldnt go a miss!!!

Gloss finish over a light blue paint. Body seems to be basswood. It's a non-contoured Jaguar shape with a 3/4 size neck with a rosewood fingerboard. Mustang-style floating bridge with some rather cheap vintage-style tuners. It has 3 pickups (S-S-H) with independent phase controls and on/off switches. One volume and one tone knob.

I use this to play surf music, so it works for that. It has a pretty good range in that you can get a good variety by playing with the polarity on the pickups. The pickups themselves (which are stock) don't have the greatest output, but is very servicable through a decent amp. I play through a Fender Twin Reverb and a Spider II simulaneously to get a slight natural delay, and the guitar sounds great under this configuration. Pickups are rather noisy (unshielded), so you want to have a lot of headroom in the amp to minimize buzz on the single coils.

This is one of the '94 models made in Japan. The setup and the workmanship of the guitar is top notch. The neck radius seems to be a bit more curved compared to the American models I've seen. I've found no finish flaws -- the only downside I've seen is really in the design itself. 1) The body is not contoured on the back, and 2) the pickup controls (which are above the pickups) are a bit high and can get in the way if you are strumming over them. Until I got used to this I actually turned off my pickups while playing out once.

Seems very solid. I've played it regularly and it seems to do well. I always have a Strat as a backup, however.

I bought it used, so I've never had to use support.

I own a couple of Gretsches, a Mexican Strat, a Tele, a Schecter Stilletto bass, and a variety of acoustics (Martin, Yamaha, etc.) I also build my own acoustic guitars, so I'm keen on action, fit and finish when I buy something. When I do buy, I usually seek something like this model, which is something a bit off-the-radar. It certainly works for what I use it for, and so I've been really satisfied. I particularly enjoy the variety of sounds you can achieve with the pickup wiring, and I enjoy the 3/4 size (my first). I wish the pickups were a bit better, so I'm considering swapping them out with some SD Antiquities and sheilding the body cavity to reduce hum. Also, I really like the bridge in comparison to a vintage style bridge I have on my strat. This bridge seems to stay in tune better, and I can do slight dips by simply pushing on tailpiece rather than using the whammy. This helps in alternating between muted, tremolo picking and doing the slight "hawaiian" style dips. Frankly, I'm surprised these didn't take off more than they did considering the features it has for a relatively inexpensive guitar. Extremely playable.

early '95fiesta red guitar, original texas special single in the neck and whatever that factory bridge pickup is, most hate teh switches, i however love them, lets me mix my tones whichever way i want

incredebly versitile, this is one of the old japanese ones, no tthe bull shit new ones, i can play regeah to hardcore on this bitch

action was wonk when i got it but it was used so i tinkered, i love the neck feel and the action on it know, comfiest guitar i've played that didnt cost a grand

the jack is a little fidgetty adn teh switcehs get bumped sometimes,you ahve to keep and eye on the nuts holding the pots in, they get loose quick, electronic components have never failed me

if its an old one, there great, but dont buy anyhtign past 96 of you want a quiolity instrument, mines the shit, your might be to

As its listed in all the other reviews no need to elaborate alot.

I play just about everything, Funk,rock,Grunge,Blues and even country.Guitar is very versitile, and the single coil neck with humbucker in the bridge is about as perfect a combination as you can get in my opinion.I try to avoid using effects as much as possible,preffer to plug into one of my all-tube amps and give the amp a good kick in the guts for some nice REAL o/d and distortion.The neck pup sounds best clean, mostly due to the increase in noise as you crank the gain,clean the bridge pup sounds very poor, plugged directly into a cranked 1/2 decent tube amp it does sound passable. The neck pup is on the weak side as well as being a bit noisy, especialy if you amplify that noise by running through noisy high gain effects. Tone wise this guitar sounds like your typical bright fender, allthough not as bright as a strat say due to the poor bridge and trem design. If i chose to keep this guitar i would have done a couple of what i consider essential mods to make it from a average guitar into a good one: Fit a TOM and upgrade the pups.

I purchased this guitar of evilbay, and original and only owner was only a youg kid, if he set the guitar up i have no idea, but the action was WAY to high when it arrived, and the truss rod also had no tension on it what so ever.After a good set-up and taping fo the bridge post's it improved immensly.Overall finish on the guitar was A1, the neck is still to date the best neck i have every played.

The only part on the guitar that would concern me with live use would be the pick-up selectors.

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Only really got right into playing guitar when i decided to purchase this guitar about 8 months ago,i do not gig or even play very well.I have a number of top quality point to point wired vintage tube amp's.
The Jagstang was my guitar of choice untill i got a Squier Cyclone for 1/4 of the price, i liked the Squier so much more than the Jagstang that i put the Jagstang on eBay within a couple of weeks and sold it.If you are obsessed with the Kurt connection and dont mind paying the extra $ for that, by all meens buy a Jagstang, but you will have to mod it to turn it into a playable guitar,the pick-ups are below average, the bridge is complete junk and the trem is a big annoyance, we all know Kurts were far from stock.The pick-up's are way better in the Squier, the pick up selector is way better placed and more reliable, the only thing the Jagstang had over the Squier was a killer neck.Squier stays in tune, has better tone and sustain with the strat trem than even a modded Jagstang could ever dream about. In short if i could go back in time to before i purchased the Jagstang i would just buy a Squier, throw a couple of hundred into some new pick-ups and harware and have a better guitar than the Jagstang could ever dream of being.Stock the Jagtsang is nothing special,if you care about your playing more than your image save a few hundred and get a Squier.I was happy when i sold this guitar for what it cost me.

I dont know what year it was made but was crafted in japan. I recently baught it off ebay in mint condition color sonic blue, absolutley bautiful. The first thing i was intreaged by was the georgeous neck and the headstock it is so well made. the neck is very
smoothe but very thin that can mess me up when playing lead but im mainly for rythemest anyways so im arsed. I gave this baby a 10 because it just has so much character.

Well let me first start off by saying, if you are a heavy metal player or some shreader then you can forget it. The jag-stang is definately a rythem/slow lead guitar and is made purely for punk or grunge and nirvana imitations. It has the perfect sound for my style which is very nirvana influenced but due to my crappy Amp i cant really get a perfect sound from it.

When i picked up the guitar and played it for the first time the action was quite low just perfect for me, not so sure if it was factory set up though. the finnish was beautiful no floors here. there is a little bit of fretbuzz on the lower frets but its nothing. The bridge is actually better than i thought. I was thinking about putting a tunamattic in there but i cant really see the point, the barrel saddles are just as good.

I have yet to gig with this guitar and i am very confident that she will do me proud on the night. I play it a lot at home for practise and it seems very sturdy and reliable.I personaly dont use strap locks cos i dont need to as for the leathery bits on my strap are very tight and secure. im giving it an 8 due to the fact i havnt gigged with it yet. I am never going to use the whammy bay cos its shit and will probably throw it out of tune instantly.

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I have been playing guitar for over a year now and this is my third electric guitar. I also own a Squire strat my first ever geetar and a Dean Z79 explorer shaped metal guitar (im selling it cos it just dont cut my style. The Fender jagstang is by far my current favourite guitar she plays well when standing and playing and the ballance is perfect I just absolutly love this guitar if anything ever happened to it i would hang my self. FENDER SHOULD REISSUE THESE GUITARS THEY ARE AWSOME AND THE COMPATITION MUSTANG.

2003 (maybe 2004?) Japan model. Everyone else has put all the specs and stuff! The neck is gorgeous, the bridge is a bit tricky - not the easiest guitar to re-string. Obviously looks great, but looks arent everything. Came with a gig bag which i would like to replace with a hardcase but i'll have to spend a fortune on a Fender one that will fit the damn thing in!

Don't really play a massive range of music styles but used it for the 'Nirvana Immitation' years when i was mid-teens but play very different stuff now; sort of a poor mans Mogwai with more lyrics. Didn't have any influence or guidance in terms of sound when i got this and have only really in the last year or two learnt a thing or two about what sound i like/where to get it from. Have a Fender Classic 60's Telecaster (Mexican) in the post which, after actually testing it before buying, is much more what i am after.

Not a guru, but obviously the pickups are a bit lame on the Jagstang - i like a kinda bridge twanginess, which is lucky because thats roughly the only sound you can get out of this guitar and even then its not very defined or overly pleasing. My fault but still not really sure on what configuration to set the pickup switches to get oposite sounds, but this is more likely to be the limitation of tones the guitar offers.

Went to Uni and mingled with people who have taught me a thing or two about sounds and guitars so have increasingly got frustrated with my Jagstang. Don't get me wrong, i'll always love it and would never sell it (girls love the look of it :P) but ever since i picked up my friends Strat and actually played a great sounding guitar ive been looking for a guitar that actually makes me happy and satisfies me in terms of sound. As i said, that one is ariving next week! Yey!

Dunno wether 5 for sound is too harsh - its just too limited and doesnt nearly have the "wow" factor that you should at least have a little of for #300

Again, not an expert, but rfom stuff ive read and everything its clear that Fender have just thrown it together so its not a 'great' at all. I love the neck (love rosework fingerboard and the finish it has - my very first guitar, a squier bullet of some sort, had this neck - weird to say its an appaling guitar - so have been in love with these fender necks ever since that)and the frets are good. Have quite small hands but i dont really think it matters. Remember it took a little while to adjust to the mini frets, but soon got used to them! Makes me smile when my friend with the Strat has a play on it and is a bit confused why his fingers are a bit out of place!

Looks and feel wise its great - comfortable to play and everything. I dont have a clue what to do to it but someone said once you "set it up properly" it sounds and plays a bit better?! The bridge is a bit annoying - its ok now but in the early days i had to get the alan key out every time i played it and raise the bridge to stop the strings buzzing and the action is a bit dodgey. My highest pitch E-string goes out of tune the when i play the octave - apparently i can sort that out but dont know how!

If i had a bit of spare cash i'd defiantely replace the pickups - had some suggestions what to get but thats personal really! A bit paranoid that the jagstang would only fit a certain pickup as it is a unique shape but will have to chck that out. Im sure it would be a great guitar if you got it all sorted and setup like you yourself want it. Wont have the money or chance to do that in the near future though sadly!

Has been my primary guitar for practise, gigs and studio for a good few years, not that i have a choice! Only broke one string on it live so had to borrow someone elses guitar! Its niec and heavy, the same if not heavier than a standard telecaster - the is good cause you know its not gonna nsap or anything if you give it a good thrashing. Its great for staying in tune, even if you give it hell a few times during your set as i do. Few problems on the tuning front although i do have a tuner pedal, as everyone who plays live should, so im sorted anyway.

The finish hasnt faded at all - a few marks on the back from belt buckles but no chips yet. Never had a problem with strap buttons although im cursed for my straps jumping of the guitar whenever they feel like it but about a year ago i solved that by taking two of the little red rubber ring things on Grolsch bottles and slipping then on the strap buttons over the strap and they work perfectly to keep your strap on!

Never got intouch with anyone about my little questions, and nothing major has happened to it to make me need to get in touch with anyone.

It looks great - and i will always keep it and be in love with it to look at so im not gonna ditch it or anything when my telecaster comes. Being really honest if i could turn back time to when i was shopping for this guitar i would have tried to find a mustang instead as they look pretty much just as good but although someone i know has one i have never played on it - im sure it sounds a lot better than the jagstang though. Then again im pretty sure the price difference is a bit too much.

I would be absolutley gutted if anything happend to my jagstang i.e it got broke or stolen, but im pretty sure i wouldnt replace it. Its insured so i would get the money to simply replace it, but id be sooo tempted to get a mustang or another fender model instead.

So, the jagstang looks amazing, absolutley gorgeous and cool as funk - BUT, the sound lacks variation and there are a number of potential probems with the bridge and action which are just annoying really when youve forked out a load of cash for a guitar!

Bought it the first day it was available in Montreal( mid 90 ).. Sonic blue..
The vibrato bar is way too high so i dont use it... pretty smooth vibrato but not my style of playing.
I love the neck with their vintage frets.. but they wear rapidly for this kind of playing

I play extremely loud music, grungy naturally..
I love the pickups which are perfectly designed for Nirvana style
Incredible thin sound .... on phase mode wow..
The bridge pickup tested at 8.6 when cold...
THe neck pickup looks like a Texas specail to me..
This guitar is not noisy at all....
I use a mid 90 Fender Stage 112 160 w with a 4x10 Tweed Cabinet...which is powered by the stage 112 too..
Run Ds-1, Hm-2, Tech-21 i love this fuzz...
Sounds incredibly Loud and with good definition... a rare trait
This guitar delivers well through my amp which is quite good sounding...

Nice neck
Body not perfectly routed
Nice paint but should have been Aqua Seafoam

Soft basswood body ...soooo.....
Repaired the humbucker (solder) due to abuse with my palm..

Suits my style but more of a specialty guitar..
This is Real punk guitar designed by a real Punk which is not designed to be accepted by popular mass. Thanks for this guitar to exist...

This guitar should have a painted peghead...
And shell pink.

I've got a 2k4, sonic blue, stock, reissue Jag-Stang. 22 vintage size frets (I love these frets!) on a maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard. The neck has the awsome small 24" scale which my small hands love. The body is basswood, which was surprizingly heavier than I first expected. It only has two pickups. A special design humbucker in the bridge meant to copy the dimarzio pickup on Kurt's original and a Vintage Strat single coil in the neck position as they don't use Texas Specials on Japanese guitars (Kurt's Custom shop Jag-Stang had a Texas Specail). Its got a very simple control configuration that yields a very versitile range of tones: one master volume knob, one master tone knob (both situated on a very cool looking control plate), and two 3-way slide switches; one for each pickup. The first slide switch controls the bridge humbucker and the positions are: on, off, on. The second slide switch controls a fender Vintage Strat single coil in the neck postition and the positions are: on, off, out of phase. Vintage style tuners, which hold their tuning well, so long as you take care of them. The bridge stays in tune well as long as you never use the tremelo, but if you do, it better have been an intentinal excuse to go off and make noise or other avant-garde piece as you will no longer be in anything close to in tune. While it may be a horible bridge design, it is one of the main reasons for this guitars unique tone and is absolutely essential if you are after that "Cobain" tone.
Came with a gig bag, which I replaced w/ a hard case as soon as I could find one that fit the guitar. WORD OF CAUTION: to anyone who wishes to purchase this guitar, be prepared to spend a long time searching for a hard case as most guitar cases wont fit this guitar's oddly shaped body. Bass cases are also way too large, so you can't take that route out. Your best bet is to get the Fender case for the Jag-Stang (which you still have to CRAM, and I do mean CRAM, the guitar in to fit it).

I play alot of blues, rock, and punk type styles. It suits all these styles well. The out of phase single coil neck with the bridge humbucker yields a wonderfully thin sound that is great for Greatful Deadish jams or avant-garde/experimental tunes. It's a very unique tone to play with. I play mostly through a Fender Twin Reverb reissue, and I use all settings quite regularly. This guitar is definatly NOT a metal type guitar at all. If you play metal, you will not enjoy this guitar's sound at all. It's very bright and punchy, with a bit of growl in the humbucker.

The setup on mine was great right out of the box. Very low action, perfect intonation, had to adjust pickup height to my liking, but thats to be expected. I suggest switching the standard strap knobs with strap-locks as I don't trust standard strap knobs at all. I've had the guitar for almost six months and put the same guage strings on it that it shiped with and intonation is still right where it should be. No truss rod issues, or neck bows of any kind. I've heard many accounts of paint chipping off easily on the Jag-stang, but something tells me this happens only with the original nineties issue of the guitar, as mine has been accidentally dropped and has clipped a few corners and still has a pristine paint job w/o any scratches or wood showing.

I really cant comment here as I have yet to gig with it. It's the guitar I baby, and it only travels with me to the studio. I never play without a backup as no audience likes waiting for you to fix a string. But it seems like a very solid guitar, like most Fenders are known to be.

it's apparently limited lifetime warranty, so thats a very good thing. I doubt I will have to ever deal with Fender as all my other Fenders have survived much use and abuse.

Ive been playing about six years and am a complete gear nut. I own mostly fender gear as it is reliable and for the most part, inexpensive. The quality vs. the price is incomparable to other brands on the market today.
I bought this guitar b/c my mustang had been stolen and wanted to see how similar/different this guitar was to my mustang. I miss my mustang. I do love this guitar, but my mustang is my most favorite guitar I have owned to date. I am still fervently hunting the thief of my mustang and would do the same to anyone who would dare steal my Jag-stang. I would definatly buy another one if stolen, but only if it came up cheaper than another competition blue mustang. I love everything about the Jag-stang except for the lack of rib and arm contours. Even w/o the contours though, it is surprizingly comfortable, thanks to its shape which almost goes just under your rib cage. The body shape also has a balance that is as close to perfect as I have found on any guitar. When on a strap, it balances itself to the perfect angle to your arm and hand.
This guitar is perfect for the indie guitarist with small hands, who focuses mostly on chords and progressions, and who doesn't want a death metal sound or anything super heavy like that. It also would not suit a shredder-type at all. So if "Eruption" is part of your ruitine, pass on this one. Luckily, I'm not a shredder, I'm not into playing anything super heavy sounding, have small hands, and am into mostly indie type stuff, so this guitar suits me perfectly (other than my stolen competition Mustang floating around somewhere in the world...) For Me personally, it's a ten, but I know that for most other people it will be less than perfect to thier needs, so I give it a eight here to compensate.

I have a Fiesta Red Japan made model with the Serial starting with "U" so I have dated it to either late 1995 or early 1996. Regardless, since Kurt only developed it in 1993 and Fender only had the Sonic Blue ready for him to test, he only played it a couple of times people! It wasn't like he slept with the damned thing. Anyway, Fender was working on a Fiesta Red in 1994 for Kurt to test when they learned of his death. So, with this, I think I have one of the original ones, at least original as you can get from Japan. It's got all of the original factory features as well (take this as you will Fender lovers, I think the pickups suck). I have since gotten a hard shell for it, I think it originally came in a pretty flimsy gig bag. The damned tuning pegs are crap and I have had a few guitar doctors check it out to make sure it wasn't something that I was doing, and they all said its a terrible mix of guitars. I agree. The premise was very noble indeed, especially if you have small hands and fingers but if that is the only reason you get one then I recomend going for a regular Mustang. Anyhow, I have since had it prepared for storage because playing the damned thing frustrates me so much that I can't get through one song without getting pissed at the guitar. So, I probably ought to sell it since it is one of the early ones but all those guitar gurus around me tell me to hold onto it, especially since they made some minor modifications and re-released them. I haven't seen any of the new re-issues but from what I hear they are 100 times better than the first ones. I ran into a 2000 Sonic Blue just yesterday at the guitar shop, plugged it in and the action on it was terrible. Someone probably just strung it wrong. Oh yeah, for those who say that I hate it because I play out of the wrong amp---WRONG!--I have had this thing plugged into over 20 different amps, even Fender tube amps, and it just doesn't get it done. Sorry. Maybe it's my guitar, maybe they shouldn't have made them, unfinished (without Kurt's comments--from what I hear he had the same problems that I have). Oh well. I'll be as nice as I can and give it a 6 or 6.5

See above. You have to have one hell of a head or at least a decent box to get this thing to rock. Amps have no effect, at least in my experience with this year jag-stang

Without sounding too harsh, there is a good thing about the pickups and that is that they are easy as hell to change and adjust, same way with the bridge, I think Kurt had that in mind. The strings are easy to change as well. The guitar is as good as it can be as far as manufacturing. It wasn't the factory problem, it was the overzealous decision makers at Fender to push out a guitar just because they could sell it to any moron kid who worshiped Kurt Cobain. They pushed out an unfinished guitar and you can really tell. Maybe I ought to embrace this, maybe it is part of its charm and distinction.

Hell no I would never use this at a gig, especially without backup. One of my favorite guitars is a cheap little 1992 Washburn, which I would rather play 9 out of 10 times over this Fender JAg-STang. As far as the durability it's very good and very strong. I have had no problems with it falling apart or parts breaking. I have played it enough in jams and practice that it will prove to last, however, as I have said, I am ready to put this thing to bed and maybe one day my kids or grandkids will find it in the attic and maybe someone will pay them for it. If not, it will rest in peace but I don't worry that it will fall apart.

The warranty is long expired. I never had to use it. The only interaction with Fender that I had concerning the guitar was that I called them once, in 1998 or 99 and voiced the complains that I have stated above. But, since I was only 21 back then and had high expecations for this guitar, I wasn't as nice or as clean as I have been here. Off the record, the poor guy who had to sit through my rampage about this axe ended up agreeing with me and said that his experience with them was similar. I have been on numerous web-sites and have found very little negative response, why? Is everyone so afraid that Kurt might have not made the perfect guitar? Well, he didn't. And to my knowledge, and when I saw Nirvana in 1993 in Akron, Ohio for the In Utero tour with the Meat Pupets (it was Halloween eve and Kurt came out on stage dressed as Barney the dinosaur) all he played was his collection of Mustangs.

If it were stolen or lost I would try to find the guy and really let him have it, not because I would miss the guitar or would die because it was gone, but simply because of all the crap that guitar has put me through I am going to be the one to decide its fate, not some punk thief. If it is to be destroyed, I must be the one to pull the sleg hammer down. There is nothing you can do or ask about this guitar. You have to know that an idea like this hybrid of two classics (the Mustang and Jaguar) is a neat idea but theoretically impossible. If you didn't figure it out by now, I am going to start to collect Mustangs. The Mustang is the best Fender and in the top three of my collection. Like I said, surprisingly that cheap Washburn is a hell of a guitar.

2003 model sonic blue made in japan
22 frets(i tink), very solid and versitile body
has volume, tone and a 3 way selector switch for each pickup
comes with fender floating tremelo
came with a padded fender gig back and more strings :D
has bass style tuning pegs( stay in tune to the max :P) the neck is thin and feels like so much fucking quality.
single coil in the neck and humbucker in the bridge!!
i bought this to be different im sick of seeing all these rich boys who think they can play guitar with their les pauls and strats ( pisses me off so much)

My band , we play grunk(grungy punk)and i think it suits our style like hellll( beautiful sound love this thing)

im using a PA system but im gettin a tube amp or a valve amp i use a boss ds2 and a ehx small clone full chorus pedal.
no problems with the sound of this

The guitar was set up by the shop really well , dont know why all these fuckers are whining about the tuning issues(WHAT FUCKIN TUNING ISSUES-these people must be usin the tremelo like fuck)should just shut up.
it had no flaws and the body is nice!!

i replaced the strap buttons with locks but id do this on any guitar anyway :P safety first.
I can see this guitar lasting me an ageeeee
id deffo gig it without a backup no problem i can resting this guitar in 2 mins without a string winder so i wouldnt waste time if i snapped a string!

never delt with fender but it has a 10 year warranty

ive been playin a yeer, and i own a start copy, tanglewood i think and the jagstang wipes the floor with it ,
i have played a gibson les paul and jagstang kicks its ass by milesss.

i wish it had more colour variety thats all :D

Sonic Blue 2004 Jagstang. I like the features on it, the vibrato is really cool. The pickup selectors are a little odd, but overall it's a really well done guitar. The volume/tone knobs are kind of ugly, but those can be replaced. ^ ^ Came with a gig-bag, which was nice. Got the retailer to knock off 60 or so bucks, so it cost me a nice 699.00 (CDN).

It his a very full sound, probably because It's made of basswood. It can have a bit of a twang, but by adjusting the tone you can get an awesome sound. However, it does have a bit of a buzz from the low E string. I'd say it's perfect for the grunge sound, which is what I'm into right now.

The guitar has a very nice finish. Everything is very well done.. Can't find a single dent on the guitar.

This guitar is built incredibly solid. It could probably take several strikes against the ground from Kurt. :p I can see this guitar lasting a loooong time. Unless a string broke, I can't see any reason for a back-up guitar.. After playing with this guitar for a while, I must say the finish looks just as good as when I first got it. The reliability and durability that this guitar his is definitely the best feature it's got.

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I've been playing for almost 2 years, and have played on several different guitars in that time. My old guitar was a Baracuda Strat copy, and that thing doesn't even compare. :p I've also played on some other nice guitars, some twice as expensive, and they play as well as this one, but feel less solid. For the relatively cheap cost, I'd say I'm going to be playing this guitar for a loong time, or at least until something as unique looking as this one comes along and catches my eye.

Pretty standard Fender feattures. The red glossy body is nice but the finish shatters like glass when its knocked. Doesnt stand up. A good feature to put in would be a kickstand.

Real nice for twangy sounds and sloppy post rock. The neck pickup is amazing, fat when clean and rough as hell with the filth. The bridge 'bucker IS rubbish though.The switches give lots of variety but the tones are difficult to control with the muddy tone knob.

Plays real well with big fat 0.12 strings. All pretty good, but the finish is way too delicate. Ive replaced my nut once as it broke. Plays nicely all along the neck and its got a nice deep neck with isnt too wide.

THis guitar is weak and the switches are shite. Not only do the crackle and buzz but they get punched through the body when strumming a little hard and the sharp edges have cut up the side of my hand. I know a couple more Jagstang owners and they have all had problems with the switches. Plus the horn strap button just fell out the body leaving it with a loose fit. The tuning on mine is pretty sound though...

Repair is not easy cos its a little bit differnent eg:the switches and fiding replacements

I love this guitar for its easy neck and unique sound. Its makes you play in a certain way.

2003 Sonic Blue. Bought Used but still had the shrink wrap on the pickguard.

Okay, all of you who bitch about the pickups sound like crap- look at the amps you are using! No wonder. Get a real damn amp with tubes! Run mine through a 1969 Fender Deluxe Reverb and it kick royal fucking ass! The humbucker growls a deep gritty tone (thin???) and the single vintage coil sounds just like a Strat or Mustang coil should. So quite your bitching, can those stupid Crate pieces of shit and get a real goddamn amp you wimps!!! Then your Jag-Stang will sound great. Get it dumbasses???

Flawless. The CIJ are probably better thant the MIA Fenders!

Gig with it all the time!!! It Rocks like a bastard!! Blow a fricking Les Pauls ass across town buddy!!!

Haven't needed any.

This is probably one of the most under-rated guitars of all time. The only reason a bunch of people don't like it is that they think you want to be a Kurt Cobain wannabe. Obviously, they are morons with a successfull lobotomy operation! Let's see, the Jag-Stang came from the 1962 Jaguar and 1964 Mustang. Hmmm, a little before Kurt's time right? So, Kurt had the taste to choose something different than a goddamn Strat that every momma's boy plays or panty waist Les Paul wimp. He loved the Mustang (I have 2!) and Jag (got a '64 Red one). However, both could use a little more grunt. The Humbucker in his custom Mustangs and Jags set the design for the Jag-Stang. So, the sound he copped was really from two historic vintage guitars that you don't see every dumbass out there playing!!!

The other bitch you mamma's boys need to get over is the Dynamic Vibrato and tuning issue. Here's the deal girlie-men- take the damn whammy bar off, and use your palm on the bridge! That is what Kurt did and I do it. You get the nice vibrato and it NEVER EVER EVER goes out of tune! I use this on both my Mustangs and the Jag-Stang. You don't have to be a pussy and lock the bridge down for Chris-sake! Learn to play the goddamn instrument you woosies!! So there.

So if guys like Buddy Rogers and other wanna chuck ther Jag-Stangs, send'em my way. I will take them all off your hands!! The guitar looks like it would not be comfortable to play, but it really is the way it hangs on the strap. I thought I would hate the fact it is not contoured like the later Mustangs and Strats, but that doesn't bother me at all. Lemmee tell you one more thing- for Friggin Blues, this axe rocks ass- and hard you motha-fuckas!! So start appreciating what I think will be a definite classic guitar someday.

Now, you have been set straight!!!!

first thanx to mr. kirt cobain for making the best guitar any one has ever made! sence kirt is the best guitar plyer of all time its only right that he should make the best guitar ever. my dad has a startocaster from the early 1940s and is wirth a lot of $ but this jagstang blows it rite away. ill never play a nother guitar.kirt is a guitar genuis!

it sounds fcking AWSOME! way better than my buddies 65 les paul wich is a wimp ass tone. the jagstang is a MANS tone! im amazed that kirt found time in his buzy scedule to make so many great guitars! i see them evrywhere! the man nows tone and the man nows how to biuld a guitar!

fit like a glove! pickups are AWSOME i dont now what evry one is biching about - kirt made GREAT pickups! hes a genuis. he nows his shit!

i havnt played live. will start soon. if it can stand kirt playing it on stage then it can stand N E one playing it on stage!

i wont never need them. this guitar will NEVER dye!

im not some snot nowsed 15 yer old kid thats trying to be something that thay are not. ive been around with YEARS of ixpeereance. im 19 and played for 5 whole years. so you now that i now what im talking about. if you are not awere of kirts genuis than you woodnt be here reading about his guitar.kirts the best.his guitar is the best! nice to hav something made buy his one hands.

Take a look at the other reviews.
Nothing special here.
The switches aren't easy to handle during playing.

The pick-up are pretty bad.
Maybe it would sound a little better if got them replaced. I never replaced them because i dislike the vibrato-bridge as well and i don't think this guitar will ever suit my needs.
Got myself a Gibson Les Paul now, don't even wan't to use my Jagstang for backup.

The action was pretty bad as well, can't get a decent solo out of this one. But for rythem i think it's ok....don't go past the tenth fret.

Don't really know, didn't use it much.

Don't know

Advice: Don't buy a Jagstang. Ain't worth the money, unless you want to do KC-imitations (just the looks, not the sound).
I bought it because I was obsessed by Nirvana at that time, but the guitar is just crap.....waiste of money.

I just want to clear something up about the pickups. KURT COBAIN'S JAGSTANG DID NOT HAVE A DIMARZIO SUPER DISTORTION PICKUP BY THE BRIDGE. Kurt's guitar had a DiMarzio H-3. Many people that know this can't find the H-3, and the reason is that DiMarzio makes the pickup exclusively for Fender and neither of them will sell it (except fender using it in their guitars). If your desperate enough you might be able to find some cheap used guitar with that pickup in it but if not you can use the super distortion or the fender copy of the H-3 that's in the jagstang.

You know what it's got stock. Mine is stock. Mine is Red. Mine is the 96' model. I bought this bastard in 98' at a Pawn Shop for $250 and I'm happy with it. The Blue one I bought at a music store for $600 and I hated it so I sold it. I loved the color but you can't play the color. The color doesn't mean it's not a lemon just because it isn't yellow. So I sold it. When I seen the one I have now, I played it at the Pawn Shop and it was different. I sounded different. It played different. The sound is not the best by far but for the price and the difference I felt in it, I bought it. I will change the pickups one day but not now. I have other irons in the fire and this isn't my main guitar or even my backup. Hell, it's not even my backup's backup.

You've read the review. Yeah, it's true. The stock pickups pretty much suck but it's still a fun little bastard to have around. Just change the pickups if you're that serious about the 'Cobain' way of doing it. Super Distortion in the bridge and Texas Special in the Neck. Presto.

Action if pretty cheesy to be honest, esp for playing up high on the neck. If you use the whammy bar you might as well just fuck off for the rest of the diddy coz' you're outta tune. But then again, alot of the shit you're playing probably sounds good either way whether you're in tune or not because I bet you're just fiddling around in front of a busted amp making feedback jackoff tones. A lot of fun I know but it won't get you laid unless you're playing for a chick named Pandy Fackler.

I wouldn't use this guitar for a main axe. Break it out for the last song. You know the one I'm talking about. Endless Nameless.

Fug em'.

If you were ever into the 'school of grunge' or post punk bullshit, buy this fucker. Run out and get a reissue or hop onto the ebay bus and get an original. Yeah I love playing that shit myself so I'll quit talking trash.

The Fender Jag-Stang is a japan-made beauty. In terms of controls, we have trick looking volume and tone knobs straight off the Fender jazz bass. Even better are the three-way pick-up selectors above each pick-up, which allow you to put them Off, On, or out of phase. A lot of the fun of having this guitar involves these switches, as the sheer number of tones you can get is a science in itself.
The headstock is a very cool looking 60's/70's chunky headstock which gives the guitar a classic Fender look. Added to this, we have vintage styled Fender/Ping machineheads. Very snazzy indeed, and they hold their tune for a long time, which is also a bonus.
As for the neck, we have a maple C-shaped neck with a rosemary fingerboard and vintage styled frets. The inlays are simple but classy circular jobs. The feel of the neck is, for want of a better word, spot on. The radius is thin, but not so thin that you don't have anything to grip. All of the frets can be accessed easily and the guitar is balanced enough not to make removing your fretting hand a danger. Lovely.
Moving down the guitar, we have the pick-ups. While I'm not sure what type they are, Fender have a reputation for engineering great pick-ups at any price, and this is no exception. They have a bright, rich, thin sound that cuts through any mix.
The body itself is great too. While this isn't exactly the purpose of the guitar, no-one wants their axe to look like a piece of driftwood and this certainly doesn't. What we do have, however, is a slab of basswood which sounds beautiful even when unplugged. The body is actually relatively quite small which is nice for the smaller guitarist to feel more proportionate to their axe.
The Fender Dynamic Vibrato bridge is my only slight niggle. On it's own, it does it's job and holds your strings nicely, while maintaining a nice long sustain. However, when you start using the tremolo bar (which is optional) you'll find it putting your strings out of tune stunningly quickly.
Finally, the guitar comes with two nice extras: A gig-bag and some 'Kurt Cobain memorabilia'. The gig bag is the standard functional Fender affair that holds your guitar and some other stuff besides. Nice. On getting my guitar home, I realised a lack of 'Kurt Cobain memorabilia'. On checking with the store about this, it turned out the this actually meant a little picture of the original Jag-Stang drawing that was hanging from the machineheads by some string. Cute.

As a player, I use many different styles in my playing. A bit of rock, a hefty dollop of funk, some acoustic and a smidge of punk. I wasn't nearly expecting the Jag-Stang to cope with all this. If I'd have expected that, I'd have bought a Telecaster. So with a great deal of suprise, I found the guitar toppling all of the styles I usually play, and a few more besides. This really is a very versitile guitar. I ran it through a Jim Dunlop crybaby wah wah to a Crate GX-15 practice amp.
"But this was Kurt Cobain's guitar! It was meant for grunge!" It sure was, so it'd be cruel not to pay homage to Nirvana. Suffice to say, it took mere seconds to nail the distictive tone that made Smells Like Teen Spirit such a huge hit.

I inspected my guitar thoroughly after I go it. Nothing. No defects, no scratches, nowt. The finish is immaculate, which is a testament to the care that is taken at Fender to set the guitar up.

I haven't yet gigged my Jag-Stang, but a number of band practices have shown that this guitar is very reliable and will be for a long long time. So far (after these practices), no part of the guitar is yet showing any signs of wear or tear. I'm looking forward to gigging this guitar because I believe that as long as it's set-up right) it'll withstand it nicely.

I haven't dealt with this side yet so I can't really comment.

In my 3 or so years of guitaring, I have owned 4 other guitars, and none of then are nearly as good as this one. I'd recommend anyone to at least try this guitar.

Hey George Martin, the one talking about the Dimarzio and vintage Fender pups, unless you put those in, you only THINK you are using those pups. Kurt's Jag-Stang had a Dimarzio Super Distortion in the bridge position and a Fender Texas Special in the neck position. So unless you put these in yourself, you're pretty tone deaf unless the Fender pickups are actually any good which usually, they're not on the foreign models (i have a MIJ Mustang) Have a nice day.

1996 LH Jagstang, 1 volume/1 tone control, 2-3 way pickup selector switches. Stock pickups and tuners. Fender dynamic vibrato bridge. Green with rosewood fretboard. Body shape and small neck make for comfortable playing for me. Changed pickup switches in 04. Pots are loose. Will probably change them out this summer.

Play 70's/80's rock and some older surf tunes through Peavey Classic 50 with standard tuning. NO FX other than reverb. Get a very nice bright sound with presence at 8 or 9, bass7/mid5/treble8. Good for light to moderate crunch. Play on the humbucker only (back position). Vibrato bar stays in the case. The pickup selectors give a good variety of sounds, I just haven't figured out what the heck to use them in.

Bought used (and abused). Couldn't get sound out of it in the store (other than hum). Neck was straight, so I bought it cheap as a project. Original(?) wiring was a butcher job, looked like it had been done with a torch. so I rewired it from the ground up. Wrapped electrical tape around bridge posts to stop it from moving around. Setting the intonation is next to impossible without doing this. Raised the action a bit, dropped the pickups, and now I have a perfectly playable guitar.

Seems solid and generally plays well enough. Have to be careful when hard strumming, as I tend to hit the volume knob. It will occasionally go out of tune when bending. Definitely requires a backup.

Never dealt with Fender directly.

I've been playing for 4 years. This was my second guitar, bought about 6 months after I'd started, on advice from a guitar playing friend (hey, it's a left hand Japanese Fender. You'll never find another one that cheap). I appreciate the simplicity of the controls, and how comfortable it is to play. Hate the bridge. Love the sound. Since purchase, I've bought an Epiphone LP, older Charvel, Stratocaster and Ibanez RG. Keep coming back to the Jagstang though...

This is the 2003 model of the Jag-Stang, made in Japan. It's got the two 3-way switches, one for each pickup. Let's see....basswood body, kinda shaped like an old Mustang. The tuners are the Fender, vintage style (kluson tuners), which are decent enough. The only thing I don't really like, features-wise is the Fender Dymanic Vibrato bridge. It stays in tune fine until you try to use the whammy bar, then it's instantly way out of tune. I want to just have mine locked down. It's got a really cool neck, 24" neck scale, 22 thin frets (I've heard people say medium, but the tag that comes with the guitar says thin), and I think it's rosewood on the fretboard. It came with a gig bag, but I bought a case for it right away.

I pretty much play anything, including Nirvana. I have a 60 watt Crate amp and it sounds fine. I find that the single coil is really noisy however, and the humbucker sounds a bit thin (I think nearly every other review says the same thing). It does get a great variety of sounds, from trebly and thin, to reasonably full and clean. The single coil has a great great tone under the buzz, however.

The set-up when I originally bought it was awful, but the store I bought it from did a free action/set-up job and it's fine now. The pickups are adjusted fine. The bridge had a loose screw, which was an intonation nightmare, but the set-up job fixed that too. I thought the action was a bit too low, as well. After a good set-up job, this guitar plays phenominally! The finish is a bit thin but it's still beautiful. Like I said, after a good set-up job, this guitar feels great!

The hardware on this guitar was a reason I bought this. The switches are great and the pickup switching system is just perfect and out of the way (unlike Strats, which I always seem to hit while I play). The finish seems a bit thin, but so far, I've had no dings or anything, and I'm a rough player. The only problem this guitar has is probably with its bridge system. After more than an hour of playing, it's a bit out of tune. This guitar is something that could withstand playing an hour gig, with no backup, but I don't see Bruce Springsteen playing it during one of his three and a half hour marathons of a show.

Never had to deal with Fender, yet. The music store I bought it from is great though, and it was under warranty.

Despite giving it mostly 8's across the board, this guitar is a 9 overall because it's got a lot of bang for the buck. It's light but still feels very solid. The neck is great, and the switches and the overall look of the guitar is perfect. I'm probably going to change the pickups, probably to a Fender Vintage Noiseless and a Duncan JB, and try to lock down the bridge. It might seem strange to give this a 9 when it could stand modifications, but the look and feel of this guitar are perfect. So remember, after a good set-up job and the customizations of your choice, you have a great guitar (call me a moron, but I like it more than a Strat).

First year out.
You know the specs

Rip out the stock pickups and bus some new ones because fender put crap in this guitar

Set up suckef when i got it. paid 150 bucks. looks like some one stomped on it

ok at home but never gig this guitar. unless you can come back from the dead

i hate fenders cstomer support.

playing for 13 years. bought the gutar because it was cheep at the time. i would not pay over 200 bucks for this tird. all that pay over 200 are stupid. i dont knw why fender put this back out. oh i know they wanted more stupid people to buy this hunk of crap. there is a reason why kurt killed him self and this guitar may be one of the reasons. buy a mustand or a jaguar if you want a good guitar

2003 model, 22 frets, solid body laminated top, two pickup switchs, same as mustang, and a volume and tone nob, it has one single coil and one humbucker, passive electronics, im not real sure on the wood, but from the other reviews i believe that its basswood, people say that the finish is thin, but it seems to me that its about the average thickness, it has a floating bridge, each string is on a seperate drum and they can move up and down, gives it a very distinct sound, the tailpiece is a dynamic fender vibrato, it strings weird, you go backwards and then it rolls around the bottom of it, i wouldnt suggest using it though, due to the fact that it goes out of tune, quite quickly if you do, the neck is the old "C" neck copied from the mustang, perfect neck in my opinion, very comfortable and fits in your hand perfectly, mine came with a gig bag, but i bought a hardshell case for it, also its alot thicker than i thought it would be, about an inch and a half thick i think, about the same as a jaguar

like most of the people that buy this guitar, i mostly play grunge type stuff, but i also play metal, punk, old rock, just about everything, this guitar works great for all of them, it has a very clean sound, and when put with a distortion pedal sounds very heavy, all around good sound for probably any type of music, i play through a peavy renown 450 watt amp 2x12, but i made another 2x12 cab and run it through that too, sounds excellent, the humbucker gives it a very warm sound, the single coil give its a very bright sound when you put them together you get a mix but its usually warm, the only problem i have, is the bridge, sometimes the independent saddles vibrate together and buzz a little, you only notice it when you play it unplugged, and thats just barely, if you wanted to i could see someone changing the pickups, im going to keep mine original, but i could see someone changing them

when i first got this guitar the action was perfect, just about as low as you can get it, i love it so much, its the perfect action, but i like my action low as possible, pickups were perfect when i got it, i've never seen a single coil like this one though, it just looks weird, its not bad i've just never seen one like it before, bridge was adjusted before i got it, all the strings were adjusted for heighth i guess at fender not sure, pretty small fretwire i guess, not horribly small but smaller than most, i like it that way though, all the switches are silent during switching no popping, the tone nob doesnt pop you can switch back and forth all day and not get a pop out of your amp

it definatly stands live playing, aggressive playing, the only problem i might see it having are bridge problems because its pretty complex but i wouldnt count on it, seems pretty sturdy, the finish seems pretty sturdy it probably wound scratch any easier than any other fender guitar, because its the same paint and same technique, strap buttons seem pretty solid but im going to replace them with strap locks just because i always have, sense of security i guess, i depend on it alot, i would gig without a backup, with no problems

never dealt with fender so i dont know

ive been playing for probably about 3 years, have owned many guitars, around 10 i guess, this by far is the best ive ever had you get what you pay for, they should charge more, your getting a real discount for what you pay for, no problems with this guitar yet, watch that jinx me and it explode when i go and pick it up, if it were stolen i would cry for about 10 1/2 hours then go buy a new one, love it because it just looks so damn cool, love the sound, the only part i dont like about it is probably the bridge but its not that bad, i will probably change it with a tune-o-matic then there will be no problems, best guitar i ever had, excellent, excellent guitar, go buy one now, it does kurt cobains name good, r.i.p kurt

It was made in 2003 in Japan. 22 frets. Solid body, laminated top. 1 volume knob, 1 tone. 2 pickup selector switches. S/H pickup configuration. Basswood body. Maple neck with rosewood fingerboard. Sonic Blue finish. Vintage tuners. Dynamic vibrato. Came with a deluxe gig bag.

I play a lot of grunge-style music and it's great for that. I play some quiet melodic songs and it's not too good for that. I use a Marshall MG practice amp. I usually play the Jag-Stang with both pickup selectors down or the bottom one down and the top one in the middle. It has a very bright sound. It's rather tinny with both the switches up. I like the large range of tones you can get.

When I got it the action was terrible. Way too high. But that's really easy to fix. I got it intonated for 15 bucks. Everything else was fine.

This guitar would easily withstand live playing. The finish looks great and I doubt it will wear off. The tuners kind of suck but it doesn't bother me. Even if it did all I would have to do was replace the tuners. I'd always use a backup live though no matter what guitar I owned.

I've dealt with a music store called Schmitt Music Center. They intonated it. They were very friendly but it took them a while to get around to working on it.

I've been playing guitar for about 3 years. I've owned several guitars. This one is my personal favorite. I love it! I'd definately buy this guitar again if it was stolen or something. My favorite thing about this guitar is that it's the coolest looking guitar I've ever seen. The only guitar I find it similar to is the Mustang.

I have an origional Japanese made Fender Jag-Stang.Mine is sonic blue but you can also get them in fiesta red.The Jag-Stangs have maple necks with rose wood fret boards.One thing that is inparticularly nice is that the fret wire is so small, which makes it easier to move your hands up and down the fret board easily.It has the mixed shape of a mustang and a jaguar and has a comforatable feel to it, and it looks cool as hell.

Awesome sound.You can use it for just about any music style, including, of course, The classic Nirvana sound that everyone loves.

The finish on my guitar is in tip top shape.Everything was adjusted, and set up fine.The only trouble is that the little plate behind the neck on the body has a few little bubbles underneath the chrome plating, most likely from rust, but it's easy to replace.

Here's one little problem with the Jag-Stang. The floating tremelo is cool as hell and sounds hella nice; But it knocks the guitar out of tune fairly easily.But it's easy to retune, and would be fine live.It's not like anything will fall off of it.

All in all this is one hell of a guitar that would be great for anyone.It's not too pricey and the re-issue has just been released,but i don't know how good they are.

1996, Japan original version
22 frets
its just a normal Jag-Stang,I think laminated its glossy..., 2 black knobs. no idea.. they are just good pickups, active I think.Basswood body.. Its a Fiesta red body. Tune o matic bridge Ive heard. but has a dynamic vibrato system, Gotoh tuners. Thin dark brown neck, great neck! Nothing included I bought a 70.00 hard case for it and they have me free new strings.

The guitar sounds really "radical". When they say this thing can pack a punch they mean it. Its definately a grunge/punk guitar.. You play it without an amp and it still sounds good, but when you put it onto an amp it plays with this tone that has the bass already in it. Nothing needed for this guitar... Rich sound, alot of variety yes.. Kurt did an amazing job at designing this guitar, as genius he was! I like it so much, but the reason I like it alot is because I went from playing an Affinity Squier strat and it made the humming sound, this one doesn't. I got it in top condition used so...

I did not get it new, so I have no idea... But I got it in top condition as I said and it had a few dings but not very noticible.. I got it and the action had to be raised or something. because the Low E string kept hitting against the pickups when I tryed playing Nirvana's "School". But Guitar Center gladly fixed it, so its fine..

I think it will, I think this guitar is great and has the "Fender quality" with it.. I trust it.. The strap buttons are fine, one was loose but its fine now they fixed it.

I get a 30 day guarantee, but I work with some guitar shops in my area and they will probably fix her if needed.. It is fine.. Guitar Center was extremely helpful and nice, they always are. And the place I get lessons, a national known shop are the same way.

The first guitar instrument I got was a Kingston white cream colored small bass, its a piece of junk. I then got a Squier Affinity,which for being a Fender Squier is a great guitar in some ways, but in others its just "ok". I then got a Squier P bass which is an excellent piece of equipment.. Then yesterday I got this Jag-Stang. I used to play bass for a band then recently changed to playing lead-guitar. I got a Fender Princeton amp last Friday but its on layaway now.. I wish that I could fine Courtney Love's signature Venus guitar, I chose this one because I liked the weird body it has, and that one of the greatest guitarists designed it, (kurt cobain), I knew he would not make a piece of junk so, and if it got stolen I would try to get another one but these originals are hard to come by. Im going to get my name engraved in the chrome plate in the back.

i have a 95 jag-stang, the first year it was mass produced. when i got this guitar i thought it sounded pretty good, of course i was 16 at the time. it looks really cool, but thats about it.

the original pickups that came with it, were weak as all hell. the single coil in the neck position sounded like a pile of dog poo. and the humbucker they threw in it was a cheap piece of crap.

when i got the guitar it buzzed like crazy. the neck didnt really feel that bad, but the set up was just bad all together.

after a few months of serious playing, some of the knobs began to go, and if you would touch the volume knob at all, it would crackel and kill the guitar completely. no sound came out. horrable durability.

never dealt with fender

this would be a great guitar had fender left it the way kurt cobain designed it, they stuck cheap pickups in it when they mass produced it, and used really cheap pots and it seems like left over bridges and necks on the guitars. I personally gave the guitar a make over and replaced the pickups with a p-90 and a vintage strat pickup, and bought a new pickguard and routed the body so the pickups were straight. gave it a new tune-o-matic bridge, and replaced the neck with a hagstrom neck. so nothing is original anymore. I now LOVE this guitar after all the modifications i've done to it. if you want to sink some money into it, you'll have a great axe, otherwise dont bother with this. the original model kurdt cobain designed was much different.

I bought this online for around $380 with a case and strap. Its a 1997 american stang and it rules. Truely one of the best guitars i have ever played. A long and beautifully thin neck easy for playing fast. Not as good as it could be, but still very good.

This works better with an amp. It suits my style well, Rock and metal. The sound is full and very rich. I don''t really like the soft sounds it makes but that is easily fixed by changing the switches. The sounds is not very varied and can pretty much only make one type of music.

When i first got the guitar the controls were very secure but after a few months of playing it, they started to come loose which sucked

Yep this guitar can do live performances. I play with my band almost every month for 2 years and the guitar has still held up. Some drunk dude tried to steal it form me on stage but thats not the guitars fault. I always take backups to gigs but am not sure if i need it as the guitar has on;y failed me once.

Nope never dealt with the company. I don't really know who i bought it from!

I ahve ben playing for 6 years.I own an Acostic guitar.

Bought in 1997, made in Japan. 22 Frets. Basswood body, Maple neck, Rosewood fretboard. Volume, tone, and a three-way selector for both pickups. Single coil at the neck and a humbucker at the bridge. Body is (obviously) a cross between a Jaguar and a Mustang, though it looks more like a Mustang than it does a Jaguar. Dynamic Vibrato bridge. Vintage tuners. Thin neck.

I mostly play indie-rock in the vein of Braid/Hey Mercedes, some hardcore and a little metal. I'm playing this out of a Peavey 100 head, with a couple pedals (Delay, Tremolo, Phaser).

I love this guitar...I have had it for years, and it's my (severely beaten) baby. It's mostly capable of warm, mid-range and bassy tones. Since the humbucker is at the bridge, the treble doesn't have too much bite to it, but it's nice. It sounds perfect for what I play. It's not noisy at all.

Well, it wasn't very well set up when I got it, I had to adjust both the action (I like my action high) and the pickups, but it was nothing too bothersom. Some of the bridge hardware is rusting a bit, but again, I've had this for quite a while, and the B string tuner is getting a bit loose.

Well, I'm in a band that plays out very frequently, and I've been using this guitar without a backup for all four and a half years that we've been together. I'm not gentle with this guitar at all, it has more than it's fair share of gashed, dings, and dents, but this thing has held up like a rock. I throw this thing around, it's been jumped on, stomped on, kicked, and overall just beaten, and it's been holding up great. I've had straplocks on this thing for years, so I don't even really remember how solid or good the original buttons were. The one flaw this guitar has, is the selectors are right in the way of your strumming (if you play fairly aggressively) and the bridge selector has broken once, and was replaced, but unless you duct tape it, the bridge selector turns all sound off when it's in the center position...which is frustrating, but easily remedied.

Had the bridge tone selector repaired once, but it wasn't under warranty, and I didn't get it done through the company, so I can't really give an opinion.

I've been playing for nine years, and I own several other guitars, and this one is my favorite. If it were lost or stolen, I would most definitely buy another. The neck is nice and thin, and very fast, and it gets beautiful warm tones. The one flaw, like I said is the placement of the pickup tone selectors. For the price, this thing is more than worth it. I highly recommend this guitar...

2 awsome pickups , both great sounding , the dimarzio h-3 humbucker is designed for distortion , does alright on clean channel , the vintage strat pickup is not designed for heavy distortion - best used on clean channel , overall both pickups are great , the neck plays great and fast , the fret spacing is perfect , the tuners are awsome and everything else about the guitar is great ( including the bridge ) , i own a fender sonic blue jag-stang 2003 reissue guitar .

the sound is perfect .

the neck plays great and very fast .

the guitar can do anything you want it to , take it to the limit !!!!

i've sent a s*** load of e-mails to fender , great service .

IT F***ING rules !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You know the features, the bridge is poor, the floating trem is terrible for tuning stability, the switches are in the wrong place. no cutaways on the small body. The pickups are really weak and have too much treble. The finish is poor but does that matter? the one i own is a 50th anniversary fender jagstang

i play hard hair rock and the pickups on this guitar are terrible. Quiet and too much treble. Just stock this guitar sucks.

The set up was non existent. the slanted pickups dont help the guitars sound at all.

This guitar plays like a toy.

The neck is nice and small, I dont have large hands but even I prefer playing Les Pauls and Telecasters to this guitar. I thought this guitar was good when i first bought it when i was 15, but my friend bought a Yamaha pacifica for half the price and that guitar is better than this one!

It plays like a replica of a guitar.

Minha Jag-Stang e uma 2003 Japonesa ... cor Red Fiesta
adorei o kurt juntou as duas melhores guitarras dos anos 60 e 80
pegou o melhor delas e voalah os controles a madera tudo 100% n?o tive nehum problema ate agora a guitarra veio num case muito bonito uso um Marchal e pedaleira ZooM 707 II so senti a falta de pegada
no Estilo jazz ... mas que dera essa e uma guitarra grunge n?o de jazz

Sem chiados , Sons Ricos e Bem incoparpados e com muita Variedade
adorei a variedade que ela oferece

O acabamento esta medio deveria ter mais cores , a guitarra veio perfeita

ate agora n?o presisei arrumar nada esta otima

n?o presisei utilisar a garantia

Garantido e uma exelente compra .... se N?o intendeu o que falei use o google.com

Great Features....I mean come'on....Mustang switches with a humbucker instead of the twangy sounding Startocaster single coils...Yeah you cant beat that...Have to switch in a Duncan JB though...thats the way to go...YEHA....

Great for all alternative music...Of course NIrvana...but what do you expect from a guitar designed and inspired by the greatest grunge legend fo all time...Kurt Cobain...Incredable...Ive even managed to pull off some SLIPKNOT with this guitar...Amazing...My band does original songs as well as some covers of Nirvana...like "About a Girl", "Rape ME", "Aneurism", "IN Bloom", "Radio Freindly unit Shifter", "Territorial Pissings (true punk) and the occasional-feared-overplayed-disgrace-to-nirvana-bad-rep-to-nirvana-poster-boy-for-screaming-and-such "Smells Like Teen Spirit"...OH WELL WHATEVER NEVERMIND......

Actions tight...Only problem the low E buzz which is easily fixable....

THis thing holds up like an OX...I mean you could throw it into the drumset at a show and itd hold up..If its made by Mr. Cobain i think its made to handle a lot of stressful situations that involved being thrown and or played extremely hard.. I think the latter is a little better explanation consider Kurt would never smash a mustang, jaguar, or jag-stang...only cheap-ass stratocasters...then theyd put a new cheapy neck on it and do it again the next night...waht a way to save money...he knows where its at...

couldnt tell you....All i know is that DANNY doesnt know crap about Cobain.. I mean "havent seen a picture of Cobain with one"?!?!?@?@#? Open your eyes....type "Kurt Cobain Jag Stang pictures" into a search engine and i think it will come up...well better yet, because im not sure you can type....jsut copy and paste what i jsut typed....whatever...i cant believe this...yeah he doesnt know crap about Kurt Cobain...its called he used tehm on his last tour....

THis thing is amazing...throw a JB in the bridge and a Hot Rails in the neck and you have one mean guitar...Better yet get it in Sonic Blue and purcahse a red pickguard for it...then flip the vibrato bridge around and bolt that down so it doesnt move...then buy a Stew-Mac tune-o-matic bridge for it...yeah im in heaven right now..tahts hte way to go on this thing...Perfect score...cant get better...oh wait a jaguar...heavily modified..but yeah tahts two tiems teh price and half the good looks of this badboy.....Hells yeah...KC for life...

The jagstang has no great features to speak of. It was not a very well thought out or designed guitar. If a real guitar of this type is wanted a person should consider a Jaguar

There are no tonal qualities to this guitar, as far as sound goes all I can say is crap crap crap

The factory setup on these suck as do any new guitar you get from fender, when it comes to setups fender wouldn't know a good setup job if it hit them in the face!!! From what I can tell the finish on these really suck, I guess Fender was using the left over shit from there other guitars to finish these

This guitar has as much chance withstanding a night of been gigged with as a dog without any legs has running

Fender used to be really great to deal with, but anymore it seems they are to busy raping the working musician with there high prices and inferior products. I have a 1964 Jaguar that has never once given me an ounce of trouble, but it seems that every new Fender I have ever bought has always managed to fall on its face and Fender is too busy pumping the neighbors dog to do any thing to help. I will never buy a post Leo Fender product again as long as I live

I have been playing for 12 years and have been a professional musician for 4 years, I have a 1964 jaguar as mentioned above, a 1961 strat, 1951 tele, 1958 Les paul standard, 2003 ovation celebrity, 1996 Gibson J-185 custom shop, 1941 d-45 martin, and of course the jagstang (the worst guitar in my collection) If this guitar was stolen and I found the person who stole it I probably would laugh at them because all they would doing is me a favor. the only thing this guitar is good for is a great piece fire wood, but knowing this guitar it would probably mess that up to. The only reason I still have this guitar is the fact that all of the muscians I know are professonals and would rather be caught playing plastic Mickey Mouse guitar than this one. So basically what I am saying is I can't find anyone dumb enough to buy this turd. Also as far as the guitar goes Kurt Cobain must have been on some really powerful mind altering drugs to think up something as hideous as this. Why I bought it I will never know, maybe I had some of those same drugs Kurt was using when i bought It. BUYERS BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!

i got my jagstang off of ebay. its a 96 fiesta red with stock single coil and humbucker pickups. for the pickups theres 2 phasing switches for on, off, and phased. it has a nice slim neck and the frets arent too close together, but not too spaced out either.

nirvana has always been my favorite band, so, being designed by cobain himself, it sounded awesome. on my settings, it sounds nice and twangy. i usually have the single coil on, and the humbucker phased out, and the resulting sound is like the opening notes to "Heart Shaped Box" by Nirvana. Its also awesome for Chili Peppers stuff, too. however, if a bunch of noise and feedback isnt your thing, you might want to turn off the single coil.

when i got it, there was some low E buzz, but i fixed it by raising the bridge a tad, and everything else was perfect. the neck was really easy to play, too

ive only had this guitar for a few months, but so far its hung in there. the pickguard prevents any scratches to the body, so the finish isnt hurt. i replaced the strap buttons with dunlop strap locks, so the strap isnt going anywhere. as you may know, kurt cobain, the guitars designer, beat the hell out of his guitars live, so i trust he wouldnt make a flimsy guitar

havent used any customer support

before i played this, i had a gibson les paul, which is beautiful , but for 2000 dollars less i found a guitar with the perfect sound for me.

My Jag-Stang is a 96' and i love it. The stock single coil on the neck HB at the bridge. It's a common fiesta red with a mother of pearl pick guard. Vibrato bridge (which i hate)It came with a vibrato bar but it never worked. Volume and tone knobs, 2 3 way pick up settings. (when i put both pickups in the middle the guitar doesn't make any noise.

I personally like the sound the comes out of that guitar. You can get ritch clean tones, and those turn up the distortion let feed back ho yeah you gotta love that. i play lots of tool (and yes nirvana)
gives of great pitch harmonics. gets a nine because nothings perfect

after i raised the action (i got a lot of buzz on the low e) it sound just fine. Some Senyors would make it a lot better. when i bought it there where some dings on the neck but the dude told me that they drug it on the ground after they finished it to make look like kurts-true false? probably false but hey when your fifteen you dont care.
do now though

ive gigged it with now problem. but the strap knobs suck. i need to soder the wiring under the volume and tone pots because it cuts out a lot. the finish has held me up for three years.

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Great guitar. Soul Style + sound the three basics of any good guitar. bought when my stat craped out.

Well, the switching allowed for more interesting options than other traditional guitars, so I'll give them some credit. Read the other posts for details, since they're no longer made, I figure most folks won't care that don't already know, ya know?

It was pretty weak out of the box. I went and replaced the HB with a SD Seth Lover, cuz I wanted more chrome on there, and put a Lace Sensor in the neck way back in '98. What do you want? They were considered good back then! These pickups improved the sound, but still a pretty thin sound, which has to do with the wood and hardware...

It was well set up when new, but I used 11's on it, and that almost bent the neck to where it couldn't be intonated properly. I refinished the body in sunburst, and it was alot of work to get the 50 coats of red poly off the pathetic basswood.

It was a very thin neck, the sliding switches stunk, the trem went out of tune very easily (but I didn't use it much anyway). Pretty cheap overall, and anyone that says otherwise is not very sharp.

I think a 6 is fair for this guitar. I am about to build a custom resurrection of this one because I like the shape. It will have good wood, good pickups, good hardware, and a 25.5" scale neck. It was my second guitar in 1996, and I thought it would sound like a strat (SRV being a favorite at the time). I was wrong and bought a good strat the following summer. I have owned a ton of gear and have customized every piece of my signal to what I like, and the tone is there. This guitar has stayed disassembled in my closet for around 4 years, and I am hoping the new one will sound as good as my $2000 guitars.

1996 Japan 22 frets RH,single coil and modified jb seymor humbucker, rosewood neck, Fiesta Red, White Pearl pickguard bridge.. dynamic vibrato do not have the trem bar, nor do I have the hardcase it came with new.

I used to be in a Nirvana cover band, but have expanded to late ninety's rock as well, but now mostly jam to original tunes written by bandmates and self. The sound I get from this inspires me to go in directions I thought never were possible with one guitar..the Jagstang is very versitile in range on sensitivity on hitting hard or soft and it seems to adjust to any style or clarity. I am using a fender princeton chorus amp. piggybacked to a peavey 212 chorus as a cabinet and surprisingly it's sound is like no other! I occasionally swith on the chorus while in overdrive and it boost the distortion to an awesome ambience, that fills any space. A very cool sound! I have modified the humbucker but the rest is orig.stock. For my taste, adding the jb seymor makes all the difference in the world. Also add some Elxir strings, They last!

N/A bought from music store and has most likely been set-up to some extent I made a few changes : I raised the humbucker on top side toward the low E sting. raised the action on E, A, B and low E
The weight is perfect and the finish is very attractive, I love the neck and the shape of the fretboard. I have had to solder the wire/s under the volume and tone controls that had shaken loose.

Yes! This Guitar can stand live gigs, I have used this thing countless times and has never failed, only like any other guitar it will go out of tune slightly after about 12-15 songs ..but that is only from me playing so hard on some songs, very natural to go out at some point but very average along with my stratocaster as well as others. very durable! I have had my strap come off a few times and the butt of the guitar had hit the ground very hard at times, but you could never tell looking at it, that it had been in some accidents. Other than a few dings on the finish(what guitar doesn't have dings?)the guitar is made very well. If you treat something special it will stay special! If you punk it on the ground or smash microphones with it, it will damage and break! Just like a hot rodder paying for expensive tires, then peeling out at every stop sign burning the rubber off. I never understood that!

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I originaly bought this guitar for nostalgic reasons, and did not expect such a fine crafted piece of work. However it was instantly my main axe.I have been playing my Jagstang since early 1998 I own a few other Fender Guitars and amps and have been playing seriously for15 + years.
The Jagstang is a Favorite of mine, it never collects dust! I am now in search of a sonic blue jagstang I would love to have the pair, So I can modify one just a bit different for a back-up.

Mine is a first year fiesta red lefty

I play rock n roll, could prolly have some better pick ups. I never use the single coil.

My wife bought me this guitar and it was set up and played awesome from day one. Also unlike a lot of other reviewers mine has incredible tuning stability with the original bridge.

I've had to get the switches repaired on it a couple of times, but considering I've bled all over the guitar (because of those dam switches) and I've kicked, thrown and hit people with the guitar it's been pretty reliable.

Never dealt with them.

I love this guitar. Best guitar I've ever owned, sometimes you just get a special one. I've written more songs on this guitar than any other, hell than all the other guitars I've owned combined. This guitar is better than the Les Paul Deluxe I had, the 1978 Strat, Japanese Tele Custom, ESP Tele....blows them all away.

Has standard Mustang controls (volume, tone, phase switches), but is fitted with a humbucker in the bridge position. Features a Fender floating bridge tremolo system, and smaller/medium frets. Mine had light blue finish.

Sounded really noisy in all positions, most settings just sounded horrible. The only cool setting would have been both pickups engaged and out of phase, with the tone slightly rolled off. I think that the only thing I played at the time I got this was "alternative" music that mostly involved power cords, so I did not notice how much it sucked until I started getting into more bluesy rock. Very cheesy sounding, skinny, flat and weak.

This guitar had a beautiful light blue finish, white pickups and a shell pickgaurd. The aesthetic aspects were great, but floating bridge coupled with that weird ass tremolo made the guitar go out of tune every 2 minutes. I HATED that tremolo and tried to have it disengaged. Fret buzz was almost unbearable no matter what adjustments were made. The ONLY reason this is getting a '7' is because it looked cool.

Im guessing it was pretty tough, but I only had it for a year and never gigged with it.

I'm giving a '10' to the store where I bought it, for attempting to make it a better playing and sounding instrument by almost weekly adjustments and maintenance. Never dealt with fender, but for a Japanese model cheese guitar, I doubt they would have given a shit about me.

Got this guitar when I was 14 back in June of '96. I wanted a Fender Mustang, but decided to get one of these instead. Since I had very little guitar knowledge, I thought that this had to be cool because it was the "Kurt Cobain Model." Well I was sadly mistaken. To this day I have never seen a picture of Kurt with one of these things (usually he just has a heavily modded mustang or jaguar). My old guitar teacher told me about a Fender rep whom he had spoken with about the model, and the man said that Cobain was shown the guitar in its pre-release stages, and Cobain just shrugged his shoulders and walked away. I don't know whether this is true or not, but the guitar really sucked and I sold it about a year after I got it and got a Stratocaster (like I should have done to begin with). I would not recommend this guitar to anyone except post pubescent boys who are into grunge music and don't know any better.

This guitar has a single coil and a humbucker at the bridge. Im not really a fan of the humbucker thats in it. Ill probly change it. It has a big 70s style headstock which I like, thats what really caught my eye on buyting it. That and it was designed by Kurt Cobain. The neck is very nice but im still getting used to it.The bridge is a little strange but it works. It has 22 frets and there set just fine. No buzzing! When i first got it it had a little bit of a tuning problem but after i set the bridge it went in just fine. Still goes out though. I must complain about the body, I think it is really cool and comfortable but needs some contours.(might bust out the belt sander!)joking. It also has a shorter scaled neck, Its not like my strat. But it plays well. I replaced the strap pegs with locking strap pegs,(for safty reasons).

This guitar sounds decent, but the humbucker isnt heavy enough for me. I want a grungy dirty sound and its more soft and soothing. I play mainly grunge and metal,(mixed) and well it just needs a new humbucker. It has 2 three way switches in it which im still figuring out. Im used to a 5 way! Other than that it sounds pretty good.

It has pretty good action, and its rather solid. The neck is very fast. I play mainly power cords(i suck) so it works. I love the finish, The color is awsome,sonic blue. I havent giged it yet so i dont know if it dings easy. I might just keep it protected and not find out how easy it dings! I bought it used and it has 2 very small dings, there not to the wood either.

The guitar seems reliable. Its only been in my room so far so its hard to say if it can handle a gig. The finish is nice but who knows what time will do. I could probly depend on this guitar but I will probly always have a backup.

The guitar is a Fender and has there quality. I Love strats and worship Fender guitars. I just hope the Jag Stang last me awhile. The more I play it the more i like it, but Thats almost any guitar. You can somtimes convince yourself into things. Such as likeing a guitar.

Ive only been playing about 4 years and in that time have joined a band and written over 20 songs. Ive been in the band for about a year and a half. Ive always played a Strat and never cared for any other. The Jag stang is a big step for me. If you asked me about it now itd tell you its decent. That answer might change in 2 more years.

Made in 1995 (First Year), Fiesta Red, Mustang bridge, 1 Humbucker, 1 Single coil, Out of Phase switching, Short scale, you know the rest. It does have some pretty nice features.

Now this is where it falls short. The humbucker is slanted in the bridge position, and that makes the pole pieces and the strings not line up evenly, causing a muddy, nasty sound. The neck single coil wasn't anything to brag about either. To get this thing to sound even decent you would have to route it, buy a new pickguard, and a new humbucker and it isn't even worth it. I found this guitar to also sound, very bassy through my amp, I mean you could almost play slap bass with the thing. Just horrible.

The tuners don't hold tune, the switches get in the way, and the body chips extremely easy. It intonates nicely, and it did have a rather nice paint job, though. The out of phase switches do tend to get in the way though. And, like I said about it chipping easy, you wouldn't know until you tried the thing. I was talking on the phone with the guitar next to me, and I put the phone down, and bumbed it gently against it, and that caused a good sized scratch. I would walk with it, maybe gently touch the guitar against a wall, and it would scratch. It would scratch from wearing a belt buckle, just horrible. The neck though, is very comfortable. Nick and thin, a change from a Strat. That was basically the only thing good about this guitar. And the strap pegs are very cheap.

This thing is pretty reliable, but unfortunately, it just doesn't sound or play good. The Volume pot started to crackle uncontrollably for a while, but it was just a wire from the inside wrapped around it, no big deal, but little things like this tend to happen with it. I would trust it for a gig as a backup, or maybe even my third backup, in case worst comes to worst.

Never dealt with them. Fender has a pretty bad rep.

This guitar really isn't worthy of the hype it gets. I will admit I was turned on to the guitar through Kurt Cobain, but the guitar is just plain bad. I didn't even like it when I wanted to be Kurt. It is just bad. Unfortunately, since his name is attached, and they are out of production, the prices are sky-high. I sold mine a long time ago though. Unless you want to do tons of modifications to it, I would avoid it. To me, it wasn't worth the time. It is just about the ugliest guitar I have ever seen, and one of the most uncomfortable I have ever felt. Not worth the time or money. I figure mostly Nirvana fans will read this, so just go buy a Fat Strat, you can get the sound easier without all the trouble. I am glad this guitar is out of production, Fender put out a half-assed piece of sh!t to capitilize off of Kurt's name, and they did. I hope the fad for this guitar just dies off soon.

1996 Fiesta red Jag-Stang, made in Japan. This model has been described extensively:
- basswood body.
- maple neck (short scale) with rosewood fingerboard: its short scale makes it easier to fret if you have small hands, but on the other hand...
- two pots (volume and tone).
- one single pickup (neck) and one humbucker (bridge). Both are Japanese replicas of pickups favoured by Kurt Cobain (Texas Special and DiMarzio).
- body designed as as combination of Jaguar and Mustang: aesthetically very good, but not very well balanced.
- mustang style bridge: not very useful for the type of music this guitar was supposedly designed for. As far as I concern, I prefer playing a guitar which doesn't go completely out of tune.
- nice vintage Kluson-style tuners.

In my humble opinion, this is just a rhythm guitar. Yo con't play lead very comfortably. With that in mind, the Jag-Stang dosn't achieve some quality goals: good wood, solid construction... but not a very useful tremolo (Mustang-style) and low-quality pickups (especially the single one). I have ten different guitars (all kind of guitars) and I play a different style of music with every one of them (don't get me wrong: I'm just saying that I'm not one of those who tries to play hard-rock songs with a Tele!), but this is the worst guitar I have. It is only useful when you need to strum, don't expect it to be very useful in other aspects of playing. I play straight to amp (a Fender Roc Pro 1000 combo), and the single coil is really poor in quality. The humbucker is much better, specially if you use distortion: that's what this guitar seemed to be designed. At least it gives a bright sound, not like the dull sound produced by the neck pickup. Not a versatile guitar at all. bearing that it was a "signature" (although low-priced) guitar, Fender could have upgraded the pickups so that you don't have to change them immediately. It's not the pickups, only: played unplugged, it doesn't ring very well too. Bolt-on neck and Mustang tremolo doesn't help very much to get a richer sound.

I bought it secondhand (near mint condition) by means of eBay, as these guitars were not available in Spain. As far as I can tell, it is a very good built instrument in terms of woods, finishes, hardware, tuners and so on. The only aspect i don't like is that you have to raise the bridge a little bit so that the strings don't make an awful buzz du to fret contact. Appart from that, everything seemed correct.

I wouldn't use this guitar in a gig unless I was playing in a strictly punk-rock or grunge band: it is not versatile enough. I have tried different string gauges, I've raised the pickups to different heights, I've used all pickup combinations... but I don't like the sound of it at all. It's very nice and it's a fetish--- but not a player's guitar.

No opinion (bought it second-hand)

To be honest, I was in love with this guitar when I first saw it... but once I got my hands on it I immediately disliked it. Yo know, it's that mysterious thing about a guitar that makes you love or hate it for the rest of your life, and you only need a few seconds of contact to notice that. It's beautiful, but it sounds awful. I just keep it as I bought because I have many other guitars and don't wat to spend more money changing pickups and things like that. I prefer to keep everything in stock, put it in a case and have like an investment: in some years it will be a collectors item due to the link with Cobain and the fact that it's discontinued, so I hope I make more money from it than the amount I paid. But if you're a guitar player and want a good instrument for gigging (that's what it's all about, isn't it) rather than hangin' it on the wall and contemplate how beautiful it is, I'd sincerely suggest that -if you like the design- you bought a cheaper Mustang (for example) and put high aulity pickups. Otherwise, if you want to be like Cobain (and I really admire his songs and his playing) you'd better take this Jag-Stang and smash it in front of your audience. Not a bad attitude... smells like teen spirit.

1996 Left-handed Sonic Blue made somewhere in Godzillaville. The body
is made of five (thats right, five) different pieces of Basswood glued
together. Other features are the same as every Jag-Stang. Crappy
Kluson style tuners, Dynamic Fender Vibrato ("dynamic" is interchangable with the word "useless" in this case). The neck is its best feature, Maple w/rosewood 24" scale. The pick-ups are weak and
thin. When Mr. Cobain came up with this thing I bet he thought Fender
would make an instrument of at least "reasonable" quality. IMO, this
guitar should have been sold for $250.00 new, not $485.00 (more than
what right-handed Jags went for...Lefty=Screwed). The features are
great, its just the QUALITY of the features that sucks.

Its sounds better now that theres a Seymour Duncan JB in the bridge
(circa 1986) and a Blue Lace Sensor in neck position. At least now it
has SOME balls... I run it through a Mesa/Boogie DC-3. The 60 cycle hum is pretty much gone now...I used to think it had a flourescent light in it somewhere. I also shielded the pickup cavity with
aluminum foil tape...much better.

The action was "decent" when I took it out of the box it came in.
I was told by the guy at the store I bought it from that "they" didn't
make a case for the leftys. I wonder....The paint is very thin and
I would guess that the basswood is rather soft because it is VERY
easy to dent. It doesn't tune all that well because of the vibrato
and the shitty tuners...I'd change them out but I don't want to re-drill the headstock or replace them with the same shitty "vintage"
lefty machines Fender offers.

I don't think I'd trust it for a live gig, especially with its propensity to wander out of tune. The finish sucks as stated earlier
and the hardware is of poor quality.

Never dealt with Fender...never will.

I really love the design of this guitar, but the quality is sorely
lacking. IMO, Fender did a disservice to the legacy of Kurt Cobain.
If I want a QUALITY Jag-Stang I'll order it from Ed Romans World
Class Guitars...I think I've given enough money to Fender(I own three). Even the lefty American Strat I bought for $650.00 new in 1990 was of
less than stellar quality...the neck warped around the third fret.
If my Jag-Stang were lost or stolen I'd be pretty bummed, but like I said, I'd probably order one from Ed and have a tune-o-matic on it with a one-piece basswood body, maybe some quality locking tuners, Seymour Duncans, etc. Something like the Lefty Mustang that Danny
Ferrington built for Kurt...a QUALITY instrument.

My jagstang is japanese, sonic blue with a perloid pickguard, single-hum, one tone and one volume, 22 frets

I play new metal, punk, grunge
The stock pickups suck!!!! I replaced the stock pickups with a dimarzio hs-2 in the neck and a seymour duncan JB in the bridge and sounds like amazing. Plugged in a sansamp - boss ds-1 - electro-harmonix bigmuff - marshall jcm-800 sounds perfect.

The neck is the best fender neck. Is very thin, and very playabily.

I had this guitar since 1996 and never nedded to fix

Never

I have a fender big apple stratocaster, a american standart, a gibson sg, but the jagstang is my favored guitar

I think the features have been pretty much covered already...

my model is a 1996 in sonic blue. the only "mod" i made are some strap locks because i was scared i'd drop it. the basswood body isn't exactly "ding resistant" - the smallest knock seems to dint the wood (although the finish is fairly durable). It has everything i need (humbucker and single coil) and the out of phase options are fantastic.

the music i play is mainly alternative rock/post hardcore/indie. when i bought this guitar i was mainly playing grunge. I presume that most people that want this guitar are fans of the late eighties/early nineties grunge/alt. phase, but this guitar is a lot more versatile than that. for the style i play, its nigh on perfect.

the three main options i'll play are the humbucker alone, single coil alone and out of phase single coil. the humbucker is fairly weak to be honest - compared to a seymour dunc anyway. but i think this is were the key to this guitar lies - its individuality. the sound of this is actually fairly bright in comparison to say a Les Paul. this suits me perfectly, as i've never been someone who wants to have the same sound as everyone else. If you want to play Slayer or nu metal riffs then get yo'self a BC Rich. if you want some definition and top end in your overdriven chordal spazz-outs - look no further.

the single coil is nice - i think its the same one off a japanese strat. nice and smooth, think the classic neck coil of a strat with a bit more warmth and you're not far off.

Out of phase opens up the sound and is probably the loudest, if less defined, sound option. i use this for rich, bassy clean sounds. add a tiny bit of overdrive and the amp breaks up nicely. again, think of the out of phase option on a strat.

So, for me, this sound is great. but don't expeact any metal riffs to be flowing from it.

when i bought this guitar, it was in a terrible state. basically the fretboard buzzed when applying any force and vigour to a chords. this is probably more due to the fact that the neck is rounded like the old style strats and not the newer, flatter 9.5 radius. to be fair it's only audible when played acoustically. a few of the frets are choking at the minute aswell. this is easily sorted by a pro and will improve the playability a lot.

the neck is easily one of the best i've played. i think its taken straight from a mustang anyway but it feels slightly thinner still. i have big hands so i always feel i have complete control over notes and never overstretched.

the volume pot has recently started buzzing occaisionally but that's probably due to some kind of liquid getting into it (sweat, most probably). Other than that this thing has never given up on my during a gig or practice. And also considering the iffy "dynamic Bridge" tuning stability is absolutely rock solid ( i haven't locked the bridge). from what i've read some jagstangs can go out of tune really easily - i must have been lucky.

never dealt with fender or needed to get it repaired.

i've had this guitar for 5 years now and never actually felt the need to buy another one. it's as if it has dictated how my playing and style has developed. for sheer character this guitar, along with probably all the "b-list" fender guitars (mustang, jaguars, super-sonics etc.), this really is great. the sound suits me perfectly - not over-the-top metal, this thing has dynamics and versatility. If you look past the Kurt Cobain licensing i think you'd be pleasantly surprised. And to all those people that put EMG 81's in the bridge - you are completely missing the point. Go buy an ibanez instead.

one last thing - if it means anything to you this guitar is quite rapidly becoming a collectors item. i recently spotted one of these in a guitar shop in britain for #800 (about $1200 i think!). this is most probably down to the fact that they stopped making them in japan last year. bonus, i think.

Same thing as everybody else. Nothing noteworthy.

Going through a Line 6 POD, the single-coil sounds quite good. I've put heavy-gauge (13-56) flatwound strings on the guitar and it can produce some convincing jazzy rhythm tones since then. The humbucker is complete garbage - the output is too weak and the sound is way too thin. The variety of sounds is good, but the quality itself is shady. I'm saving up to put an EMG-SA in the neck and an EMG-60 in the bridge, which should help things quite a bit.

I bought this guitar as NOS - it has hung on a wall for 6 years. As such, I think the neck has twisted a bit since it will buzz quite heavily if I put anything lighter than 12-52 strings. The action cannot be set very low on this guitar - my MIJ Mustang reissue can bet set much lower. The frets are very small and they feel cheap; that's too bad, because the neck itself feels very solid. The only unexcusable flaw on this guitar is the ultra-cheap pickguard, from which the top pseudo-pearloid layer is peeling off.

It seems moderately durable. The finish is very thin, so beware not to bang that guitar too hard. I'll never gig with this guitar because it looks way too goofy and the short scale is not appropriate for a rock/blues setting.

*cough*

I've played guitar seriously for almost 10 years now. I own four other electrics: a Godin LGX-SA, a MIJ 80's Strat, a MIJ Fender Mustang reissue and an Epiphone SG. The Jag-stang is the least satisfying of all those guitars. This is an overpriced, riding-on-a-hype guitar. I don't play much with it; it's much more of a fetish posession than anything else. Fender tried its best to produce the cheapest POS that they could make and they succeeded admirably. The guitar looks much more valuable than it is. Not all is lost, though - if you want to make the Jag-stang usable, replace the pickguard, pickups (at least the humbucker), tuners and put heavy strings on it to help stabilize the bridge and the neck. The sound is very un-grungy for a Kurt Cobain design. This is best suited for funky and jazzy rhythm licks. In one word: bah.

My Jag-stang was made in Japan in 1996.Its Fiesta Red but i got it re-finished Sonic Blue. Its a great guitar, but i prefer a Jaguar.

I have a non-cover band and I use this guitar the most. It sounds great. I like it a lot because I'm in a grunge band and this guitar makes really good feedback. It also sounds nice clean. Put the tone all the way up, it will sound awesome.

When i got this guitar everything was perfect. I didn't really have to set it up that much. The bridge made it go out of tune a lot though so i did something to the bridge to make it stay in tune. Now its perfect.

This guitar is a rock. How the heck will it fall apart!! This guitar will last a lifetime. I used this guitar in a couple gigs without a back up and it never failed me. If u want a guitar that lasts get this one!

A lot of people helped me decide to get this guitar. Thanks!

I've been only playin this guitar for a couple moths and its great and I love it. If this guitar was stolen I'd either get another one or track that guy down. I love that this guitar is heavy because light guitars seem like toys to me. Get this guitar u wont be sorry.

mine is '97 Fiesta red and I modded it.
It now has black pickup covers and a JB.(looks great)
500K pots.
A Gotoh tune-o-matic bridge and I flipped the tail piece and lowered it, this is by the way the best mod ever for this guitar!
shimmed the neck so I can adjust my action due to the TOM
a couple of strap locks

Well nothing new to say about the JB's sound it just rocks and gets the sound I want. kinda the green day and nirvana stuff and other punk sounds. Togheter with my Marshall 8080 I get the sound.

Except the clean sound sucks butt I thing that has got to do someting with my amp. I bassically want a brighter sound.

The paint job I thing is really bad compared to my squire. It scratches easy and It fell down once on a wooden floor and the damn paint chipped off the ass. As for the wood used (basswood) I really would have liked a heavier sort of wood it would deffinatly add to the overall sound.
The pickguard is a mustang pickguard and doesn't fit prober, I'm gonna make I new one and straighten out the humbucker And make it more fluently with the lower horn section. Also would have liked some body contours.

That where the bad thing now the good things about the guitar. First the neck is really the best neck I ever played, I love it!
And with the mods I made this guitar is awesome!

never let me down and I have rewired everything and still it hasn't let me down. Everything on the guitar seems to be of a reasonable good quilty but could be better I thing.

never dealt with

With the mods I made it's a top guitar and would not trade it for any other guitar in the world.

My jag-stang is stock, so you know what the guitar has on it. If you don't read the other reviews.

I play Blues and Punk, so this guitar is perfect for both. using both pickups out of phase, slightly overdriven, gives a perfect JL Hooker tone, very twangy and crisp. crank up the distortion, switch the neck in phase, the bridge out, and you have a perfect punk guitar. some people claim that both pickups sound the same. they do sound the same with the distortion all the way up, and all the EQ knobs set at ten. be sure to turn the knobs ON the guitar if you don't like the sound your gettign when you're trying the guitar out. The guitar sounds BEAUTIFUL clean. it's amazing. you get perfect blues tone out of the neck pickup clean or slightly overdriven.

every thing was great, except for the intonation, which needed to be set. paint job is solid, doesn't chip. well, if i were to beat on it with a metal object, it'd chip, but hey, it's a fender, it's a tank.
the short scale is fabulous, with a properly oiled fretboard & neck, the guitar plays effortlessly.

the tremolo is a big issue for many people. the guitar did have tuning problems, but i did two things. i oiled the points on the bridge posts, and lubed the nut with graphite(pencil lead). after a week the jag-stang is still in tune after constant and heavy tremolo use(dive bombs galore). another thing you might want to do if you do these things and still have problems with tuning stability, is to move your trem springs up, that is, make the trem stiffer.

Fender=Awesome. this ain't yer gramma's SG that snaps when you set it down. this baby is heavy though, it's heavy as or heavier than a Les Paul. you'd get worn out pogoing with this one. if i knew strings wouldn't break, i'd used it without a back up. i have gigged with it, several times, it's been solid.

never dealt with Fender. they have a bad rep, though.

An Awesome guitar. of course i'll buy other guitars, but if i couldn't, i'd wouldn't be unhappy with this guitar. i own a Strat, a Tele, an Explorer, and three acoustics (a fender, a martin, and an old Benteley).

Nothing special

I still use the original pickups, with the humbucker 'in' and the single-coil 'out' (of phase that is), I'm thinking of replacing them with a 'dirtier' humbucker and a warmer single. I play it through a Electro-Harmonix Big Muff and a Boss Delay all plugged into a Peavey Envoy 110. It sound quite nice.

I don't like the fact it's a slab as it make playing quite uncomfortable after a while, the action used to be terrible as the bridge had an adjustment screw missing, but a bit of card sorted it.

The strap button on the horn suffered the usual Fender fate and fell off so the strap's held on with Gaffa tape (oooh... very punk rock) the tuners are okay, but difficult to use as they don't like being moved really small amounts so I can't get the thing perfect. I've used it in gigs, but have never needed a backup instrument. The hardware has lasted pretty well, execpt the tone pot fell apart after I dropped the guitar.

I've only needed to have it repaired once when the neck began to warp, that was last month (Novemeber 2001). As the instrument is about five years old it's not under warranty.

If it were stolen I'd probably get an Explorer with the insurance.
The thing I really like about it is the way it looks... The thing I hate about it is the fact I need to get a hard case custom made.
To all those who are now buying used Jag-Stangs for #700 or more: UNLUCKY!

I think everyone knows the features of this guitar from the other reviews, so I'll skip most of it. What features are you looking for in a guitar?

I've replaced the pickups with a Seymour Duncan JB jr. in the neck, and a DiMarzio super distortion in the bridge. So the sound now suits me just great. I read other reviews about the guitar not staying in tune, but I have no problem whatsoever. When I had it tuned down half a step, it was a bit more difficult, but now I have a standard tuning and it's perfect. Almost always in tune when I pick it up, and stays in tune for a good hour or so of playing. My main style is punk, and I play through a Fender Princeton Chorus with a Danelectro Fab Tone distortion pedal. I sounds exactly how I want it.

Action is outstanding. Finish was good, but I've been playing since I bought the guitar when it was released, so it has some dings. The wood is pretty soft, so it dents really easily. But the neck is straight still, after many falls. So if you don't mind a not so pretty guitar (if you don't take care of it), it's a strong, sturdy piece. The placement of the volume and tone controls is my favorite feature. Unlike most other Fender guitars, they're tucked back a bit, so your hand doesn't accidentally hit them when you play. I don't like however, the pickup switches, as it's easy to tap them and turn them off when playing hard. They also don't serve much of a function. I'd suggest rewiring the configuration to suit a practical setup.

I think I covered this above. I've been playing it since summer of 96, and it is still strong. Strap buttons do come loose sometimes, but I have them taped up nicely with some super duper gaff tape. They'll never come undone now. Would anyone gig without a backup? Broken strings are annoying to change mid-show. I'd buy another one as a backup, and since it's sort of a cheezy guitar anyway, you can find one for a reasonably cheap price. The finish is still nice, except for the chips. Hardware is still perfect, and I never put it in a case unless I'm travelling with it.

What kind of problem can you have after 6 years when nothing has gone wrong? Never had to deal with Fender, but I'd like to believe they backup their reputation.

I played a lot of guitars when I bought this one, and I had several thousand dollars to blow. I almost bought an SG, but didn't want to spend that much money, as I'd only been playing for a few years before. This was the most comfortable guitar I've played to date. It does everything I want it to do. If it was lost/stolen, I would absolutely buy another one. I want another one anyway, just in case something serious happens to this one. The only thing I hate is that it has a rather unique configuration that makes wiring new pickups difficult. Also, because there aren't too many of these out there, some spare parts can only be ordered through Fender.

Sam features as mustang. Only humbucker in neck.

It's sounding almost like mustang but much more worster way.Buy Mustang it's real vintage guitar.If you want sound like Kurt Cobain don't buy this. You can read in Nirvana's Equipment site that Cobain didn't like it when he had it.

Buy Mustang.

Buy Mustang.

Buy Mustang.

BUY MUSTANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Sonic Blue(Is it really Sonic Blue or did Fender mess up and paint it Surf Green and called Sonic Blue? anyway it is kickass color) Jag-Stang which I named "KC's Masterpiece"(it's the guitar served kentucky fried with a side of mashed potaters and gravy HA!) was manufactured in 96 in Japan. For the most part, most of the stuff on my guitar is factory standard, with the exception of the humbucker which is a Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates(I'm also planning to replace the single coil with something more powerful) and the only other thing I did was to take a nail file and sand down the plastic pick-up switches so they are not as sharp.

I don't really have a style. My music can be grungy, trippy, hard driving, calm and mellow BLAH BLAH BLAW....
I have a crappy Marshal student amp, and I use a Boss DS-1 Distortion and a CH-1 Super Chorus Pedal and a Crybaby Wah Pedal from Dunlop.

There didn't seem to be any problems with it as far as can tell, just a couple nics and dings

I really baby it and is very reliable, so it should last a long time.

It will be an overall great once I put a new single-coil in it.

22 frets, s/h config, the stock fender pickups. body is basswood, finish, gloss, sonic blue. typical fender floating bridge, no problems with the bridge. it's not locked, i just don't use it that much

i play punk, blues, and flamenco. this guitar fits the first two styles perfectly. i play it through a crate GX 15.
i had read several reviews of this guitar saying it had no tonal or dynamic range, etc. when i first played this guitar i played not Teen Spirit, but Red House. and found that this supposed lack is not so. i can go from a distorted out of phase buzzsaw sound, to a perfect tubular blues sound. with the neck pickup out of phase, you can get some twangy country tones. don't just play the guitar. twiddle with the knobs. you'll be suprised.
the only thing i would change are the switches. it's too hard to quickly switch from rhythm to solo mode, unlike on a strat, where an upflick of the hand can switch. this, however is not major.

no problems at all. i'll probably shield the cavity, and re-ground it, as i do to all my guitars. the tuners are rather sensitive, and it's easy to bump the low E tuner and knock the string out of tune. the plug sticks straight out of the front of the guitar, which bugs me. i never liked that, but that's cosmetic. i can get a cord with a 90 degree plug, and take care of that.
other than that, nothing wrong.

Fender = Tank
the finish seems fine. it's obviously used, and the finish has held up all this time so far. hardware is solid and quiet, unlike some jags i've played.

never talked to them, but fender has a bad rep.

i've been playing guitar for two years, but i've been a musician for eleven (piano). i would have hard feelings toward whoever stole this guitar. very hard feelings.
the dynamic range on this guitar is incredible, and the dual out of phase sound was just the buzzsaw sound i was looking for. the humbucker makes for a good variation from my strat.

Mine is a lefty. Stock it comes with a Humbucker and a single coil, both pieces of crap. Cool pickup selector switches. 1 Volume, 1 Tone. Absolute piece of shit Fender "Dynamic Vibrato". Sonic Blue(actually looks more like sea foam green) with bolt-on neck. I bought it for the great, little neck and its cool body. All of the problems with this guitar are fixable, and the good outweighs the bad.

I play music like the Stooges, Sonic Youth, White Stripes, Radiohead, Pavement, Televison, Sex Pistols, Velvet Underground, the Kinks, the Clash, Jefferson Airplane and a lot more. My usual setup is Fender Jag-Stang>Boss XT-2>EH Small Clone>Fender Princeton 65.

If you want a guitar that you can only play with distortion because of its crappy voicing, leave it stock. If you want it to be able to make more than one sound, switch the pickups. I chose a Seymour Duncan JB in the bridge and APS-II in the neck. These are two great pickups and I would recommend them to anyone. The tuners are horrible too so change them. Before the mods it would have gotten a 3 in this catergory, but I am giving a rating for after the mods

well I really can only comment on the finish, because I bought this guitars 2nd hand. Its great, no flaws I can see. Sonic Blue/Seafoam Green wouldn't be my first choice for a finish, but that really doesn't matter

Strap buttons strip easily, I've heard that the finish chips easily as well.

I don't regret getting this guitar. It's beatiful and the neck is my favorite. I forget how much I paid for it, but I'm sure it was worth it.

when i was young, dumb, and 15 it was the best guitar ever. By the time i turned 16, i realized the single coil suck and dumped a PAF into it. by the time i was 17 i realized the tuners sucked so bad that i stopped playing it. im 21 and now it hangs on my wall with 11 others.

The sound would be pretty good if i was tone def, but i hear notes, and these are not good. it never tuned right. it has a nice tone though.

the action sucks, along wiht the tremolo. The finish is pretty plain, i think it would be hard to mess that up.

reliability.. yes, this guitar is ideal for mediocre play.

dude, its kurt cobains guitar... woooaaahhhhhhhhh

For all the kids out there that are bleaching their hair and growing it out and have 100000 pictures of kurt on their wall, this is the guitar for them. It gives them a false sense of security that everything will be alright. After reading most of the 10 10 10 10 reviews, i couldnt be more sure of it. I was that stupid ass kid once, but now that ive played other guitars and moved on past the fact that he died, i realize this guitar really sucks. im sure his wasnt too crappy. ask the guy in REM since he has it now.

For the people that think he was a great guitarist, you couldnt be more blind. he was a songwriter, and lacked imensely in his guitar PLAYING ability. most of the people that got one of these probably do too, though.

Ok, this guitar was built in japan, has a humbucker ( fender dragster ) in the bridge and a sincle coil in the neck along with mustang stylee pickup selectors, mine is lefthanded and in fiesta red, which is nice. The neck is 24 scale which i love, it has a mustang tremlow that i locked down just cause i don't uses it, this improves the tuning stability.

I play grunge style music mainly ( not just nirvana , soundgarden , mudhoney, meat puppets, melvins ) the guitar sounds ok if you have a good amp with lots of gain but the pots and caps in the guitar make the humbucker sound week, although well balanced ( actually slightly bright but i like this ) , although actually its an alright bucker, so i swapped it out for a duncan full shred which i love, i reviewed that as well. The sincle coil is relly cool, nice and surfy.All the pickup selections are usable and all of them are cool locking down the bridge improves sustain as well. Once i did the mods this guitars sound gets a 10 easily .

The guitar was set up well by the shop i bought it off, pickups needed raising abit but thats all. The wood this guitar is made of ( basswood ) is very soft and dints easily, this is the only thing i really don't like about the guitar. everything was asembled soundly. On mine anyway.

I'd say it is a very reliable guitar, maybe a strap lock wouldn't go a miss , i always gig with a backup though just in case. Like i say the finish does crack and dint easily.

never dealt with them

I've owned this for about half a year , and i'm very pleased with it especially after moding it. It will always be my favorite guitar jus because it has sooooooo much character, its imperfect , but show me a guitar that isn't.

Fender fabricada en Japon...22 trastes...Mastil delgado...Volumen y tono...puente Dynamic Fender Vibrato...un selector con tres posiciones para cada pastilla.....
Y un color azul que es muy verde
?Que mas puedo decir que no se haya dicho ya?Pues que la forma es perfecta, es una guitarra preciosa, aunque la pintura salte si se te cae al suelo.

El sonido es genial. Gran variedad tonal, sirve para todo, yo la uso para hacer metal, grunge, rock alternativo... Y suena aun mejor si la conectas a un buen pedal Fuzz, me gusta como suena con el DOD FX33 o con el EH Big Muff.

El mastil es muy comodo y suave, es muy facil de tocar, las clvijas son muy precisas, aunque es un poco dificil cambiar la posicion del selector de las pastillas a mitad de cancion sin que se note

Le salta la pintura con los golpes, por lo demas bien.

Una gran guitarra que deberia volver a fabricarse, esta vez con las pastillas que puso Cobain en vez de con las baratas que venian de fabrica.

meh, just read all of the others. I just want to say that this is the most comfortable guitar on the face of the planet. i have wanted one for years because of its incredible ergonomics. i still dont have one, but my good friend does, and i want to take it from him!

okay.

why does it come in fruity blue?reds okay, but the pearl pick guard is really nice.

uh huh, reliable like an ox.

well the fender factory is by my house, and i have learned that they are stingy with blemished parts. but i guess they would be cool if they sold you a crappy axe.well, i think any plywood guitar is crap
(i had a mexican strat, and when i smashed it i was amazed to see the sides. thats right, plywood!)

nice geetar. put a sticker over the Fender and its a date. I wouldnt go on stage with a guitar that cost $300 for the name on it. get a Kramer. the striker is awesome. it didnt take me long to find out Fender stopped making good guitars in the 50's. well, im sure you could get a nice fender if you want to pay $1000. but after 8 years i know im gonna stay off of the fender wagon.

this guitar was made in japan like every other jag-stang in 1995.
it has 22 frets. 2 3-way pick up selectors. volume and tone dials. it has 1 single coil (stock) and a JB humbucker. a very thin neck.
the best neck ever IMO. came with original case with "designed by kurt cobain" writen on the front.

the sound is soooooooo good. i play lots of different styles and it suits the lot of them. there is no better guitar for sound IMO.
i use it with a small clone chours and a big muff. both pedals suit the guitar perfectly.

the guitar is set up very well. i didnt get it from the factory. the guy who owned this before me set it up and set it up well.
the pickups are fine. no buzzing or anything.
the guitar has a few chips which is expected with a second hand guitar IMO.

havent giged with it but my sister dropped it half way down the stairs and it was fine. the neck was still straight and the body got no new scratches. this guitar will definatly last.
i would use this guitar at a gig without backup. my baby would never let me down.

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overall i think this guitar is the kind of guitar that will stay with you forever. i love it.

Going from the serial number, this is a new Jag-Stang, imported to the UK from Japan by Music Ground in Leeds.
It's totally stock.
Jap pickups which rock, I dont care what anyone says.
Versatile Switching, on/off in/out phase.

This guitar gets used for everything. The HB can really rip when you've got it overdriven. Tuning the guitar down a tone gives you a bowl churning Limp Bizkit/Linkin Park growl. The Single Coil, although typically noisy, offers a very warm authentic vintage sound. I really can't emphasise how good these pickups are, everyone seems to slate them, but I'm perfectly happy with them. I play alongside another gutarist who has a Mex Fat Strat, and tone for tone, the Jag-Stang is warmer, and much more Fender sounding. I play with Fender strings, Steel 350s, 10-46 gauge. These give a higher and clearer output that then stock strings, as well as tuning stability.
I know Kurt stuck a duncan JB into his Jag-Stang, so I may try one someday, but I think I'll keep the stock one, this will also ensure the Jag keeps it's value!!!

There were two guitars at the shop. One for #650 and one for #550. The 550 had a bad pearloid finish, and the SC pickup was corroded, otherwise if was fine. The 650 was perfect except for the body which showed the wood joins under the light. I know that this can happen with time anyway, so I got the 650 guitar : who was to say that the truss rod wasn't corroded on the other? I'd rather not risk it!
The neck was not straight, so I had to loosen the bolts and put it right, this may have been transit damage or just a shit setup from the factory. Now LISTEN UP !!! Another interesting difference between the guitars was the tuning stability. I had read up on the JS before I got it, and knew about the problems people have had, so I checked both guitars, did a few divebombs. What I found was interesting, the 550 guitar fell out of tune after a divebomb, the 650 was fine, no problems at all!!!! To quote the UK Fender guru (I forgot his name for the moment) he said at Music Live 2001 " If you set up your Fender right, it will stay in tune, no matter how hard you play it, there really is no need for a floyd rose". So there you go, it's true. Take care putting the strings on, no overlaps, stretch the strings, only tune up, not down.
Other than the finish, the guitar is perfect.

Never played live with it, and I don't know if I would dare, I would kill myself if I scratched it.

I'm contemplating getting a Cyclone as a stage guitar. (I currently have a Westfield Strat, which sucks). I think it would stand up to alot of abuse if it needed to.

If I had to, I would play it live, and I wouldn't fear the guitar would let me down, I'm just scared I would let IT down. So a 10!

Arbiter are a shit company and don;'t know their arses from their elbows, but the Fender Guru is the nicest, most helpful guy you could ever deal with, I have spoek with him frequestly via e-mail about buting the JS and my AMP, a Fender RocPro1000.
The place I bought it have given me a 12 month setup warranty, so I can take it in at any point and have the neck truss rod done, nut filed or whatever for free.

I've been playing for 9 years. This is the best guitar I have ever owned. I don;t regret buying it at all, it was overpriced, so I took a risk, but I would gladly have paid double if I had known what a fantastic guitar it was, it's worth every penny.
If someone stole it, I would kill them. Then I would find another stock JS from somewhere, which is hard coz everyone seems to modify them : NO NEED , NO NEEEEED!!!!!!
I am contemplating getting both a stage Cyclone, and a Custom Shop Jag-Stang, with a cobalt-blue flame maple top, and a Hot Vintage-Noiseless SC pickup, that's all I'd change with the guitar.

If you wann hear it, check out my webpage at www.REBORNONLINE.com, there should be some MP3 tracks to download from my band.

I think it was 1997, made in japan, volume and tone controls, 1 single coil and 1 humbucking, sonic blue with a white perload pickguard

I usually play punkrock/grunge ( nirvana style )
I have a marshall valvestate 8080 combo and use a boss ds-2 turbo ditortion effect pedal.
The humburcker in bridge is a dimarzio super distortion. It's sounds amazing, especially in overdrive

The finish is very good, the color is cool but the factory single coil pickup is a shit. The neck is the best, is very thin and playability. The unique problem is the tuning, is very difficult stay tung

I have this guitar only nine months, there is no problem. I play hard and it's perfect

I don't nedded

In my opinion this is the best guitar of the world to play punkrock and grunge, the sound is loud, the body is very hard, a very thin neck. The sounds like Nirvana. Kurt Cobain designed the best guitar

This is an update on my previous review. Here is my Jag-Stang as to the list above.
1.) Its a 1998 50th Anniversary Fender Model with the gold sticker
on the back of the headstock, and as with all Jag-stangs, it's
Made in Japan.
2.) 22 Vintage Frets
3.) Volume, Tone, 2 3-way Pickup switches (On/off/On)
4.) Neck angled single coil, angled bridge humbucker
5.) Emg SA-1 (Neck, its actually a stacked humbucker), EMG 81 (Bridge)
6.) Active Pickups (Not the cheapie select pickups)
7.) Basswood Body (Really Hard Basswood), Maple neck with Rosewood
Fingerboard.
8.) Finish (3 inch thick chip'n'go Sonic Blue)
9.) The Mustang GT of Fender guitars Jag-Stang Shape
10.) Fender Dynamic Tremelo (Correction: Fender Super Whammy 98')
11.) Schaller DeLuxe Kluson Copy tuners
12.) 24" scale fingerboard, Thin Neck, Vintage Frets (I think we have
gone over this already).
13.) Came with a Black Tolex Case

Who needs more stuff than this on a guitar.

As many probably have already guessed
A.) I am a Heavy Metal/Grunge/New Wave/Jazz Guitarist
B.) I Use an Epiphone SC28 Chorus Amplifier With a Boss ME-6 Multi-FX
Pedal and a DOD Compressor/Sustainer pedal.
and C.) I Frequently Review on this Site.

I have changed my Jag-Stang a little more sience when I got it and the things I haven't changed are getting better with age. It is silent as the midnight air, until the dark tones emanate from the dark little EMG's with a vengance. this guitar has a rich and Full sound, and sience I shortened the wiring a little, it has more output than any of my other guitars. This booger sounds like mad and hungry giant. I love this guitar and it's heavy and dark sound.

Sience last time, my little Jaggie has gatehered a few nicks and scratches and Strap Loks that have been super glued in, but this guitar leads a HARD life putting up with all of my crap. Currently it is my misalighened stringed main axe that kickes the butt out of a Floyd Crappo-Rose equipped Ibanez. I have found a crack under the pickgaurd along the wall where the neck sits, and it hasen't crumbled in pain yet. As far as aging, this guitar is like all Fenders, it ages with the grace of a supermodel blessed with permanent beauty.

For a guitar with a Fender Tremelo that thinks it will out-do a Kramer Baretta guitars Floyd Rose , what I am about to say will shock you to death if you own a Jag-stang: I SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH THE JAG-STANG TREMELO, PEOPLE WHO SAY A JAG-STANG CANNOT DO DIVE BOMBS AND SWOOPS NEED TO SIT UNDER THEIR TREE AND THINK ABOUT HOW TO DO IT AWHILE, I HAVE DONE IT AND MANY OTHERS CAN AND MAY ALREADY HAVE. So I will share this little "My Jag-Stang Thinks It's a Jackson Soloist" trick. first you must take some really thin Scotch Tape or 3M tape (The kind you tape envelopes closed with) and wrap a VERY small amount around the action screws on the floating bridge, when you do this you must carefully screw them back into the bridge and make sure they are tight enough to stay in place. Next, you unscrew the bridge plate and take a large pair of pliers and tighten the posts that hold the tremelo springs (I use pliers because the hex keys are less reliable and prone to strip the heads of the screws). Finally you reassemble the whole tremelo including the whammy bar and install some REALLY light strings like 8's or 9's and you will have travel set EXTREMELY far downward. Your Whammy bar should be more than an inch or two or three off of the pickgaurd. It will take some practice and some breaking-in before the tremelo reaches the point of tuning stability like mine has (about a month of regular play or less). By then you should maybye see (If You are a Really abusive trem user) some bending up near the pivot holes in the tremelo plate, DON'T PANIC, this is normal and your guitar should have good to excellent tuning stability with heavy tremelo use, and if you did it right you should expierence some upward tremelo travel. A key note to the tuning stability is to do a few quick dive bombs and retune when you install new strings. I will put a Disclaimer that I am not responsible if you do this and damage your guitar, i have had this guitar more than a year and have not had a problem.

Won't Ever need it!!!

I have been playing 6 years alltogether, almost a year of that with Lithium. This guitar has been my main axe sience I started playing with the band (and Sometime before). I will never get stolen because ........
A.) I Keep this guitar within my sight at all times at gigs.
B.) I Sleep with this guitar next to my bed.
C.) This guitar has done a wonderous job of hurting others (Just ask
some of my friends...).
and of course, the mother of all D.) The person who stole this guitar would be sued, arrested, booked, molested, nettled, and so tortured and punished he or she would not want to see a Jag-Stang much less he Designed by Kurt Cobain sticker again. This has been and will always be one of my main guitars, it was my first wife, my Kramer was my first date, but this one, in the words of Stevie Ray Vaughn, was and is my First wife.

Mustang with weird shape , humbucker and single in neck
Mustang style bridge
The coolest shape ever!

the sound is great and all the settings are usable , although a little noisy , with a JB this guitar is brilliant , although in stock its better than any piece of shit fucking IVE BEEN HAD (ibanez) they fucking suck, o anyway , it sounds great

Brilliant setup good lowish action and good sustain

Ive had it for 5 years and its never let me down

great

Amazing , mind blow jobing , i love it.It beats any POS ibanez they are the worst company dont buy the worst guitar ever - an Ibnez Rg
buy the best fender!!!!!!

Made: 1996
Frets : 22
Colour : Sonic Blue
Pickguard : White Pearloid
Controls : 1 Volume, 1 Tone
Pickup Configuration : S/H
Neck Pickup : Texas Special Single Coil Copy (Quite nice, twangy)
Bridge Pickup : Dimazio H-3 Humbucker Copy (Weak, but balanced)
Electronics : Passive
Body : Basswood (Soft as Hell, dings up real easy and the strap button will strip out on you)
Neck : Maple, with Rosewood fretboard
Body type : Unconventional, Mixture of Jaguar (top horn and back butt) and Mustang (lower horn, upper butt) bodies
Bridge : Fender Dynmamic vibrato (Mustang - style) [very poor for tuning stability]
Tuners : Old Mustang Non Locking style [very poor tuning stability]
Neck : Regular width, Short 24" scale
Case: Hardshell

I play a lot of alternative rock, not necessarily just Nirvana and grunge related stuff. I use it a lot in my band and we play much different style of much to Nirvana, (not totally power-chord orientated for a start). I am using it with a Small Clone, Boss DS-2, Boss OD-2R, CryBaby, and a 100 W Marshall Half Stack, and it sounds great. I did however, have to modify it significantly before I was happy with it: The neck is fantastic, but the pickups suck, particularly the bridge, so I changed them out for a Seymour Duncan JB in the bridge and a Seymour Duncan 1/4 Pounder in the neck. This greatly changes the way the guitar sounds, and it's very versatile now. However, the tuning stability was still very poor, especially with new strings, so I locked the tremelo and fixed the bridge to sort that out. For details see www.jag-stang.com .
It's not noisy at all.
It has a rich, full sound on the bridge pickup, and using the pickups out-of-phase yields a nice Mustang-esque "thin" tone. This is an extremley versatile guitar now and could be used for anything from hard rock to blues to jazz. I'd probably draw the line at thrash metal though, which I hate anyway.

Rating is post-modification

The factory setup was great, and the advantage of this short-scale, flipped tailpiece guitar means that heavy gauge strings can be played at a very low action since the tension is much higher.

The pickups were well adjusted, providing optimal output and sustain.

This guitar is an integral part of my live setup, and I love the way it plays. I'd rely on it if my life depended on it! This is all of course due to the tuning modifications I carried out, otherwise it would be less useful in a live setting.

The finish does chip off easily, it must be quite a thin coating, but that isn't really a factor for me.

As I said before, the strap button did strip out, but that only took some wood filler to fix. 2 minute job and it ain't ever coming back out.

Never dealt with Fender

Ive been playing for 10 years, and this is a fantastic guitar, the neck is the best feature and its so hard to get a guitar with a neck this good these days.

I would be really annoyed if I lost it because they are really rare and its my favourite. I like the fact that my mods make it unique. I love the sounds, I dont really hate anything, but I guess the tremelo is a bit silly until you lock it.

I also have a Hondo Les Paul copy, a squier strat and an Epiphone Riviera. This is my most played and favourite guitar. Buy one, it's worth it.

Made in 1997, in Japan. Finish is Fiesta Red. The bridge is similar to a tune-o-matic with a "floating" capability. The pickups are able to go in and out of phase with the proper setting of the pickup switches.

My musical style is fairly diverse. I play Brit-rock, blues, and some world music. I grew up on Heavy Metal though, and I will sometimes still crank it up! The Jag-stang sounds great. When I purchased it, I had planned on replacing the bridge pickup with something that would have real definition and character. However, after playing the guitar for awhile I realized that I had jumped the gun. The bridge pickup in my Jag-Stang is really ballsy! It is perfect for many subgenres of rock. It is a very quiet pickup that packs loads of punch. The single coil is suitable for a variety of smooth tones. I am running the guitar through a Digitech RP100 and a Vox Pathfinder. I know that many people have had problems with the pickups and that is why I initially planned on changing them. However, mine are just fine. Also, I own nine other electrics including several American Fenders and I have had pickip work done on all of them.

The action was not suited to my taste, so I had my local tech set it up for me. This is something I would have done anyway because I believe all guitars, especially new ones, need to be set up. Since the set up, the guitar stays in tune perfectly and there is no buzz or rattle. My tech did tell me that some of the frets were a little higher than they could be, but this has not posed a problem. The pickguard has a slight bit of warpage to it, but I knew this when I purchased it as it was a "blemished" product.

The guitar appears to be very solid. I mean hey. it's a Fender. The hardware seems sturdy and the finish is beautiful.

I have dealt with Musician's Friend many times before and they have always been very kind and helpful. I've never had to deal with Fender.

I've been playing for 17 years. If the guitar were stolen or lost I'd buy another. As I said before, I have many more guitars and this one is not my favorite, but that is simply becuse I prefer Srats. It is a very fine instrument and it was an absolute steal for the amount of money I paid for it. I have had no problems.

MIJ, not sure of date of manufacture, but it has the Fender anniversary sticker on the back of the headstock. 24" scale, 22 vintage frets, basswood body, and you can read all of the rest of the features in the many other reviews on this guitar.

I bought this guitar knowing that I would need to make some modifications to it. Fender once listed it as one of its "Collectible" series guitars (or something like that), but I bought it for playing. The original issue hardware was not very good, so my ratings for the guitar are for the guitar after modification. If you buy this guitar and plan to play it stock, you may likely be disappointed. I got the thing on a closeout and thought I would see what I could do with it. See my modifications below.

With the new pickups, the guitar can go from nice clean (almost twangy) to fire-breathing monster. Clean or high volume/high gain, it sounds just fine. I have used the guitar with a variety of amps including a Peavey 5150 combo, Mesa Dual Rectifier, and a Peavey Bandit. At home I put it through an Allen Class Act combo. Sounds great for grunge (of course), hard rock, metal, and so on. It wouldn't be my first choice for country, jazz, semi-hollow body-type stuff...

I once had a guitarist in another band laugh at me when I took my Jag-Stang out of its case (yes, I bought a nice tolex case for it) while getting setup to play a battle of the bands-type show. "What a piece of sh**," says he. Yeah, well, I plugged it in to a Peavey 5150 and this guy's jaw dropped. His next comment was something like, "Wow, that piece of sh** sounds friggin' sweet...let's see that thing." What a knucklehead! It wouldn't sound as nice stock I'm afraid.

One tone that I don't use often is the out-of-phase setting that is available with this axe. Putting the selector switches in opposite directions yields a ratty, funky, lo-fi sound that would be difficult to reproduce with many other guitars.

The guitar is not noisy, although the Texas Special can yield a bit of noticeable 60 cycle hum. All-in-all it sounds great for what it does.

I should mention modifications. First, I stripped off the vintage-style tuners in favor of some high-grade Schaller locking tuners. Next, I dumped the stock pickups and added a Seymour Duncan JB humbucker for the bridge and a Fender Texas Special single coil bridge pickup for the neck (instead of the designated Texas Special neck pickup). Then, I took electrical tape (as described at www.jag-stang.com) and secured the bridge to keep it from moving back and forth. After that, I installed Schaller straplocks. Finally, I opened up the tremolo plate, removed the springs, and locked down the tailpiece. FWIW, the tailpiece can be locked down using 6mm screws (yes, good ol' metric), metric nuts, and metric washers. After the changes, this guitar does not go out of tune.

The guitar's action on the low E measures out at 6/64" at the 17th fret without a capo at the first fret. The action at the high E is closer to 4/64 or 5/64" with very little truss rod relief. A little higher action is needed on this guitar's 7.25" radius fretboard to avoid buzzing, but even with this setup, the guitar is incredibly easy to play.

My guitar does not seem to have the same problems that have plagued some other reviewers. The paint job on mine isn't quite as fragile, the wood is holding up just fine, and it hasn't fallen apart, but then again, I'm not using it as a skateboard either.

I expect it to do well. I gig with it without problems, but I have other guitars, too. Again, everything is great after modifying the daylights out of it. The main thing for me is that the guitar must stay in tune and produce useable tones without microphonic feedback or other problems. It does what I ask it to do. Get one cheap, make the changes, and then enjoy it for what it is.

Called them on the phone once. Everything was fine and they answered my questions.

Before mods, this guitar gets a 5. After mods, it gets an 8. I have been playing for about 12 years or so. I also own a Fender U.S. Fat Telecaster, a Peavey Wolfgang Special, and a Gibson Les Paul Special. I would buy it again, knowing that I could change it. In fact, I have been toying with the idea of having Fender make me a Custom Shop Jag-Stang with a different bridge setup and some other features, but we'll wait and see about that.

Like all Jag-stang guitars my was made in Japan. 22 frets, Vol. and Tone controls, two two position pickup switches, 1 single coil pickup at the neck position and a humbucker at the bridge. The body is made out of Basswood and the finish is in Fiesta Red. The neck is a wierd "termo-shit" thing that can be lowered down to a stoptail (much better).
The guitar is beautiful!!!

The guitar sounds amazing! I play mainly blues and this guitar does the trick! The clean sounds are just perfect, You have tons and tons of different sounds with the two two position pickup switches and the vol. and tone knobs. You can boost the distortion up and this baby will handle it just fine... But if you want to creat a BEAST out of it just buy a JB humbucker and put it in the bridge and you will get the best sounding guitar ever! a Lot of people think that if you write good stuff about the Jag-stang or even own one you are stupid cuz' Kurt Cobain (RIP) from Nirvana co-disigned it, And the way he plays guitar he knows shit about them... WRONG! Even if you are the biggest Nirvana hater of all times and can forget that you should hate this guitar, Give it a try... Don't say I didnt told you that you might just get hooked! The only reason that I won't give it a 10 is that I had to buy the JB to it... But then again Kurt installed a JB on his right as he got it!

Great action, BEST FENDER NECK IN THE WORLD! Perfect for small hands and very good for playing at high speeds! Might take a little while to get used to, But you will be happy to own a guitar with this kind of small neck! The factory pickups are not the best and where setup pretty well (Humbucker had to be raised just a little). The only reason I am giving a 9 here is that the switching buttons are "at the way" when you are playing hard (Located on top of the pickguard).

This guitar is made for LIVE and LOUD playing! a Sound that will rock the audience and a look that will surly dazle them!

Never dealed with them.

One of the best sounding guitar it the world! And surly one of the most beautiful! a Real masterpiece... If you liked the Mustang BUT IT! If you have a band and want a great guitar with great looks and all the sounds you will ever want from a real FENDER!!!!

* The guitar stays in tune well after a good setup!!

The features are as sweet as can be , i mean look at the damn thing its a bueat , so features this baby gets a ten. The metal , coming out of the pick gaurd very nice , the sparkly white, very nice. The nobes are mustangy and the shape is made perfect i love it , kurts the man, and the frets are easy to hit and so on. cool head stock also, just overall kick a**!

Well i play grunge , mostly nirvana , don't care if grunge is dead it ,still agunist.Which is nice, i use a dod grunge petal , and this guitar is great for distortion and getting different sounds you can really play around and get almost and sound you want. THis guitar isn't for some one who wants a nice sound like someone who plays blues or somthing, but if you don't play shitty music then this is the guitar for you. great sound

easy to play , setups great , pickups could be better but they will do . The only flaw i can see is that it goes out of tune alot but that can be fix , easyly. The feel is really nice it fits nice when played , and is light on your neck. rock on!

This baby is as durabile as a guitar can get , every thing was made very strong and sterddy. you can most definaltely can relie on it, if i were ever to smash it , i would definately have to hit a good dozen times before it broke.

I haven't had to deal with the company yet ,

i ve been playing for 10 years and this is a kickass guitar, good if you like grunge for sure , so buy it. i choose this guitar cause it looked kickass , and i still like it cause it plays nice to. If it were stolen , i would cry a bit , then id kick the guys ass who took it after that i would probally laugh, then i would probally cry relizeing i lost my baby, then id laugh again remebering the time i hit the guy whos stole my guitar with my foot,ha ha ha , what a good time that was , ha ha ha , then id probally cry again. Ha then id laugh once more remebering the time i hit a bunny on the side of the road , then i would cry remebering the way fluffy look at me , sniff..then id laugh rembereing the time i ate a bug by acedent.

I don't now when it was made: between '95 and '98 (when I got it).
Has 22 frets, but quite small - for my lanky fingers anyway.
"Sonic Blue" colour - shiny and plasticky looking, but it has a very nice-looking pearl pickguard.
It has an In/Off/Out phase switch for each pickup, the neck single-coil and the bridge humbucker.

DARK SOUNDING
The neck pickup is absolute shite, especially when distorted. The bridge humbucker is much better, more powerful and fat and grinding and WICKED. Clean-wise, either pickup is OK(ish), although there is one particular combination which sounds very tinny.
For some reason, I can't get a good bass sound out, anywhere along the low E and A strings, it sounds cluncky and muddy.
This guitar was obviously meant for GRUNGE and GRUNGE only. I now play more diverse music, and I can start to see the limitations in this axe - you need to be permanently suicidal to enjoy its sounds.
Solo-type stuff is not catered for amazingly.
I found that this guitar gives a lot of ground-loop/whatever hum even on clean, which miraculously disappears when any metal part is touched.
I play through a Marshall VS100, with a Boss DS-1 and HM-3 and a Dunlop Crybaby Wah occasionaly, as well as a Digitech RP-3 multi.

Out of the shop, I had no end of problems.
1. It can't stay in tune to save its life - this is now reduced by the shop people fiddling the bridge.
2. DON'T USE THE WHAMMY BAR - unless you want to sound like you've never tuned your guitar ever.
3. Dodgy frets which limited string-bends somehow until I got them fixed.
4. The action was too low and the pickups were too high
5. The bridge string-things were not smoothed so my A-string snapped once a week.
6. The neck-end strap button pulled straight out of the wood after I had it for about 4 months.
Apart from that it was FINE.

If Mr Cobain could use this then I am sure I can without breaking it. The paint doesn't look at all scratched, and the rest of the wood looks fine.
I am always nervous about the tuning problems when playing live, although if you are playing grunge-power chords this does not matter.
It creaks dangerously when bending strings, so if I onnly had the one guitar at the gig I would have to be careful.

When I first started playing I thought Kurt Cobain Was God, and wouldn't consider buying a different guitar at the time. 3 or 4 years on, I am beginning to regret that. My musical tastes have altered, and the guitar cannot always supply my needs.
I feel a bit of a gimp playing "KURT COBAIN'S GUITAR" 6 years on from his expiration.
It definitely looks different and alternative which is good.
If I had to buy a new guitar now I would not buy a JagStang again, I prefer the Les Paul look and sound now anyway.

Mine was made in 96. It's got a 22 fret board, and small toyish neck with small toyish frets, that i love to death, its perfect for grunge (power chords) wich is all i play. It's got 2 slide swiches
back-foward-off and of corse you can slide it out of phase. And its got 1volume 1tone in a chrome kinda spearshaped area attached to the pickguard and i love the way that is (just like the mustang) H/S.
The pickups i think are great all you have to do is hide behind a wall of distortion and clean depressed sound and this is the ultamite dream (a perfect example explaining this sound is "heart shaped box" from NIRVANA) You canbuy these in sonic blue or fiesta red, i've got a fiesta red one. The body is a half JAGuar and half muSTANG. This guitar doesn't do good at staying in tune but to take care of that just lok the bridge down and screw in some loking tuners and you've got tour self a better dream than what you've started out with. It's got a mustang floating bridge on it.

Like i said all i play is grunge
mostly NIRVANA and a little ALICE IN CHAINS) and it is great for dark depressing clean sounds and good for dark, depressing, and grinding distortion. you can get 10 or more positions at the least, you can get a ton o' killer sounds out of it, you could get twangy country to heavy metal to grunge. The only dislike that i can think of is it's poor ability to stay in tune. Everything else i absolutly love.

Well i got it used so i don't know about the factory crap. But i raised the pu's alittle bit.

DUDE This guitar was designed by the gratest man that ever breathed on this planet and he played ruff on his guitars so obviuosly this won't break down that easy. The finish is rock hard. The hardware seems like it wouldn't last all of a computer person't life but for a grungeys life span (like mine) they will last. The strap buttons arent real good good but they're okay.
this guitar will be around way after i'm gone.

Never wasted theyre pethetic time.

This guitar is the best guitar. i would dream about it but me being a unique weesel i dream about indians picking my nose with popsicles. But any who this guitar is my dream guitar i can't believe that i could play such a grat guitar without somebody customly building it for me. KURT was a mastermind if KURT had something to do with a guitar that he was serious about and didn't smash you know it's a good guitar. KURT we miss you dearly
ps:Please send me an e-mail if you wanna chat about music guitars whatever i like meeting cool people and chating with 'em.

It is a great guitar. It's got two three way switchs on it to turn on-off-and out of phase each pick up. The tuners suck and so does the bridge until you lock it down. But I love it.

The sound is great even with the crappy pickups that fender stuffed in them. I am going to slap a DiMarzio Super Distortion in the brigde. But I am not sure what I am going to do with the neck pick/up yet. But even with the drawbacks it has with the p/ups it still sound wonderful.

You can't beat the shape of a Jag-stang. I personal think they look awesome and I know a lot of people who do too. I think it is very comfortable sitting down or standing up.

Oh hell yeah, solid as a rock.

Never had a single problem with it but Fender has a good reputation of Customer Support

Badass guitar, don't know what the hell else to say, Badass guitar.

I've got a first year (95) Jag-Stang, I traded my beat to hell duct taped 60s mustang for it the minute i saw it. Maybe a victim of marketing, maybe cliched? Well **** you! Kurt was an excellent guitarist and had a real style both in playin guitars and his choice of instrument. You know all the specs by reading other reviews. I love the mustang pickup config, I like to use the "off" position to create tremolo sounds by jerking the selector back and forth. The neck (on early models) has a beautiful (maple?) finish. Later years have an ugly ash looking neck. Fast and short, great for those low e-string bends and slides that kurt liked so much. Goes out of tune alot. The original pick guard is ugly, so i threw a red one on-- beautiful.

The neck pickup sucks. The humbucker is fair, great for dostortion. I like to put the pickups into different phases to make cool sounds, more novel than useful though.

The guitar plays fine. The old mustang style bridge has a tendency to lose a screw now and then, and the wah bar? Forget it! My guitar was well finished when i got it. The finish has chipped off, painted, gummed up with stickers, etc. I wish they'd use a primer.

SONIC BLUE is a great colour.

SOLID. The essence of this guitar is abuse. Neck bends, face plants into my amp... I've smashed TVs with it, dropped it, played it by laying it on the floor and standing on it. It still plays well.

I took it to a luthier back in 95. He laughed. But most of those guys around there are shlock-rocker Fender purists who polish their guitars with diapers. Maybe my F**K Authority bumper sticker across the front put him off...

I give it a ten. I mean there are much better guitars out there, but this Geek Guitar will have a great place in guitar history, sort of the GodFather of the new generation of Fender wierdo axes. Plus, I love all the ridicule that Kurt and his instrument gets from long haired knock rocker sales guys. I hate those shlups, buy online!

My Fender Jag-stang is a Fender 50th anniverary model (This is known by the gold sticker on the back of the headstock below the one that says "Designed by Kurt Cobain"). It has one of the fastest necks i have ever felt in my life, I have tried two of these guitars and the necks kick butt. The fingerboard is rosewood with 22 vintage style frets and pearl dots. The body is a basswood three piece design. The electronics are (Well, were) immaculate. Everything is sheilded and noise free. It has a volume, a tone, and two three way pickup selectors. The bridge is a Fender Dynamic tailpice vibrato with a rocker bridge. The tuners are Fender vintage Kluson reproductions on a wide 1962-1981 era Fender "Wide" headstock.

I bought this guitar customized but I did play a stock one in another store for a few hours before deciding on this one. I would probably give the stock Jag-Stang a nine because it's a bit noiser and not as heavey sounding as my customized axe. Put some EMG's in a Jag-Stang and it's like instant "Ride The Lightining" era Metallica. My guitar was customized with an EMG SA single coil (Neck Position), and an EMG 81 (Bridge Position). The Stock Jag-Stang has a Fender Texas Special Strat in the neck, and a Predecessor to the Fender Atomic humbucker in the bridge. But as i say, this guitar is much better with replacement pickups, much better. My setup has two amps, a late 70's Peavey Backstage 30 with a 10" speaker, and an Epiphone SC28 Stereo Chorus amplifier, and a 1980's DOD super overdrive. This guitar is consistant on all amps with the EMG's, The neck position is a nice, warm, but sparkly sound thats great for playing parts used on a acoustic guitar. But, when you flip the switch over to the other side you get this built in bluesy overdrive setting, great for emulating an overdriven tube amp. The bridges two settings differ just slightly. One is more trebely than the other. It's kind of like the switch has a Jazzmaster like rhythym circut built into the switch on one side. Great for swapping between playing riffs, solos, and chords.
Put any jag-Stang through a distortion pedal and it sounds like an apocolypse waiting to happen.

I bought it used and it was contrary to all of the complaints about Jag-Stangs I have heard. The set up was so fast you can play "Eruption" (A guitar solo played by Eddie Van-Halen) on this thing and it would stay in tune, have no buzzes or creaks, and the tremelo would work like a dream. People always complain about this guitars bridge system but I belive it's better than many of the locking whammy bar systems out there. If set up right you can get a Jag-Stang to have as much tuning stability, even with light strings, as a Superstrat with a Floyd Rose or Kahler. A Suggestion to all whom might buy this guitar with metal in mind, Use Fender Bullet 9's with a 40 or 42 low E for the best travel and tuning stability. The only flaws this thing has is if the lights just right, you can see where the wood on the sides of the body meet the center section, plus you can see the finish is just slightly less than professional looking job. But hell it's Sonic Blue (And I'm sure others have the Fiesta Red ones) and those colors don't show painting mistakes well at all. Otherwise the finish is another of the guitar's strong suits, It's got like 5mm's of paint on the body. You could drop this thing off the Eifel Tower and the finish would break the guitars fall.

This guitar will withstand a bomb blast. The weakest thing on it are the pivot points on the tremelo. I have taken it out live many times (If you call a few gigs with the High School Jazz Ensamble and a School Guitar Concert a live performance, not to mention dragging it around school out of its case) and this thing will withstand all the destructive student crowd can throw at it. I have even had friends who don't even play guitar manhandle this thing and it comes out without a problem. As i said before the finish will last longer than the guitar itself, the strap buttons can stand at least 50 foot pounds of pressure, and i would gig with this thing without a backup even if I had an all aluminum guitar that could hurt everyone but me. But otherwise I have two others I play with this thing that are on the same par as this one, an extensiveley modified Kramer Focus 3000 (Bought stock and customized constantly over the last six years I have had it), and a Harmony S2 that has been modified to the hilt.

Never needed customer support on anything musical within the past 4 years.

I have been playing six years and this is the first step to the weird but cool guitars I want to own (Jaguar's, Jazzmaster's, Bronco's, and Mustang's). If it were stolen I don't think I could remain sane. I love everything about this guitar, I almost consider it a second wife to my first electric. She stand's up with my other best guitar, My Modified Kramer Focus 3000, built like a battleship and great sound along with it.

the jag-stang is a japan-produced guitar made around 92 by the late Kurt Cobain. It has 22 frets with two vintage tuners for master tone and volume. It has a single coil pickup at the neck and a humbucker at the bridge. They are standard, crappy pickups from fender. It has a nice maple neck with a rosewood fretboard, and the body is basswood finished in Sonic Blue with a mother of pearl pickguard.The make is a mixture between a fender jaguar and mustang, and that's what gives it a cool, retro look. It has a vibrato bridge, and a super thin neck(great for tough chords)

this guitar was made for supressed grunge and it fits it's title. It has a great pulse like sound when distorted and a sharp, crisp clean sound when not. I try not to use aids like pedals and stuff like that. I just plug in and jam out. It has approximately 9 potential settings due to the two three way switches. I love everything but the vibrato bridge. It is a pain to keep in tune and the stiff, constrictive bar gets in the way and limits your freedom while picking. I love everything else

pickups are a little fuzzy, but i work around em. the craftsmenship and work are almost flawless(except for a small dent in the back approx. 11mm) The only flaws were plastic shavings feom the edges of the pickguard.

i have a more stable guitar for live stuff, this one is too risky. The hardware is in great shape and though the chrome has tarnished some, they have a long way to go. I take special care of it and so far I havn't even nicked it. The strap buttons are great, i don't need tape or anything. I'd always take a backup guitar, no matter what kind of guitar it is.

i never needed to call fender. the guys at BC rich have attitudes, though.

This guitar is cool, fun, versatile, and pretty. I'd never give it up. Besides, it's discontinued

I bought my Jag-stang back in 1997 and never really got around to using it. It wasn't the greatest guitar in the world--everything was stock, and anyone who owns one of these knows that a stock Jag-stang is a bunch of crap--but it was something for me to fool around with and I knew that it could become a good guitar with some work. After reading some suggestions on here and at jag-stang.com, I started making some major mods. The vintage vibrato tailpiece kept the guitar from maintaining correct tuning for over five minutes, so I stripped out the springs and locked it down. The floating bridge wouldn't stay in place, so I wrapped some thick electrical tape around the struts to get it to hold tight. The pickup switches were in the absolute wrong place for my type of playing, so I took em out and put in a simple Tele-style 3-way switch below the pickups (which goes between the bridge humbucker, bridge "coil cut"/neck single coil, and neck single coil)--this required some routing, but that's no big deal. I also had everything shielded and grounded to get rid of that 60 cycle hum. Going to get some locking tuning heads at some point, and once I'm finished with the major corrections, I'll probably start in on some cosmetic changes, like a new pickguard and different pot knobs.

The stock pickups are fine for someone who doesn't care one bit for the sound of their guitar, but for anyone who's in the least bit serious, these things have got to go. I play an MBV/Slowdive style "shoegaze," with a lot of fuzz, modulation, and delay effects. I replaced the stock humbucker with a used Seymour Duncan JB--I'm not a huge fan of humbuckers, but it was readily available, and I have it coil cut to produce a single coil sound. I'm currently experimenting with different single coils in the neck position. Basically, anything's better than what comes with the guitar, but it can sound good if you find what you're looking for.

Frankly, it's been so long since I bought this that I don't even know how the bridge was set up. I know that I had to adjust the pickups as soon as I got home. I totally rewired the guitar when I put in the JB and new pickup switch, which helped a lot--I noticed that there were some bad solder joints on the old selector switches. As I mentioned above, the vibrato system kept the strings out of tune, so that had to lock down. The music I play relies a bit on the whammy effect, but I had to sacrifice that for the good of the guitar and have settled for a decent whammy pedal instead. No prob. The neck hasn't given me any problems, though I've been in contact with Warmoth about getting one with a boat-shaped back and a 11/16" nut width (instead of the stock 5/8" width). This is all personal preference, though, and it's fine for the time-being.

To tell the truth, I haven't played live since buying this guitar, but I'm almost ready to give it a try. Not too sure about the finish, since I haven't had much experience in such things, but things seem solid enough. I wouldn't play any gig without a backup, so it won't be alone anytime soon.

Never tried.

This guitar is going to require a lot of work, and there's no one way to go about fixing it up. I'm finding that it only gets better with every mod I make, and since they've fallen so out of favor with so many guitarists, it's going to be better to fix it up than to sell it for a couple hundred of bucks. If it were stolen, I'd probably go ahead and save up and get a good Jazzmaster, but it'll do until that day.

This is the custom model Kurt Cobain designed for Fender in blahblah yadda yadda- y'know the story. More Mustang than Jaguar (metal control plate, slider switches, weird tremelo..) the only real Jagaur feature i can see is the extended butt (right side. Neck single coil/ bridge humbucker configuration, 'sonic blue' finish basswood body, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard. Surprisingly fast neck, with the right strings and action- real comfy to play. Essentially 4 sounds available with slider switche Tip on tremelo use.... pull the whammy bar up, then tune up. Whenever you do some serious whammy-action, just pull the arm up again, the tuning should be pretty good.

First off, the bridge humbucker is very under-powered. No way near Cobain' tone (not that that's a bad thing). Manipulate your amp's EQ to make the best of it. I've recently found that overdriving the clean channel on my amp and playing hard improves the tone on both pickups- ideal for Cobain-esque powerchording but a little too nasty for Gilmour style soloing. The single coil can do a good Pixies-sound with a harsh treble sound. I recommend buying this guitar with a new bridge h/b. i plan to stick a JB in there once i can get the cash together.
But, i found the grimmy, harsh pickups fit extremely well to lo-fi kinda tunes, really cutting, so for once my sound doesn't get lost behind the bassist's noodlings.
DO NOT buy this guitar for a Cobain sound, unless you wanna hand some government greens over to the Semour Duncan estate.. be original, experiment with it...

Considering the target audience of this axe would be guitar-bashing grunge kids, the 9's the Jagstang came fitted with seemed a little ridiculous- so get a set of 11's, a file to sort out the nut and an allan wrench to sort out the imminent string buzz. The action was pretty good, when I got it, hardly any buzz and good intonation. The pickups needed to be jacked-up, but overall a pretty good set-up.

I have owned this guitar since the summer of '97 and have had very few problems with it- I was told that fitting heavier strings would require a truss rod adjustment, but being the lazy mong i am, couldn't be arsed, and I haven't had any trouble with the neck at all. I have used this as my main guitar at about 5 gigs, with no problems.
The only minor niggle was that i had to replace the volume pot about 4 months ago, due to excessive noise and generally drop-outs in the sound. Only a few minor dents- one from when I dropped it into my drummer's cymbal stand the day after i got it- d'oh! so i got strap locks ( a very good descision). The original buttons are good, just a little too small for jumping around with the guitar. I always take a backup guitar to gigs, if only in case i break a string, or use a different tuning.

Never needed to contact 'em

I had 'on and off' periods with this guitar, sometimes prefering my old Strat copy with bridge h/b for the sound and weight- although the J-S is a fairly light guitar-. But, that Strat's gonna be smashed soon hehe. I like the playability of this guitar alot, due to the thin comfy neck. As soon as i get my JB for the bridge, this guitar will be really cool. At the mo, I've got an Ibanez S-270, but i don't think this Fender'll will take a back seat- different guitars for different situations. Don't buy this and expect to sound like Kurt- first get some talent, then BE ORIGINAL!! follow your heart- the way this guitar didn't sound like Nirvana helped me to experiment with sounds, not just using Kurt's.

Just the right amount of bell and whistles to keep your average punk rocker happy. 2 pick-ups which are not the greatest in the world, but no too bad. A humbucker at the bridge, single coil in the neck position. Each pick-up has its own 3 way selector switch (hi-off-low). I usually use the bridge pick up because the single coil is a noizy piece of monkey sh*t. The humbucker delvers very good tone, but you can probably do better. Me, I'm lazy and it'll probably stay in there. THE TOP FEATURE has to be the bridge. I'm not sure if its the bridge of a Jaguar or a Mustang, but it sits up high and the strings go UNDER the bridge instead of on top. This allows a greats spot to rest your palm while playing; I told you I'm lazy. It also allows you to get some cool twang sounds.

I play it through a Fender Ultra Chorus (guess what my favorite company is) and the whole set up is great. Perfect for anything remotely punk, save ultra-metalic hardcore.

I love the action, but the finish is kind of messed up on mine. I think the previous owner mishandled it though.

I too beat the crap out of it. I play very hard and fast. I jump around like a chicken who's head was just cut off. I run into the crowd, PA towers, other band members, tables, off the stage, ect, a lot during a set and the Jag-stang never fails. Even when my strap breaks and it crashes to the floor it stays in tune.

I bought it used.

I'd actually give it a 8.5 but I guess I have to round up because the pick list only contains positive integers. Anywho...it rocks. When I first bought it a few months ago I thought that it was the greatest guitar in the world. I now am well aware of its flows, still I love this guitar. I looks better than any other guitar, save the Squier Supersonic (my other "axe") and the Mostrite Ventures model. Actually, its very similar to the Supersonic, the main difference being in the pickups and the bridge. I like the Supersonics pickups better but unfortunately it has a Strat style bridge which I don't like as much. Other guitars that it nearly mirrors are practically all of the non-Strat/Tele Fenders. You know, the Bronco's, 1960's Duo Sonic's, Jaguars, Mustangs. Much better than the Tornado, Fenders replacement. Why do they, Fender, do that? They make a great guitar for a few years, like the Squier Vista's, Bronco's, etc...then they're gone for good. D'OH!!!

This guitar was built in Japan. I am not sure when. 22 frets. Basswood body. 1x Vol, 1x Tone, 2x 3-way. S/H configuration. Some interesting setups can be made with the 2 3-way switches-one for each pickup. This is a stunning guitar similar to a Jaguar. I simply fell in love with this guitar the minute I saw it hanging in the shop. It has a floating trem, which is very unstable for tuning at the best of times. The low E seems to go out of tune after about 4 songs. The tuners ae pretty cheap and would need upgrading. These are minor problems though. I bought this guitar because of the way it looks.

I play Rock'n'Roll (think Aerosmith, Rolling Stones, Kiss, etc). I am using it through a Marshall JCM2000 100W head, with a Marshall Guvnor overdrive pedal and a 1960A angled 4x12. The sound is reasonably good. Not much sustain though. And the sounds don't feel too deep. there certainly needs to be more mid. I guess it would be a good guitar for grunge/hardcore stuff like that. I think with some better pickups it would be the ultimate guitar.

The guitar seems pretty well built. I think the finish is not so good though, easy to break off so take care. No problems with straplocks or anyting else. I know I could depend on this guitar for a gig with no backup.

I have never dealt with Fender. Fortunately.

I've been playing for about 18 months. I have two US strats, an Ibanez RG and a Gibson Explorer. As i said I play through a Marshall 100W head and Marshall Guvnor O/D pedal. This is by far the most stunning guitar I have ever seen. I love it's agressive looks, just the way it hangs, everything about the style kicks every other guitars ass off the planet. Compared to my strat it isn't as playable. and it doesn't sound as fat and bluesy. I wish it had better pickups. I'll upgrade those too. If it were stolen I'd go on a rampage, trash lots of stuff, then cry for a bit, become an alcoholic, then buy another one.

I think this guitar was made in '94 or close to that. It was made in Japan and it is basswood. The basswood is cool, because it is very lightweight, but it isn't high quality wood. I've had 3 screws strip in 1 month. I like the pickup selectors, but they do seem to get in the way when playing hard. I really like the phase out, it's cool for some neat tricks. One humbucker and one single coil. The humbucker is weaker than most single coils and sounds completely horrible. The single coil sounds even worse. I plan to put in a seymour Duncan JB and a fender red lace sensor in very soon. The finish looks alright, but cracks very easily so watch out for that. I absolutely love the way this guitar looks. If you didn't already know, it's a cross between a mustang and a jaguar designed by Kurt Cobain. The reason I bought this guitar is because of how nice it looks, but it will be perfect when I modify it. It has a mustang bridge and a "dynamic" tremelo. My advice is to lock the tremelo down or you'll never stay in tune. Also, thetuners are bad. The bridge also rattles, but you can fix that with some tape (see www.jag-stang.com). The neck is excellent. It is a mustang neck, very thin and comfortable although it may not be for everyone. It is so slick and I love it (the neck). Rosewood fretboard with dot inlays and pretty small frets. I got this guitar used for 250$ with a gig bag, so they are not too expensive nowadays, but they might be in the future. This guitar has some neat features, especially after you modify them.

I play mostly grunge/alternative type of wierd stuff like early 90's seattle music and stuff like that. But I also play a bit of blues and classic rock as well. I use a fender deluxe 112 90 watt amp and a big muff pedal, a rat pedal, a morley chorus pedal and sometimes a flanger. This guitar sounds very thin and weak. No matter how you adjust the pick-up selectors, it sounds pretty bad. I really don't like the sound at all, I mean there is worse, but not much worse. This guitar has NO sustain. It's very plunky. It's pretty noisy, especially with distortion, but i use feedback sometimes, so I like that. This guitar has what looks like a lot of pickup configurations, but there really aren't that many, and they don't sound good anyway. Not much variety. The only thing I like about the pickups is the phase out which can be cool sometimes. Overall, this guitar sounds really bad, new pickups would definently be the way to go here.

The action is flexible. You just adjust the bridge. It's cool because you don't have to take off the strings to do this, so that is a plus. You can get low action or high action, but if you go too low, you will get string buzzing. The wood isn't great as far as holding screws is concerned, but it is very very lightweight.

The hardware is decent, but like I said, the wood might not hold it forever. The finish cracks very easily, so if you don't mind scratches, cracks and maybe even chunks of wood from your guitar than you could thrash around with it. If you don't move around a lot while playing than you won't have to worry about this. My strap buttons fell out after one month. I put them back on with bigger screws and they fell out again. This is not very solid, but if you use glue or something, than you could play live with it. I would depend on it after modifications, but not before. I'd gig without a backup, because i don't have a great backup.

I think this had a one year warranty when bought new, but i bought it used. I wouldn't even bother with fender though, they have a bad reputation in this area, so i wouldn't rely on them. I did get some pamphlets with the guitar about fender guitars though, but they didn't even have the jag-stang in it.

I've been playing for a couple of years and own a squire strat, an alvarez acoustic a samick guitar, a yamaha pacifica and a yamaha bass. I also have an 80's peavey bandit 112, a fender deluxe 112, peavey rage 158 and a peavey bass amp and some effects pedals. I wish I would have had a better sense of tone before buying this guitar, the looks really got me. If it were stolen, I would probably buy a jaguar , jazzmaster or a mustang, especially now that it's becoming harder to find a jag-stang. I love the look, and hate the sound of this guitar. This is going to be a very cool guitar once i get 1) locking tuners 2) seymour duncan JB 3) Fender lace sensor red 4) new bridge 5) straplocks
have fun

Wonderful design, great looking, and I like the phase switching and the thin neck. The body is basswood and the fretboard is rosewood.

Poor. Replaced the stock humbucker with a distortion humbucker and that seemed to help. I use it through a Crate half-stack and a Fender M-80 and it's allright.

Poor. The guitar's schematics are confusing as hell, the dynamic vibrato bridge doesn't stay in tune for shit, and the finish and wood aren't holding up very well these days.

I wouldn't depend on this guitar, but I use it live and it's fun to play.

Never dealt with them, bought this secondhand, so no warranty.

after replacing the humbucker and disconnectin the trem spring to stabilize the tuning, this becomes a decent guitar. I use for a Db Modal tuning, and so I don't have any idea what ranges or styles it can or cannot accompany, but I do enjoy the guitar despite all it quirks. It's a fun hobby guitar, and certainly more worth it than any shitkicking Ibanez. I would recommend this to people who have time and money to fix it up to their liking.

22 Frets, 1 Volume, 1 Tone, S/H, Cheap stock pickups. I've changed the stock humbucker in the bridge to a Seymoure Duncan JB. I haven't gotten around to changing the neck pickup but I hardly use it anyway so it doesn't matter. I'm not sure if it's the neck or just me, but I wear my guitar low and sometimes it's hard to play the higher notes.

I play Grunge/Punk and it fits my style really well. I used it with a Fender M-80 Chorus, and it sounds awesome. The single coil neck pickup hums but I never use it so that's ok. The tone knob also hums when you turn it up high, but if it's low it's realy quiet.

The action is pretty good for my taste, not too high not too low. The only falw the guitar has is that the pickguard sticks up just barely on the corner. The bridge pickup selector broke but that got fixed easily by Fender.

I'm pretty rough on my equipment but I think it is pretty durable. I haven't broken anything yet. The tuners seem kind of cheap but the rest is pretty good. Finish is nice, I've given it a few scratches and dents though. Strap buttons are nice and solid. Definately dependable. It would never even cross my mind to play a gig with a backup.

The pickup selector broke and I just took it to a luthier, he called Fender and the fixed it. Not sure how long the warranty is but it was still under when I got it fixed.

Been playing a couple years, it's only my second electric but I like it better than a lot of guitars on the market. Not too expensive either, no one seems to be selling them for the list price of $600.00. If it were stolen I would break lots of stuff and then go look for another. I wish the tremelo was taken out, it doesn't stay in tune if you even bump it. Over all I've fallen in love with the guitar.

Japanese made with a sft/light wood body and the tone volume controls. The bridge was one of those wierd Fender ones which you see on surf guitars... but without the trem arm. The pickups are what really got me. A humbucker in the bridge with a single coil in the neck; the switching was basically on/off/out-of-phase I think (by the sound). Tuners were the cheap Japanese Fender type. The neck was wierd - really narrow and pretty thick. The scale must have been about 22 inches or something because I couldn't fit my fingers in between the frets past the 12th. Silly? Yup.

This is where the guitar should have been shot. The pickups sound absolutely terrible. After goofing around with these things for ages and trying all the different pickup configs I could think of, I couldn't get a sound which was what one could call remotely warm or full. The bridge humbucker is really bad. It's almost like a cheap single coil in tone. The neck wasn't too bad, although I haven't heard worse yet...
This guitar makes a really squealy sound with almost no depth whatsoever - horrible (eurgh). It makes overdrive a chore to play because the sound grates your ears. I'm sure changing the pickups would do something for this guitar, but for the price, I've played a Squire Strat which sounded SOOOOOOO much better...

Well, it was a friend's guitar and so I can't really comment.

This guitar wasn't very heavy, so I'm not too sure whether it would hold up particularly well if you took it out of its case, let alone played it live. It went out of tune when I tried a little vibrato, as well, which can't bide well for it. I guess I'd have to play guitar like the designer.

I've been playing for five and a bit years now, and yes I must say I haven't played a huge variety of guitars. I have tried out top range Ibanez guitars in shops, as well as a couple of others, but when is that ever a gauge of how a guitar sounds?
After playing this guitar for the length of time I did, there certainly are lots of questions that spring to mind. Like for instance, how did this guitar ever get to the production line? Why these pickups?
I don't think there's anything about this guitar that I particularly like. The switching system certainly was novel, although highly impractical (how are you supposed to tremolo pick with these things in the way), but that's it. I must confess, being more of a metal orientated guitarist (the style if not the music), this guitar was not very good at all. The neck was too short, there was a HUGE block of wood at the 17th fret (like 99% of bolt-ons), the frets were too small, the bridge was wierd - no palm muting, the colour was gross (mint green? ARGH!), the neck was FAR too thick and the strings were also too close together.
I normally play a Yamaha Pacifica 512 (before their designer left Yamaha - along with the greatest invention for the bolt-on guitar; the Total-Access neck joint) which is a tremendous guitar. I've stuck a Dimarzio Evolution in the bridge, and a Dimarzio Breed is going in the neck. Considering that you could probably get them for about the same price now (the Yam is nearly a ten year old guitar), I'd go for the Yam every time. Just an all-round better guitar.
I guess this guitar (Jag-Stang) was designed by somebody who never ventured past the fifth fret of the guitar, and you can tell when you play it, or listen to any Nirvana CD.
Do yourself a favour and get an Ibanez RG or something.

There are already a huge number of entries on this guitar, so let me be brief and keep it to my opinions and modifications. I have it set up with aftermarket Seymour Duncan high output pickups in both humbucker and single coil positions. The one thing I don't really like on this guitar is the position of the pickup selector three position switches, I'm thinking about putting switch covers on them to prevent them from being knocked around too much while playing. The cheap Fender tuners are a bit on the cheesy side, and would be a good item to upgrade for higher quality tuning in the future. Likewise with the frets, they are a bit on the thin side, but with the of thisshort scale length you really don't want jumbos on this neck, another possible upgrade.

The beauty of this guitar is the rich palette of sounds it can produce. I use it for classic clean surf sounds with tons of reverb and tremelo through a Fender Bassman head and a Marshall 2 x 12 cab. It makes for beautiful runs and double picking, although the low E does go out of tune after three songs or so of intense douple picking, but most guitars do that anyway. For this sound I use both pickup switches in the neck position. The Jag Stang does a truly hot overdriven blues sound with the humbucker polarity switched back to the bridge position through the Bassman head using an Ibanez TS9 tube screamer retrofitted to the TS808 brown tone. For the heavy rock rythym and lead work I use the Jag-Stang through my B amp which is a Marshall JCM800 and a 1960A 4 x 12 cab. The sound through this rig is absolutely mind blowing when used with an ADA MP1 preamp and a Boss flanger. The thing sounds like a friggin B52 bomber is about to land in the room! With the Marshall on a high gain setting and the tube screamer in place you can get crunch like on a Les Paul. I've been using a Digitech DSP128plus effects for reverbs and delays, and I use some vintage Electroharmonix and Ross pedals for analog chorus and wah effects. Bottom line the Jag Stang is no one trick pony, it does rythym and lead duty in a variety of classic and modern sounds. An extremely versatile and easy to play guitar.

The neck is nice and slim but the strings are not too close like some jazz guitars. It plays very smoothly for both rhthym and lead passages. I have it set-up with a low action and I use Gibson stainless steel flatwounds with a 12 guage on the high E string. Unlike some of the other reviewers, I have found my guitar, which is an early model, in fiesta red to have a durable, and high quality gloss finish. It has been bumped, knocked and sweated on profusely with no apparent damage except for a couple of minor dents.

So far so good, I have been lugging it to rehearsals and gigs for two years now and it has been reliable. I keep it in a Fender Mustand hardshell case.

Haven't had the need for it.

I have been playing for about 15 years, and I also own an Ibanez acoustic cutaway with a piezo pickup for folky stuff, a B.C. Rich Super Strat which I use for banging on, and a vintage Epiphone Casino hollowbody electric for clean jazz and blues. I'm kind of glad that Fender recently discontinued the manufacture of this guitar, since I believe it will become a collector's item someday. I plan to buy another one soon in sonic blue and to set it up a little differently. This guitar blows away the Tornado and Cyclone and is just slightly off the vintage reissues Jazzmaster in quality and playability. A very under appreciated, and extremely versatile tool for the frontman, IMHO, but not really for the purist lead player.

Unsure as to year - bought it second-hand from Sam's Music, Franklin, TN. 22 fret, rosewood neck, small scale makes lead work an adventure osrta like putting 16 ounces of liquor in a 12 ounce glass...it's a solid basswood (whatever THAT is) body, "Sonic Blue". The reason I bought it was that it was odd looking - never had seen one before, knew nothing about KC designing it, don't care. It was totally different looking, and that's what I was looking for. Came with a single coil at the neck and a humbucker at the bridge. Sounded OK in the store (isn't that always the case?) but in a live jam session, their shortcomings became immediately evident. Two selector switches for the pickups, putting each pickup on-off-on(reversed polarity), no evident change in tone except when the single coil is out of phase with the humbucker. The bridge is a horrible weird vibrato unit that wouldn't let the axe stay in tune when I got it even though I never Dive-bombed it. The tuners are "vintage" style - God, I hate that word...no case or gig bag included, Sam's did throw in a set of strings

We play classic rock, little country, some new stuff, bought guitar as a backup for my Les Paul Classic. Ok for rhythm work, but lead work is really tough, especially around the upper frets 'cause they are so close together...Use with two Peavey Deuce amps running stereo with Ibanez Tube Screamer (TS-10), Rat pedal, DOD Flashback Fuzz, and Arion Fat Chorus. Originally, the sound was thin, and if I changed from the LP to the Jag, I'd have to turn the amps UP. A LOT. As I said, the selector switches don't really make any difference except when you have both pickups on and switch the single coil out of phase with the humbucker. The pickups were really crappy, so I changed them to a Seymour Duncan Vintage Flat for the neck and a Dimarzio Tone Zone for the bridge, now I can get some good tones, especially with the single coil and the humbucker together.

The setup sucked. Had to set the intonation, pickup height. The action is surprisingly good, but still it is better suited for rhythm work 'cause of the short scale neck. The vibrato/tremolo would let the guitar go out of tune if you even looked at it, so I opened up the guitar and tightened the tension as tight as I could and lowered the weird "barrel" that serves as the tailpiece down really low and just work the vibrato with my hand without the tremolo arm, and the axe stays in tune

The finish so far seems to be ok, but then I don't drop my guitars, I know how to hold onto them so even if a strap comes loose, I'm not standing there looking at it like a drummer looking at a drumstick flying across the room...but that's another story...don't use it as my main axe, IT is the backup - use it for rhythm work on Sultans of Swing, etc.

most unfriendly folks I've ever dealt with, sorta like the folks at Gruhn Guitars; won't ever go back THERE again, either...

benn playing guitar 26 years, own Gibson LP classic 1960 reissue, a late '80s SG, a homemade Strat copy (one good guitar), numerous pedals (including homemade), PA equipment (mostly Peavey, they've always worked for me) - if it were stolen or lost, would probably get one of those Fat Telecaster thingys - never owned one. I really think the guitar looks cool, and it does play well, but it should have come with better pickups and a longer scale neck.

It has two 3-way pickup selectors, a single coil at the neck, and a humbucker at the bridge. It has a volume and a tone control, and its got 22 frets.

I play a lot of heavier stuff like metallica and Rage against the machine, but I also play a lot less heavy music at times. It sounds good for all the styles. The humbucker gives you a fuller sound, while the single coil gives you a much higher pitched sound. Also, if you use a distortion pedal, it buzzes on the single coil so I almost always use just the humbucker.

The action was a little too high so I lowered it, but I lowered it too much on the high E string, so it buzzes there on the first fret. Also the pickups are a litte too high. I play some Korn and Limp Bizkit, and I have to tune down like 6 whole steps cause they use a 7 string, and the string clicks on the pickup and sometimes gets stuck to it. Also, the Pick-guard was starting to peel when I got it, but I fixed that with some super glue.

I don't see any problems with the reliability.

I really like this guitar, and once I fix the little problems I'm sure it will be great.

This guitar was made in Japan and I wish they would have kept it there, it has 22 tiny frets, solid top, volume tone, and in and out of phase on the pickups. The "vintage style" strat pickup must have been so vintage that it was around before the invention of electricity because even with the gain on my amp turned up it sounded like a mellow acoustic. The special design humbucker should have been called the "milquetoast", or the "sh!tsucker 4000" or some clever name that would better describe the awful sound that it bruised my eardrums with. The neck was ok, for a penis. I would be proud if my d!ck was this big around, but not my guitar neck, it made playing every solo a special new adventure. The material itself was ok, the neck was gloss maple, (very pretty) and the fretboard was rosewood (wish they offered it in maple. My only complaint about the neck besides size and fretboard material is that they were two cheap to put the trademark fender "skunk stripe" on the back of the neck. The body wood was bass wood which I thought was great until every other screw in the pickguard stripped out and the straplocks I installed began to wrok their way out, it would have been easier and better if fender would have just used poplar or ash. The finish was a bit thin, but I could live with that...The thing that bothered me the most was the "fiesta red" was the color of a crayola red/orange crayon, not the way it looked in the magazine I ordered it from. The only way I could descirbe the body style is just imagine a guitar that missed a couple of chromosomes in it's developmental stages, it has a weird front point, and right after that the guitar is like 7 inches across, and then it goes back out to normal until the big retarded hump on the bottom. It looks like it started to melt and drip or somthing. The bridge style was a fender dynamic floating vibrato....I would like to throw it in a lake and see if it floats then. The tremelo arm was put in a sh!tty way too, it had a screw you had to adjust with a alan wrench, and it would either be too tight or would fall out. It has fender vintage tuners which are alright I guess. the neck was too thin as I said before, the frets were small, inadaquately spaced and seemed to be constructed from aluminum. I got two nifty alan wrenches and a fender manual that didn't have my guitar in it from the factory...and that was it.

It origionally went with my music style (grunge) about as well as liquid drano goes with mastrubation, I put in a seymour duncan sh-6 super distortion (which is a great pickup by the way) it made this guitar almost playable. The pickups from the factory would make good objects to throw at cars on halloween and that is about the extent of their use, and the noise they would make flying through some glass would be much more satisfying than they would ever make plugged in. They had a tone as warm as a eskimo's ass, and as bright as the underside of a burnt iron skillet. Now this gutiar can scream, I can't find a thing wrong with the sound, which is absofu(kinglutely great after my operation. Sound before -1,000,000,000 after 9, plan on buying some pickups....

The gutiar came from the factory set up like a log with rubber bands on it. The action was so high I could walk in under it, and the bridge rattled with a sound that could be compared to a wood bee. The three ply pickguard was splitting apart and I had to apply super glue which immeadiately pissed me off. The so called "pickups" were set ok, and everything else was ok except for the dynamic vibrato, speaking of which I ripped out the springs, turned it backwards and set it flush with the tremelo cover so it would stay in tune.

This guitar was actually tolerable after I worked on it, if you liked the color and could stand the size of the neck, you could easily play it live. The hardware seems plenty sturdy enough and the finish is fine as long as you don't abuse your gutiar like a idiot. The strap buttons need some work becasue they are starting to strip out from the crappy wood. I would depend on it and would play it at a gig without a back up.

???? Don't know, I am pissed at fender for making this thing so damn cheaply from the factory.

I have been playing for a while, I have owned or still have some crappy gutiar with no name, a harmony discovery, a encore, a squier strat, a fender acoustic, and a yamaha acoustic, and the Jag-stang. If I was freezing to death the only guitars I would hesitate to turn into firewood would be the squier strat and the fender acoustic. I think the Jag-Stang was and is Kurt Cobains curse, it was his practical joke of a gutiar, he played lots of pieces of crap and was even quoted as saying whoever designed the fender mustang should be shot. If it was stolen I would find the guy that stole it and beat him with the retarded hump on the end until the orange paint came off on his head. I love the guitar to death because it is so fu(king cool, but it really is a curse and I hate it at the same time. I wish it had (here we go) 1. a maple fretboard 2. a skunk stripe on the back of the neck, 3. a contour cut in the body 4.real pickups from the factory, 5.real switches so I wouldn't cut my knuckles on it. 6.a hardtail so it would stay in tune 7. chemotherapy to remove the cancerous lump from its body 8.poplar or ash wood body so the screws would stay in 9.a high quality pickguard that won't split apart10 a color besides orange11 basically that it was another guitar, like a strat......I guess thats it, one last word of advice, I posted the cost of this guitar at 299, but you had better be prepared to spend double that in time and money, I would want anyone to play this guitar straight from the factory and if I was fender I wouldn't have put my name on it, however fender was just trying to make a cheap piece of crap that people would shell out $$$ for because Kurt Cobain designed it.

Japanese, basswood body, retarded, unstable bridge, had to pay $100 extra for a case.

The different positions did a decent job at covering the sounds I needed. Pick-ups didn't sound bad, but they weren't great either. I used it with a axsys212 and a rolandjc120, good clean through the roland.

It played good off the rack but the bridge is terrible. The string guides move around like nothing and throw out the intonation. Poor string response, high action coupled with somewhat small frets. Cheap paint.

Boy did this thing fall apart. You barely bump it and there was a huge dent. Straplocks stripped out within a month too. Might as well have built it with balsa wood. Either the switch or the single coil itself just went. Tuning pegs rusting. I always had a backup when playing live.

The guy at the music store I bought it from went to jaill for tax evasion so i didn't bother to get it fixed.

I was really fooled by how it played brand new. The thing broke down just like it's designer. I'm seriously going to give it away because i'm embaresed to try and trade it in. If somebody tried to steal it i'd brobably beat the crap out of them for fun then let them take it. CHeaply made with cheap components and the switches are a pain. I cant believe I traded in a perfectly good Fender amp for it.

This is a Japanese made Jag-Stang. Think it was made in 97. Basswood body, single coil (SRV strat) in neck position humbucker (Dimarzio H-3) in the bridge. Jaguar style body with Mustang style 3 way pickup selectors. Standard strat strap buttons and tuners. Oversized headstock with 'Designed by Kurt Cobain' on back. Mine is fiesta red but is also available in sonic blue.

I play pretty much 60s pschedelic rock (Jimi Hendrix & Led Zeppelin) to 90s grunge (Nirvana & Silverchair) and does well. I usually use the humbucker with the single coil off. Humbuckers average but I'm going to get a Seymour Duncan JB. By the way my setup is a Fender Princeton 112+(65 watts) through a DOD Ice Box Stereo Chorus-Boss DS2-Electro Harmonix Big Muff-Morley wah. Wide variety of pickup combinations. Very bright and midrangey.

When I received this guitar (through Musicians Friend) it had already been adjusted *perfectly*. Awesome. Only thing the tone and volume knobs can change during songs if your not careful.

I'd gig with this only if you get strap locks since these buttons are cheap. Paint looks thin but I'd never drop this so everything is as good as new.

I think this has a 2 year warranty. Never dealt with Fender but Musician's Friend is good.

I've been playing for 2 years and have 6 guitars. This one is my favorite with my Epiphone SG. Way better than my crappy Ibanez RG40. I also have a Harmony beginner's guitar and an Alvarez classical acoustic and a Carlo Rebbeli regular acoustic. I'd definately get another Jag-Stang if it were stolen. If I saw one in sonic blue I'd probably get it too.
P.S. Hurry up and find one as they are discontinued.

I think this guitar is a 22 fret '96 Japenese made. The main feature is the Fender Vibrato which is an awesome little piece. I love the neck on this guitar. It is so thin and perfect for solos. It has mainly the same features as a Mustang.

The sound is pretty good, of course I am comparing to my first guitar a Fender Squier Strat, but I like it has many different settings. I am playing it through a cheap Peavey Bandit(one 12). It is not a noisy guitar, it's pretty quiet compared to my old one. The pickups that came with it are kinda crappy, it is a look alike of a Strat pickup and a cheap humbucker, but if you adjust them just right it sounds good. Oh yeah I had to raise the bridge a whole lot because the strings were rattling an awful lot.

The guitar setup from the factory sucked! I had to fiddle with it a couple of hours to get it right. Like I said above the bridge was setup bad, but it comes with allen wrenches to set it up right. Other than that the guitar was in great shape.

I haven't had any problems with it scratching or falling of the strap.

In all I would say I love this guitar, but I was a huge Nirvana fan so I would do anything to get that sound, and it does a good job of getting it. I would reccamend buying some better pickups for it though.

22 frets, basswood body (I think), small scale rosewood fretboard, fender dynamic vibrato, neck humbucker and bridge single coil with mustang style switches, single tone and volume, disgustingly gaudy bright red finish.

I bought this guitar cuz I liked the small neck (like a duosonic or a mustang) plus someone told me it had good feedback)... then i found out kurt cobain made it (was i the only one who didn't know?) and i didn't want to touch it. I play lots of rock and roll music though, like the Smiths and other hard rock like Sunny Day Real Estate and Unowund and also I play everything else like jazz and classical so i gotta say that eventually i figured out that this guitar doesn't sound half bad, even if people keep telling me to play the chords to smells like etc... I modified the vibrato so it would stay in tune and have more sustain by fitting wooden dowels over the screws that go into the body. usually, they just rest on the screw tip inside that little hole, so the strings are only connecting to the body where it touches, but if you put wood all around the