Squier Vintage Modified Jaguar HH Electric Guitar  

The Squire Jaguar Modified is so comfortabel, once I pick it up I can't put it down. My practice time has more than doubled for the comfort factor alone. I love the "wide" neck, (not too wide). The fret board is so smooth and fast. I've played it through my Orange solid state, and my Vox tube amps, so beautiful! The sound range is increadible. I'm so glad I stumbled on to this guitar.

The quality is surprising! No flaws. Just beautiful. Solid. Those folks in Indonesia built this guitar right.

None of my musician friends believe me when I tell them the price for this. It's just that good in everyway.

This has become my favoritve giutar. Everyday I can't wait to play it.

I am constantly amazed by the quality of these Squires. This is my second in as many years. After a few strike-outs looking for the right Gibson, I determined this low-budgeteer might work for my short scale/humbucker needs. And I was right. This guitar, like my last Modded Tele, is impeccably finished and has a scorching sound. The guitar is solid, and after minimal set-up, is ready to blaze away! Not a buttery Les Paul feel and the sound is sort of one-dimensional--L0UD!-- For the price paid, quite a nice guitar. The only complaint I might have is the bridge-- Weird stamped steel thing that is just sort of hanging there by wood screws, but worse, is that setting intonation(which it needed) is a really ponderous affair. I would have even preferred if they did a Gibson wrap-around to this one, but oh well . . . After checking out the entire squire line, I think they are a really hip company. The Avril Lavign/Sum41 Teles, the hotrodded Jags and Jazz's, etc.  For new guitarists and someone just needing a workhorse like me, they have something for you.

Dude...this guitar is magic

I played it...and was instantly hooked by the vintage neck and shorter scale...played like a dream....frets all dressed nice...perfect setup and superb neck.

Did a check on internet for opinions and found tons of folks dissing this guitar....waited a few days..she kept haunting me...and so I went and bought it...not like it was the end of the earth.

Played for the entire weekend...guitar nervana....so have to post a review and discuss this amazing deal from squier and dispel some of the nonsense critics have posted. I own 15 guitars (right now)...play alot and like to modify and hotrod my rigs (if they are not collectable that is!!!)....hense I have an affection for squiers...not afraid to dink around with it.

First...this is not a jaguar......I love the vintage jag's and if I were to get one now (oh if I only had all the guitars I have ever owned...sigh)....I would never modify it...that would be a sin....I get tradition, and the funky jag setup was super cool in its own funky way...but dude...the tremelo/bridge setup on those vintage jags was bunk...always drifting out of setup...buzzing and want to tune your guitar....hammer the wammy...and uh, time to tune bro........but nevermind...the vintage jags are the bomb.

This guitar has the cool vibe of the jag, the shorter scale and a nice retro, pre aged varnish....it channels all the coolness of the 60's jag, with modern setup.

Pickups......squier upgraded this guitar to S-dunkens (humbuckers)....and let me tell you, they are excellent, no need to change pickups like can be the case on many squiers....leave them alone baby, they are top notch......would I tarnish a vintage jag to put in humbuckers...hell no.....but squier did it for you with no karma hit

The bridge......is excellent...lots of folks saying it is like a danalectro and junk....well, it is sorta like a danalectro..but only the nicer high end ones that have intonation adjustment and not the wooden bridge type...and the squier is very beefy, no bending like the thin dano version...and in the end it allows the bridge to tork down onto the guitar body, like a gibson tunomantic does.....very good for tone....and this guitar has tone, tone , tone.....is the intonation setup a pain..yes...but you can shove the string over with a small screw driver and then slide string saddle around to intonate.....tighten up and your done.....I dont know about you...but I do not adjust my intonation all that often...no big deal.

The guitar has amazing tone and is very resonant, even with not hooked up to an amp...why.....I think it is because the design uses a big chunk of wood and they routed the body for the original jag setup...meaning there is a cavety above the strings for the toggle switch, which is the size for the mutli switch of the original jag...and a cavety bellow the strings for the additional switches a vintage jag has......cut outs for both pickups and the tone pot section....end result is a nice chamber that adds to the sound of the guitar in a positive way.

Ok...now under the hood.....quality stuff, forget the typical cheap electronics found on some squiers.......the pickups are great as I mentioned.....and they are suprise, suprise, 4 wire untis (more on that later)...with the middle wire fused near the tone pots to give a normal humbucker setup........the concentric tone pots are cool and look to be well done units...no plastic chip board junk........now the selector switch was a bit crackley for me..and others have noticed this too...but a shot of electrical component cleaner and throw switch back and forth a bunch...and no problem to date.

Get this...the body is actually shielded with shielding paint......that is cool...additional quality touch and most would never notice....hint of the effort to make this a dam good guitar by the manufacture (indonesia by the way and not china)

Guitar stock is superb....but get this............it can be moded in a very cool way with little to no effort. Because the pickups are 4 wire and the leads are easy to get at for the middle wire (wire joining the two single coils in the humbucker)...it is siting accessable next to each tone/volume pot, just waiting to be modified baby!!!.......you can simply tap into this...and run it through a simple on/off switch to ground (the wire going into the guitar body to ground to the shielded paint works fine)...and use the pre-routed cavety bellow the strings.....and add two switches for each pickup and wala...you have single coil taps on both pickups............works great....the dunkens are hot pickups...so when you tap out one coil and make it a single coil...it still sounds great and when you hit the switch you have instant stratocaster sounds on neck and tele sounds on bridge...and if you mix both...you have have a blended humbucker and single coil sound...which is turning out to be my fav right now.

this is a 20 minutue mod and costs less than $10.....all the wiring is there already and exposed (no need to perform surgery on the humbucker to get at the coil tap)...and the body routing is already there under the pick gaurd...all you need is two switches and a bit of additional wire.....easy.

Just dont make the mistake I did and use toggle switches...I kept hitting my hand on them when playing....had to go back and use low profile simple rocker switch and now works like a charm.

You would never be allowed by the quitar Gods to screw around like this with a vintage jag .no worries.

The guitar has all the vibe of the vintage Jaguar...without the high maintenance pain in the butt bridge and wammy set up and uses a simple but effective bridge, resonant and easy to mod.....what else do we want folks...........go get one, they rock

Bryan

no need to dress the frets, no sharp frets....nicely done

are you kidding.....it outshines my strat and cost what the pickups cost for that fender

my go-to guitar now (and I own 15....dig guitars bro )

This guitar is AMAZING!!! And I DESPISED Squier guitars!!! I LOVE Fender, but the Squier neck was a HUGE turn off.... until I grabbed this Jaguar! I IMMEDIATELY fell in love. Being a Cobain fan it was the right style guitar for me! The dual humbuckers are fantastic, although i do not like the Zebra designs at all. I'd rather have creme colored pickups, but that's something i can change later. The one problem I have is the toggle switch on the upper horn. It gets in the way when I'm playing and causes me to switch to the other pickup selections. BUT, i figured i'll just buy some Gaffers Tape and cover it up. I don't care what the others think of the bridge, but it's really not all that bad! I hate tremelo, so it's perfect for those who don't get TOO fancy with that stuff. Not the most visually appealing bridge, but it's very simplistic! The neck is LOVELY! It has a magnificent thin-ness to it, so it offers really good playability PLUS it has great action! The Kluson-Style tuners are great too, really make string changes MUCH easier!

The ONLY problems I currently have with this guitar is the strings have a LITTLE buzz, but it's something that I can deal with. AND the tuning of the guitar can get off sometimes, which is annoying, but you gotta realize that EVERY guitar has it's flaws AND it's not a FENDER JAGUAR, so cut it some slack. Other than that, the quality is ABSOLUTELY STELLAR!!!

I got this guitar for a great price! Compared to the Fender Jaguars. I own a Fender Jag-Stang as well, and I will have to say that this Jaguar is JUST about as good as it. I love both guitars very much and recommend this guitar to ANYBODY who is considering it. I was told to get the Squier Jazzmaster instead, but I can't stand P-90's and the blonde color. Sorry, Fender/Squier but the 3-Tone Sunburst is my favorite. Anyways, that raps up my review. I hope it helps.

I don't need to say anything hear, just read everything above.

First off I have to say this has quickly become my favorite guitar.  My other guitars being an American Tele and a MIM Tele (and previously a MIM Strat, Thinline Tele, etc..)  The neck on this thing is very sweet, vintage frets and capable of really low action (though there will be some fret buzz on the 6th and 5th strings, but enough I can live).

I will say that I've since changed out the bridge and the pickups.  The bridge in truth plays decently but made the guitar sound a bit dull imo, I swapped in a bridge that makes full contact with the body and the guitar sprung to life much more than I expected.  People could hardly believe it was the same guitar, even before swapping out the pickups.  The pickups are of good quality btw, but I'm more into the single coil sound.

With the short scale neck and lightweight body this has become my favorite guitar to jam on while watching TV and such, and with the mods is now my favorite recording guitar as well.  As far as performing it's amazingly easy to play on this thing, and it looks pretty cool as well.

- Sunbelt Ryders

If they shipped this thing with single coil pickups and a better bridge it would be a 10.  The quality of the wiring and pots underneath the pickguard were surprisingly impressive.  Very tidy wiring job and full sized pots.  I did have to do a small repair to the toggle switch, which only involved dabbing on a small amount of solder and took a total of 30 seconds.

Awesome value for the money, Fender has been doing some impressive things with the Squier line imports recently.

Again, with the mods I now feel this is a 10.  But as it stands on the shelf I have to say they could've gone with a much better bridge, and a string thru design might've been interesting.