There's going to be an American Vintage 2 series apparently.

[JSett]

Fender may have always planned to use the correct headstock shape but just wanted to work their way through the stock of neck blanks they had leftover from the AO line.

These looks absolutely gorgeous and make me very excited for the Jags. A LPB Jag with B&B would be bucket list material

Well, they were definitely using up AO bodies as my one had an AO sticker underneath the pickups so you might be right

[Pacafeliz]

OH SHIT

it'll be difficult to resist a red one now

[DavidG]

I belong to the minority of people here who prefer the small headstock version of the lake placid blue model. I am about to post something in the wanted section.

I am also in that minority. I think the period correct headstock is ugly as hell.

I own a AVII LPB 66 with the wrong headstock, and I'm still fine with it

[superficial]

Yeah, I’m in team small headstock too. I prefer that more than I care about vintage accuracy.

Big headstocks are more tolerable when painted, though, so I wouldn’t kick one of these out of bed. Happy with my AO, though.

[ainm]

Doesn’t matter to me. If I had to choose, I slightly prefer the smaller headstock on the Jazzmasters. I’d have more of an opinion on Jags. I prefer a bigger headstock on those - no idea why.

Although if I do get an AVii at any point, period-correctness won’t be an influence. Feel good, sound good, look good and 7.25” radius are my criteria. These tick those boxes. Excited by the possibility of a Jag, but wouldn’t care if they did them in modern colours and poly finishes. That might even be nice?

[mcbrandt]

Anyone bored and want to post a side by side pic of the headstocks? I can't really tell them apart from glancing at photos in random threads.

[marginwalker]

Fender may have always planned to use the correct headstock shape but just wanted to work their way through the stock of neck blanks they had leftover from the AO line.

These looks absolutely gorgeous and make me very excited for the Jags. A LPB Jag with B&B would be bucket list material

Well, they were definitely using up AO bodies as my one had an AO sticker underneath the pickups so you might be right

Yeah they definitely did use up their AO neck stock cuz I saw a brand new one with a dot and bound neck, as well as a LPB with an unpainted headstock…would’ve made for a cool 70’s AVRI model if it had the big headstock lol

[MrFingers]

Anyone bored and want to post a side by side pic of the headstocks? I can't really tell them apart from glancing at photos in random threads.

Or as an overlay between 65 & 66 (CBS)

[AwesomeWelles]

Kinda makes you wonder why they did that in the first place. The Pre-CBS JM headstock was already a way larger than the Strat headstock and the difference between the two JM headstocks is fairly minimal

[MrFingers]

Because they went to the CBS headstock for all models in 1966 (except Telecaster & Coronado)

[AwesomeWelles]

Ah, so Strat CBS and JM CBS are the same...I hadn't realized that

Thanks!

[mekhem]

Well... Checking the stupid Sweetwater website yesterday for the "Guitar Gallery"celebration or whatever... Made the mistake of clicking on the AVII 66 Jazzmaster in Dakota Red just to see - since they weirdly had them in stock - and they did have 2...1 at 7lbs even with a super dark board.... and I just could not pass that up.... Headstock and all (which kind of bugs me but not nearly as much as some). Ill get it on Friday so well see if some of the early issue have been fixed....

[mcbrandt]

I just saw they have a demo model listed for $2159, in case anyone's interested.

[mekhem]

Well - based on the reports of initial QC I am not sure that a demo model from SW would be a good idea.

Buying from SW does have some virtues (no interest for 24/36/48 months, see the guitar you want, pretty good customer service) but you cant ask for someone to go and check the fretwork from 12-21 or ask if it neck dives like crazy, or what the neck profile is like like you can from other shops.

[wooderson]

I saw that 7 pounder and almost clicked buy (despite the headstock) but convinced myself it was a typo (because I do not need another guitar until/unless AVII Jags appear).