Stagg Jaguar/Jazzmaster Copy

Nice body and finish. Pickups are lousy and noisy. Switches (5 way) and tuners are cheap and need to be replaced. The neck is warped and the frets need work!

The guitar sounds pretty bad and can't stay in tune to save it's life. Real thin and plucky....not in a good way.

I had to adjust the crooked pickups. The setup was the worst I have ever seem on a guitar. The action was set so high you could drive a MAC truck under it. When the action was lowered it hit about 10 frets.

The tuners crapped out after 3 months. One of the pickups stopped working because the wire came undone. I found this out of course after I took it apart. No excuses for such garbage!

I would never buy another Stagg again. I real POS! I like project guitars but you can't polish a turd. I saved the body and the pickguard. Maybe one day I can use those for a complete rebuild.

This guitar is really amazing looking. One of the coolest things is the tortoise pickguard. It has 3 good-sounding single-coils.
The guitar is really well build, made of good wood and especially the tuners are amazing. For the money this is far more than you could ever think of. It has a tremolo, too.

It sounds great. I play Sonic-Youthesque music with it and it's an amazing guitar. I have a Ibanez Artcore Semi Acoustic and a Godin guitar, too and I think this is maybe even my favourite guitar of those three. It sounds kool-o-matic.

Like i said, it feautures a tremolo, really cool tuners and single coils with high output. It is put together well. Good Work.

Seems to be built like a rock. I do gig with it and never had problems.

Don't know.

It's is probably my favourite guitar although it is cheaper than the other ones i used. You can't compare it with other rather cheap guitars, this one is far far better than you would think. I definitly recommend it.

Metallic Black(beautiful!), Jaguar/Jazzmaster shape, i think it's floyd-rose style tremolo, Non locking tuners(bit naff), Quite a chunky neck, Came with a whammy-bar and a free lead.
2006, i think. 24 frets, Solid-top....5 way selector switch, one volume, one tone. Pickup selection = bridge, bridge/middle, middle, neck/middle and neck. I'm not sure which make the pickups are, cheap ones. Passive electronics, i imagine. Body is Alder with a maple/rosewood neck(i think).

Well, i play anything from heavy-rock to pop rock. The pickups are actually fantastic for the price! They're a very low output though, i am going to change them for Seymour Duncans, as i have done with my other guitars. The sound can go from really thick and grungey, to thin and nasal, aka, Placebo. You can get loads of sounds out of this guitar..There's nothing i don't honestly like about it :-). I'm changing the pickups for my own tastes and versatility. I use a Boss GT8 through my Ashdown stack, all tube, i might add. Awesome sound! A damn bargain for ??80!!!

The guitar arrived set up almost perfectly. The action is a tad too high..the set-up is pretty much spot on from the factory. I am fussy. The guitar is excellent! I've tried all types of guitars, i'm an SG fan. I actually own two..but, i wanted a Jaguar type guitar, without forking out the cash. After reading up on it, i decided to buy one. This should be worth MUCH more than i bought it for! It easily rivals the high-end guitars. The neck is gorgeous..i've fallen in love with it. Quite chunky though, so beware if you have small hands :-P. The finish is beautiful too! No flaws at all...Metallic black..The pickguard is a marble-effect 2-ply tortoise shell type pickguard..lol. If you hold the guitar to the light, you can actually see the sparkle :-D. Great stuff. Oh, it's very light too. Almost as light as my Epiphone SG, which i've modded EVERYTHING on it.

I believe it would withstand live playing..Like most people, i'd take a back-up, just incase of that dreaded string snapping e.t.c..you never know. The hardware is pretty good, better than what you pay for it! The tuners will probably need replacing, for me, they're a little "tight"...and seem to drop a fair bit. But for ??80, what do you expect? They're inexpensive, and easy to find. The finish seems nice and thick, and beautiful to look at :-). I will be getting strap-locks for this, because of the way the strap-buttons are placed on the guitar. I've never thought of doing this before, but, i think i'll have to. Also, an inexpensive thing :-). I can depend on it! It's built like a rock, but it's also quite light :-). The body and neck seem VERY durable, great stuff.

Hopefully i'll never have to. I'm not even sure whether Stagg have a customer support? I know there's another review below me that says the same thing. I tried finding them on thier website, but, nowhere to be seen. Maybe i didn't look hard enough...The only thing i will need help with, is the wiring diagrams for this beast. Changing pickups n'all, i'll need a copy. Apart from that, you probably won't need to use them :-)

I've been playing for 5 years..that may not sound like much to you, but i play ALL the time. It's all that i do. I know my gear, and i know a bargain when i see it :-). I own two SG's, with Seymour Duncan pickups, JB/Jazz in both. Boss GT8, Ashdown fallen angel head(all tube) and 4x12 cab. I'd absolutely buy it again if it was lost or stolen! This is one of those guitars that goes unnoticed because it doesn't have a "designer" label on the headstock, it's a brilliant guitar. I love everything about it. I don't love, so much, the tuners and the pickups. But, that's just my taste and preference! It's brilliant value for money..incredible, infact. lol..i still can't believe what a bargain i found. I've played many guitars, Gibson, Fender, Squier, Epiphone, Dean, Jackson..e.t.c..I chose this one because i prefer the retro shapes, that was my first hook. I read loads of reviews, and decided to take a gamble on that small amount of cash. This guitar rivals some of the more high-end guitars, i guarantee that. If you changed pickups and all the other hardware, if you wanted to, it'd be better than all the rest. It has everything i need, and more :-). Seriously, give it a chance..if your after a Jaguar/Jazzmaster without paying like ??500, try this! It's totally worth it!!!

I would have given this guitar a 6 for features, as it is a thoroughly average Strat copy, except the finish (tobacco sunburst) is very nice, and the Jag/Jazzmaster body shape and big tortie pickguard raise its coolness factor by an order of magnitude.

There's the usual 3 single-coils and 5-way switch, with a sweet out-of-phase Strat sound in the 2nd position. The 5-way switch is mounted fore instead of aft as on most Strat copies, which is a welcome change for me, as I tend to whack the switch on most Strats while strumming.

Six-saddle fully-adjustable string-through-body bridge with tremolo, typical vintage-style chrome tuners with enclosed gears. Surprisingly, this thing tunes up quick and stays in tune like a rock, although I haven't whaled on the whammy bar.

It sounds pretty much like a Strat! Plucky, thin, bright tone in the bridge position, meaty but chiming in the middle, and classic, distinctive, squonky Stratness between. The neck pickup sounds muddy to me, but that's always the case with Strats and their clones, especially since I play mostly cleanish. Sounds perfect through my Epiphone Valve Junior, a little 5-watt class A tube amp. I can't speak for how it would sound in a solid state setup-- probably thin and cheesy. This is a guitar made for low-wattage triode tube amps.

I play fingerstyle a la Merle Travis, surf guitar, Byrds-like arpeggios, and a little bit of skritchy funk rhythm. I don't play anything resembling metal and can't say how this guitar would work for that. For what I do, it's nice.

Mine was set up perfect from the shop-- no buzz, plenty sustain, neck just right. The maple neck has a beautiful burl figure brought out by a glossy, honey-colored lacquer. The rosewood fretboard is fit to the neck flawlessly, and the high, round frets are finished nicely, and there's a rosewood strip running down the back of the neck. I can't find so much as a burr or a loose pot on this thing. The fit and finish are far beyond what I have a right to expect from a sub-$200 guitar, and I've owned them all. I wish it came with better strings, but that's how it goes.

I wouldn't take any guitar on a gig without a backup! But this is a solid guitar. So far, it's laughed at the crazy Wyoming weather, staying in tune between playings all through winter and a rainy spring. Not a buzz or crackle in the whole thing, despite what must be inexpensive components. I expect this guitar to hold up well.

At this price, I have zero expectations of customer support. And I've had zero need of it!

I've been playing guitar casually for almost 30 years, about 7 of those rather intensely. I've owned more guitars and amps than I can shake a stick at, including a Squier Strat and a good old Fender Bullet, and I've been on speaking terms with a 70s Tele. This little el cheapo beats all 3. If I lost it, I would miss it and might get another, although knowing me, I'd gamble the 200 bones on another adventure in bargain lutherie. And I'd probably be disappointed after my experience with this guitar.

Normally, I wouldn't have looked twice at an off-brand Strat clone, but the look caught my eye, and then the fit and finish sealed the deal. The sound and playability were pleasant surprises. If you like the look of the wonkier vintage Fenders, and you need a Strat sound without spending Strat bucks, and you don't mind looking spiffy, then this guitar could not possibly give you cause for complaint. One clue that I had made the right choice: The store clerk practically cried to see it go. Turns out this bargain basement beater was his favorite thing to play in the whole store.

To below, jazzmasters dont use humbuckers , just big single coils more like a p90

I think it was made in 2002 but I can't be sure.
21 Frets.
Solid Top.
Volume, Tone and 5 Way selector knobs/switches.
3 Single coil pickups.
Jazzmaster/Strat Shape.
Strat Bridge with Trem Arm.
Full Scale neck which is quite fat.

Well I play sort of Sonic Youthish sort of music, It does this reasonably well. I changed the weak bridge pickup to a humbucker, which made it sound sweeter. I run it through a MG100DFX with a few other pedals as well as the on boars effects. My first impression was the pickups being very weak with the distortion on. So a fairly weak sound that I had to change to make my style of music playable. I actually quite like the neck pickup, it very bassssy.

The guitar I bought was second hand so i dont know weather it was set up by the previous owner or by the factory. Either way it has good action. The pickups were a little bit low, again this could have been done by the previous owner. The finish i quite nice and is red, the pickguard though is fairly ugly. The shape is obviously totally killer! All in all fairly good.

if this guitar is modified to suit your taste yes it is very nice for playing live with, especially with it being cheap and looking fairly cool, it doesn't matter too much if you decide to smash it over your head! The bridge is fairly sturdy and will probably last. I have used the whammy bar exsesivly and it still works fine. i have dropped it loads of times as well and it has always recovered! I have even smashed it and put it back together! The wood it strong and is very relaible. I would defiantly play it at a gig, The stap buttons are solid!

i bought it off ebay.....

I have been playing the guitar for 5 years now, this guitar is a valuble part of my collection and is very sturdy and well worth the money! If this guitar was bought for me when i first started, I would have absolutly loved it. Great for beginers and intermidiates.

Good Stuff!

Made somewhere in asia, 3-Tone sunburst finish, ugly tortoise pickguard, 21 frets, 5- way selector, one volume, one tone knob, 3 singlecoils, tremolo, bad working cluson copies; That's it!

This is my third guitar. I only use this guitar for homerecordings in my cubase VST. I play it through a nobels soundstudio 1 directly in my recordingcard. When I was looking for a cheap strat-style guitar I found this thing on Ebay for about 120 Euros (new). Strats look a bit boring to me, so I was glad to find a Jazzmaster-style guitar including all the features normally found on a strat-copy.

The Sound is ok for me, but the singlecoils seem to be very cheap. So I guess if I played it loud it might sound a little thin and i'm sure there will be feedback problems. For studio or recording use it does a great job.

Don't expect a rock guitar! The singlecoils sound weak when played with distortion. I replaced the bridge PU and put a chrome covered Humbucker in it, now it works.

Played clean it offers all the sounds expected from a 3 singlecoil guitar incl. out-of-phase sounds in the middle positions. Great for funky riffs!

Cheap guitars setups is always terrible. So it was on this! But it was no problem to set it up well.

Neck and body seem to offer a pretty good basis for a nice guitar. The reason why this is a cheap guitar is first of all the crappy tuners and then the PUs. If you replace these parts you will have a real good guitar.

Body finish is ok, the sunburst looks well done, but the "tortoise" pickguard is just a fake. It's a normal white one with a tortoise print on it!

Since I don't play it live the reliability is ok for me.

I do all the setup, repairs etc. myself.

Don't get me wrong: this thing is not too bad! This is a cheap guitar, but it offers a pretty good basis to build a guitar that really works! Replace the tuners and eventually the Pickups and it will be great! If you consider this guitar to be your only one you have to do it immediately, if you use this just as a second or third fun guitar just enjoy it!

2002 I do believe, and it is a Korean I think

21 fret

Red finish, with matching head.... ROCKS

the neck is a bit fatter than my Tele's... making one of our best loved songs difficult to play... but who cares!

Cheap single coil pick-ups

The tuners... are good in my opinion... they seem to stay in tune nicely, but this could change after time...

Got a nice stagg gig bag with mine aswell

OK... well, when I hit the distortion I had my Tele on... FEED BACK ARGH!!!! so, that made me cringe... but it was a very much metally kinda sound... and we do punk rock/grunge... so When I put the pedal back to the bands original settings... heavy bass, less treble... NO PROBLEMO.... so this guitar suits grunge... plus the small ammount of feed back it gives off is perfect for the grungey gigs we do! I love this guitar, and it's been used in the studio recordings.... which the feed back brought great character to!

I use a Marshall GV-2 Guv'nor distortion pedal and a AXL JF-2 Flanger pedal. These both work fine with the Jag

Noisy ... yes... but thats great for us!

the sound is very bright, but if you turn up the bass enough on heavy distortion is can become v.full

I dislike the incesent feed back... some times... it becomes too much!

The turning pegs are a little loose, and the PU's are a little weak...
Appart from that, no complaints

Easily with stand live playing, as I got insanein the studio... just me i guess, so to any normal person easy! Just gotta hope it withstands one of ours!

The finish is great... Red with gold guard plate.

The paint does not seem thin, and rocks, it didn't scratch of with it's encounter with the wall.

the strap buttons are very solid, though a little thin

I'd gig with it, but not with out my 2 back ups

Well, it suits are Nirvana/Datsuns sound nicely, as we aren't perfectionists!

I love the look and the sound bar some of the feed back!

In comparison to the tele... it sounds better, but the pick ups are weak, so it can take as much over drive

I wish it had fender, or even squire pick ups!

This is just a player review, I don't owe the guitar, I gave it a test drive at my local guitar shop.
It is 2002 made in Korea I guess it is well made and the arm is a three piece and feels like my MIJ Fender Jazzmaster which is very good. The body is Alder which is has the right weight and looks really good. The Harware however is not good, the tuning machanisms, Kluson copy's are really bad, this guitar won't keep it's tune. If you wan't to use this Axe for playing, you defenitelly will need to replace them. The pick ups are like a Strat, so three single coil PU's with the classic 5 way switch, it produces thin strat like sounds, but again the PU's sound cheap. the bridge looks o.k. for a strat style tremolo unit, but I wouldn't really twang it.

It sounds thin, niece for small practice amps, but not on high volumes. for others it sound just like any cheap Stratocaster copy, so it would greatly benifit from replacement pick-ups.

The finish was great for a guitar of this price. It looks very clean with a pearloid pick guard, beautifull red metallic finish with matching headstock. The quality of wood used is really good and it's got the right feel. The action looks like the set up on any $ 200 cheap guitar, so it will defenitely plays better after a re-set up.
I wish they would of chosen better quality of harware on these babies.

In it's current condition I wouldn't use to play live, the crappy hardware is a real downside for these occasions. But fitted with the propper hardware, I would use it live without hesitation!! It looks so cool!!!

I've been playing music for nearly 13 years 10 years on guitar and three years on Bass,I currently owe a MIJ Fender Jazzmaster, a Bellwood modified SG, a Ibanez 440 STT and some other guitars. so I gave this one a critcal examination.
I think it's a good guitar for beginners, -it's got cool features and a fantastic look and plays as well as my Jazzmaster. Although the hardware is it's biggest downside, especially the tuners.
Anyway, for nearly 225 dollars or Euro's I would like better hardware! If this guitar were cheaper I would buy it and replace all the hardware and defenitelly use it as a backup for my Jazzmaster since it plays just as good. If I can get this baby for let's say 150 Euro's or dollars I would most certainly buy it imediatelly without hesitation!! So I hope I can get this Axe someday as a 2ndhand guitar and start modifiyng it with the hardware it deserves!

This guitar was probably made somewhere in Asia.
Body shapge: Jaguar/Jazzmaster (I love this shape!)
Pickups: 3x Single Coil (probably some cheap no-name)
Controls: 1x Volume + 1x Tone (Strat-style)
PU Selector: 5-way
Body: Solid Alder Wood
Neck: Hard Maple / 648mm - Fingerboard: Rosewood with 21 frets Bridge: Classic Tremolo (Strat)
Machine heads: Vintage chrome (Kluson clone)
Colour: Sunburst w/ a beautiful red tortoise pickguard

A cable and the whammy-bar was included in the package.

It has the sound diversity of a strat and it sound cristal-clear (unplugged and in the clean channel of my Hughes&Kettner TUBE100 top + Laney 4x12).

I'm very into Pink Floyd-ish clean sounds (+ EHX Stereo Polychorus), but I also use to play some rock and grunge.

In the middle-position, I can achieve pretty much gain.
The PUs are simple single coils. So don't expect too much. But the hum is equal to the PUs of my Squire Strat.

The set-up is very good.
The strings are pretty low to the fingerboard, and so it's easy to play for me.

The sunburst-finish looks very nice and well produced. And it also looks much more expensive than the guitar actually was.

The guitar is also very good shielded. No hum, no hiss.
When I bought my Squire, I first had to shield it. I can leave this one as it is.

I would gig with the stagg, even without a back-up.
It seems to be very reliable.

But I would buy some security locks, because they are the best solution to keep the strap at the buttons.

I really don't trust standard-strap buttons while playing live.

Never dealt with them.

I play since 1993, and this is my third "still working" guitar.
I have 5 at all, but two of them are broken and need to be fixed.
But I don't want to spend money on them.

My gear:
guitars
IBANEZ GAX 70
Epiphone Coronet
Stagg M-350 Jazzmaster copy

Amps:
Hughes & Kettner TUBE 100 Top + Laney 4X12 (some sort of vintage speakers inside)
Fender Princeton 60

Pedals:
EHX PolyChorus

If it was stolen, I would buy it again. It looks so beatiful, and it sounds amazing for the money.