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  • 7. November 2009: That’s why I love the Jazzmaster

    Just have a look at this live-performance of D.A.D at Roskilde and listen to the distinctive JM sound Sleeping my day away @ Roskilde :-)

  • 30. March 2009: Jazzmaster in German Music Mag “Visions”

    The printed April issue of German Musicmag “Visions” features a supplement for guitarists – and among them Gibsons and mainstream-Fenders there’s a page for the Jazzmaster, the J.Mascis signature, to be precise.

  • 26. February 2009: Pitchfork.tv: In the studio with Dinosaur JR

    Hang around with J. and the gang and bits of the new record: pitchfork.tv

  • 25. July 2008: Fender celebrates 50 years of Jazzmaster

    Recently a special webpage has been launched and on the 12th September 2008 a special concert will be held in New York’s Knitting Factory, with Tom Verlaine, Nels Cline, Thurston Moore, J. Mascis and special guests!

  • 26. June 2008: Soundsamples bug

    There seems to be a problem with the Soundsamples of vintage and reissue Jaguar and Jazzmasters Files. Under certain browser/system circumstances no sound will be played and only “buffering” is displayed in the flash-player. For those with these problems I have added the url to the sound-files below each player. Cudos to “Elm” and thanks for the report.

  • 21. June 2008: New Gallery added

    I couldn’t resist and recently got me this beauty. I always lusted after a Candy Apple Red, matching headstock Jaguar – preferably a pre-CBS one, hahah. Well, close enough for Rock’n'Roll. :-)

  • 30. May 2008: Revised “Taming The Stringbuzz”

    Upon the author’s request I updated the Taming The Stringbuzz article with his new insights :-)

  • Archives

    Ye olde stuff

The Jaguar

Catalogue Detail 1965Trivia and info on the chrome-covered shortscale with the look you either love or hate.

 

Vintage Marketing

Introducing the Jaguar: quoted from Fender’s product catalogue 1962/63

Fender Product Catalogue 1962“FENDER JAGUAR – The Jaguar, Fender’s newest addition to their line of Fine Electric Instruments, presents a new and exciting concept in the field of solid-body guitars. The neck of the Jaguar is a short 24″ scale containing 22 frets, and may be ordered with a size narrower or one of two sizes wider than standard neck width at the nut. A new “Fender First” in the Jaguar is the Fender Mute. This movable string mute is attached to the bridge and may be activated or disengaged by a light touch of the finger. With the Fender Mute it is no longer necessary to remove the bridge cover and dampen the strings with the hand to shorten the sustaining period of the notes. Other features of the Jaguar are: newly designed wide-range pickups, on-off pickup switches with controls making possible six different tone selections plus standard tone and volume controls, rhythem circuit, Fender “Floating Tremolo”, “Off-set” waist design, and adjustable neck truss rod. The new Jaguar is unhesitatingly recommended to those desiring complete instrument versatility.”

 

Jaguar stuff

Original Fender Jaguar Owner’s Manual

Fender Product Catalogue Title 1963

Fender product catalogue title (1963/64)

"the choice of professional and student musicians everywhere"

1965 manual: PDF
Thanks to Craig G. Neeley, USA for sharing. Due to the storms of time and maybe with the help of some pet, the last page disappeared somewhere between 1965 and today.
Update: The PDF-file, as I found out only today (30.5.2007), has made its way into Fender’s own “Archived Owners Manual” page, as “Jaguar® 1965″. It is indeed the same PDF, same size, and the last page of the manual is missing, too. The internet is a small village. :-)

User Reviews

First hand reviews from users around the world can be found at “Harmony Central“, be it instruments, amplifiers or effects. Most of the reviews are biased of course, but it’s a great place to get some over-all impressions, and sometimes very funny to read. I have found two different categories with Jaguar reviews:

‘62 reissue (MIJ/CIJ/MIA) reviews
General Jaguar reviews

 

Jaguar pron

CIJ, 2002 Candy Apple Red, Matching Headstock - Photo: Tom Arnold



Have a l00k at the gallery…

 

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