Key Features
- American Vintage pickups deliver crisp, clean, and clear tone
- Separate lead and rhythm circuits for a huge variety in sound
- Easy to hold ''C'' shape pau ferro neck
- Period correct '60s bridge
Fender Classic '60s Jaguar Lacquer PF, Lake Placid Blue Overview
Used by Thurston Moore, Graham Coxan, and PJ Harvey amongst countless others, the Jaguar took a moment to establish itself, but it is an icon all the same. Cementing its popularity throughout the 1990's alternative music scene.
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View Full DescriptionVersatile and Well Featured
The Jaguar is a special instrument. One that has so many features that it really set itself apart from anything else on offer. With a floating tremolo system, two separate tone circuits, and high pass filter the Fender Jaguar is a very versatile unit, once understood.
The Tone Circuit
With the most complex wiring of any Fender instrument, the Jaguar featured two separate tone circuits. It had a single slide switch on the top horn that dictates which circuit is engaged. With the switch up, you engage the tone and volume wheels. With that top switch down, you engage the ‘lead’ circuit which is a little more complex featuring 3 separate switches. .
The first two are on and off switches for the pickups and the third switch controls a high pass filter, taking away the lower frequencies giving the jaguar a brighter treble bite. With all this, there is also a master tone and volume control for further tone sculpting making the Jaguar capable of incredible sonic variation.
The Floating Tremolo
The tremolo is deceptively simple. The strings are strung through a steel plate with the tremolo arm and spring attached to it. Moving the tremolo arm directly moves the plate giving a very sensitive and distinctive response.
A Plethora of Sounds
The Jaguar is capable of taking you from shimmering and jangly cleans, reminiscent of the Beach Boys and Elvis Costello to crazy fuzzed out tones of Nirvana and Fu Manchu. It had adopters from all genres and since its reissues, has enjoyed yet another surge in popularity, namely because of how versatile it is.
Classic Features
A nitro lacquer over an ash body – it looks and feels every bit classic. Coming out of Mexico, this is the first guitar from there using a nitrocellulose finish, a vintage touch normally only reserved for the American Vintage and Custom Shop models. It was something that has been requested for so many years and Fender have actually done something about it.
Classic Series
The classic series looks at what made guitars of certain decades great and adds a few modern turns to a classic formula. This reissue is being produced in Mexico and is certainly the best series of instruments to come out of the Mexican factory.
Specifications
Body
- Series: Classic
- Body Material: Alder
- Body Finish: Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Body Colour: Lake Placid Bluie
Neck
- Neck Material: Maple
- Neck Shape: ‘’C’’ Shape
- Neck Finish: Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Scale Length: 24” (610 mm)
- Fingerboard Radius: 7.25" (184.1 mm)
- Fingerboard: Pau Ferro
- Number of Frets: 22
- Fret Size: Vintage Style
- Nut: Synthetic Bone
- Nut Width: 1.650" (42 mm)
- Position Inlays: White Dots
Hardware & Electronics
- Bridge Pickup: American Vintage '65 Single-Coil Jaguar®
- Neck Pickup: American Vintage '65 Single-Coil Jaguar®
- Controls: Lead Circuit Controls: 3 slide switches Rhythm Circuit Control: 2 Thumb Wheels, 1 Slide Switch, Master Tone, Master Volume
- Pickup Switching: Neck Pickup On/Off Slide Switch, Bridge Pickup On/Off Slide Switch, Normal/Low Cut Slide Switch
- Bridge: 6-Saddle Vintage-Style Adjustable with “Floating” Tremolo Tailpiece
- Tuning Machines: Vintage-Style
- Control knobs: Black Plastic
- Strings: 0.10 – 0.46
- Pickguard: 3-Ply Black/White/Black
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