Jaguar Bass

[Chris P.]

That SX is nice, but I don't like the really square part uf the pickguard. And it has J pick ups again. But thios bass could be a nice project bass.

[Dave W]

Unfortunately, no.

[Barklessdog]

The one Fender I would seriously consider buying. I would to see pictures of those custom shop ones.

[Dave W]

I became aware of them because of a guy who posted at the FDP in the early years. IIRC, he had spotted a couple at Elderly and bought one. Or maybe Elderly only had one of them, I'm not sure. But after he bought his, there was another one still for sale, from Elderly or from a dealer on eBay. I had bookmarked a photo of it that he had put up on Photopoint, but they went belly up. My first computer  had such a small hard drive I hardly ever saved pics of basses to it.

[ilan]

[Dave W]

Ilan, is that one of the CS run? I don't remember the guard but otherwise it looks right.

[bobyoung]

Aren't Jaguar basses really just J basses with different cosmetics and a few (well actually many) switches?

[Dave W]

Aren't Jaguar basses really just J basses with different cosmetics and a few (well actually many) switches?

The regular (MIJ) Jaguar basses do have J pickups with an active preamp that can be turned on and off plus series/parallel switching.

[ilan]

Dave - it's a CS and the time frame is the same, but I thought it was a one-off. Guess I was wrong. Is it possible they did a run of four and some didn't have guards?

[Dave W]

Possible, but more likely I'm just not remembering the guard. Especially since I just scoured the FDP archives and found a discussion where the guard shape was mentioned. From what I can gather, it came up on the FDP after Steve Barr mentioned seeing it on his Fender CS calendar for 1999, meaning the run was probably made in 1998. The one on the calendar was LPB, and the Sherwood Green that Elderly had was bought by FDP'er MikeG. Mark Kendrick from Fender said that Flea had one of them, in black, and that Fender had the "original" which I suppose meant it was one of the four.

[Thornton Davis]

I've thought seriously about buying one, shielding the cavities (and whatever else it may take to eliminate the hum, if its present).

I owned three Jaguar basses up until a year ago (all at the sametime HHR, OW, SB). Fender did a poor job of grounding the electronics. All that's needed to eliminate the hum is to ground the 3 cavities where the electronics are located to one another. No shielding of the cavities is required. You can do it, but it's not necessary.

TD

[exiledarchangel]

What kinda pickup is that? Seems like a double J with MM polepieces.

[ilan]

Looks like the bridge pickup they used for the American Deluxe P.

[uwe]

I like the looks of the Jags and was almost tempted into buying one last week, but when I plugged it in I found neither its passive nor its active sound an eye opener. Passive it sounded like a Jazz, but not a great one, and active it sounded like a hundred other basses do, I missed a Fender characteristic.

[bobyoung]

Looks like the bridge pickup they used for the American Deluxe P.

It does but it also looks a little skinnier than the Fender's, they were humbuckers, I had one of those, strange combination.