Product: Fender Jaguar
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted 07/14/2006 at 10:06pm by Tor E. Steiro, Norway
Features : No Opinion
Sound : 10
I have a Fender Jaguar Sunbrust made in Japan.
I play, rock, punk and grunge style music.. and the Fender Jaguar is not the Grungey guitar, although Kurt Cobain used it in the Nevermind era. It's not possible to play grunge on it without pedals or sound effects.
I use a Digitech Grunge pedal and a Boss Overdrive/Distortion Pedal and the guitar sounds great with the grunge pedal on. I feel its kinda noisy, but that soothes me well, i love feedback sounds and just making noise.
I feel its not much variety on the sound, but i havent really experienced much with it.. i just found a sound i wanted then taped over the switches.. (like Cobain).. and the two switchers that you dont take up and down, but side ways, (the two ones that are not taped over) i cant seem to find out what they are for.. so if there are other Jaguar owners know this please e-mail me (
tor_e_steiro@hotmail.com)
Action, Fit, & Finish : 9
I basiclly doen't know this much about guitars.. so i just fixed what i could to make it more into the Kurt Cobain jaguar.
But to other Kurt Cobain fans who would like to get the jaguar to make it into a Cobain Jaguar. Dont buy the reissue from japan. the sunbrust finish is much more darker that the Cobain guitar. And on the other stuff you must open your wallets...
I've changed the tone and volume knobs, but Cobain had another volume knob. And change the Pickups, buy another strap lock and put on the right wing. and the neck is different than form the cobain guitar.
Reliability/Durability : 10
I've used it for live playing.. and it works great. and i treat it pretty roughly, throwing it around and using stuff like knives to scrape off the finish, and then stabbing the knife several times into the guitar. The finish holds up well, exept when i use a knife.. but thats obviouse... the strap locks are very solid indeed. And i can depend on it. but i always use my two guitars on shows. for different sounds and stuff like that (my thired are in the mail)
but i could and have used only the Jaguar on gigs, without a backup.
Customer Support : No Opinion
Overall Rating : 10
I've been playing for about four years now. I Have A Yamaha Strat model. and a Epiphone Les Paul Special is comming tomorrow or monday.
If it were stolen or lost, would you buy it again or get something else? I would maybe buy another Fender Jaguar.. but maybe an old 60's jag, made in america.
