Fender Jaguar HH Electric Guitar  

Lots of unnecessary switches.....but you can turn down the rhythm circuit and use it for a kill switch and its all good. The neck is finished nicely....too bad they are just black (fingerprints galore every time I pick it up). Buts thats no excuse to diss the guitar. Its actually one of the really good Fenders. No hum at all, of course, and a good range of tonal options.

Good quality. Japanese Fenders are still the bomb if you don't want to pay the extra $400-500 for an American one. The Dragster pickups are very good quality humbuckers....didn't know they'd be so good. Really like 'em. No need to replace them.

Worth every dime.  I played the Jaguar side by side with the other Jaguars in the store......clearly the best model unless you just have to have a tremolo. Honestly the vintage tremolos are so much poorer than a Floyd Rose that I can't imagine why you'd buy a vintage tremolo if you really use one often. I don't....so I'm thrilled with the fixed tailpiece. Wouldn't hesitate to pay this price.....its worth it if you want that shorter scale (which is most people's excuse for looking at a Jaguar).

I don't throw around "5's" easily. This really is a Jaguar that feels and sounds solid and tasty....just make sure you play one and dig the shorter 24" scale. I do cause I'm getting older....gout and arthritis makes the stretching more difficult than ever. Short scales can be played with ease but that missing inch and 3/4 does make the tension and sound less snappier.

This is one of the most versatile guitars I have ever played.

Once you master the daunting array switches and knobs and spinny wheels your tonal range will really open up. The neck pick-up has a real bassy funk sound, when you open it up it kind of feels like a big warm fat guy walked in and embraces eveyone in the room with a bear hug.

As for the bridge, when you slap on the bass cut, this thing will SCREAM, but it never really feels like it's going out of control, feels like you're on a roller coaster, it's a thrilling, crazy experience, but you know you're safe as long as you stay on the track.

I would also like to take a second to bring up the vintage fender tuners, I hear a lot of people giving them beef, I however think they are fantastic. They always hold the string tight and in-tune, and I love how they keep the exposed end of the string tucked away and from scratching the paint or snagging on the inside of my case. justsayin'.

"flawless", paint job is nice and even(I got the Gunmetal red version before they yanked it off the market, suckersss ), chrome is shiny, controls and doo-dads are solid, I've had the guitar for a year and half and it holds up just fine, build quality is great for what you pay.

For what you're paying, you're really getting a phenomenal instrument here, it's solid, looks great, sounds great, you can't go wrong here!

Overall this guitar is a winner, everywhere I go people want to play it, it's a heavy guitar and the chrome on dark just looks ferocious in person.

If you've still got doubts, go try it out at a local music shop, I guarantee you will fall in love with it.

*sidenote: I intalled a bigsby with the Vibramate mounting kit, best thing you can do to this thing, I'm always getting completments on it.

*sidenote2: one other thing I'd like to mention, the action is amazingly low, no fret buzz or anything, play this guitar, I think you will really be impressed,

peace, love, siranora!

The guitar is loaded, I have this guitar but when i ordered it, it had different color options that are no longer available. The guitar comes with good pickups, they are not hot pickups but their sound is crisp and clean. The switches may be confusing at first but it takes little time to get used to the setup. on the lower horn there are 3 switches the one closest to the end turns on and off the rythm (neck) pickup, the middle one controls the trebble (bridge) Pickup. And finally the last changes the pickups from Humbuckers to single coils! On the top horn is a switch that when in the on (up) position switches your controls to 2 wheels right below it. one volume and one tone. When this selection is on it turns on both pickups, you are not able to get the single coil tone in this mode. The best part of this is, when you need to make quick adjustments in your volume you can just switch between modes and have 2 different volume settings ready. Also if you turn down the upper one to no volume you just created a kill switch. I have played this guitar in many gigs through my local music store and every time I take it there I get many people coming up to me to talk about my guitar and how much they like it. I let a country/gospel guitarist borrow it and he could not put it down.

I have one problem with this guitar, the bridge is kind of cheap. Of all of the things on this guitar the one thing the cheeped out on was the bridge. You occasionally get a humming noise from the bridge as the string does not ride well in it. When I bought the guitar I had seen a few others who had this same problem. The tuning keys are great, although if you do not know how to string vintage style tuners I suggest that you go and find out how, otherwise you will go through many packs of strings trying to get it right. The Fretboard is perfect on my guitar, I cannot lower the action any more, the bridge wont go any lower! there is NO fret buzz, and the guitar is in tune all the way up the fret board.

Whatever you want to use this guitar for it will work great, I have played metal, jazz, blues, Latin, country, punk etc... the guitar literally does it all. You will need to order a specialty case, the guitar is about a inch longer than standard length.

Always been drawn to the Jag shape but never wanted to pay for super high end models or a vintage jag. When they first introduced this model i IMMEDIATELY started saving. The controls were a bit strange at first, but now they're second nature. Once i set it up and got everything just the way i liked it, it was a dream! I've had it for a while now and it has NEVER failed me. I've never had a problem. It has a great feel to it and a great look.

The only downside to this guitar is the pickups. If you're going to buy this guitar then save up for a set of pups. I went with covered seymours to keep the look. Sounds TONS better! The circuit for the neck pickup sounds so warm and thick.

It's a great guitar. It's my main squeeze. I'll keep it till i die!