fellow Jaguar and Jazzmaster connoisseurs…
You’ve come to my very own place of worship of Fender‘s Jazzmaster and Jaguar, the wonderful, but often underrated guitars, once designed to be the top-of-the-line models in Fender’s production line.
Here you will find plenty of information on these two guitar-models and their specialities, strengths, and problems. Information that I collected since 1999, when I got me my first Fender Jaguar, and was intrigued by the oddities of that guitar.
Hopefully you’ll find what you came here for. :-)
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March 11th 2012
I made a small change to the guestbook, now you can reply to a previous entry and that answer will be shown inside the original entry. Hope you like it.
March 9th 2012
I updated the “Exploring the Mastery Bridge” piece with my experiences after rehearsals and gigging with the bridge and added more pictures.
February 26th 2012
“From surfboards to shoegaze and beyond, it’s been a remarkable 50-year journey …”
- Fender celebrates the 50yr anniversary of the Jaguar with a thorough article and an Anniversary Model
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February 17th 2012
I needed a quick way to determine if my bridges allow for a good setup regarding the fretboard radius. Normally I would trust my eyes and fingers to determine if the distance of the strings from the fretboard is roughly the same arc as the fredboard’s radius… but wouldn’t it be nice to have a little helper to check the radius while fiddling with the saddle-height screws?
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February 17th 2012
With the support of Deimel Guitarworks, Berlin, Germany* I finally got hold of a Mastery Bridge, which arrived by mail today.
Since the packaging was as interesting as it was surprising, I thought I might as well start a little documentation of my usage of the bridge and if there is a difference compared to the stock-bridge (well, not really stock, I added a mustang-saddle years ago on the low e-string) on my trusty and very well set up workhorse Jazzmaster.
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January 5th 2012
2012 already kicks bottoms, like big times: Fender has introduced a Johnny Marr Signature Jaguar! OMG, I so gonna need to check this baby out, soon (sorry, I#m not at all objective here. This is too – one of my personal guitar heroes and my personal hero guitar together – aaargh :-)
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September 13th 2011
A wonderful 1964 3-Tone Sunburst Jaguar, owned and send in by Charles.
