Fender Jag-Stang

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