Remember a Purple Custom Shop Jaguar?
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 8:48 am
Hello Dear Jag-Meisters :-)
I have a question for the older aficionados in this group (more of an archaeology thing, really).
Anyway, here goes:
Years ago (2000-2005?), in one of the British guitar mags (Guitar? Guitarist?) one of the writers had an offset guitar made especially for him by the Fender Custom Shop. I can’t help but still being intrigued by this specific guitar, but to my dismay I must have thrown out the magazine long ago.
What was it all about?
Well, it had:
- offset body in PURPLE or BLUE metallic flake
- maple neck with reverse headstock and pearloïd tuners
- 3 pickups: a P90, a standard Jag-like PU and a lipstick PU in the neck position (if I remember correctly)
- a “modern” bridge
- a simplified switching system
- it had a JAGUAR decal but the body could have been a Jag-Stang body.
It was such an oddball (yet exciting) guitar, with a bunch of “risky” decisions in the configuration and I’ve always wondered if the owner (the writer in that magazine) still had it, still used it… or whatever became of the guitar.
I can’t find any info online, so this is a message in a bottle kind of question, in the hope it will trigger someone’s memory.
I'd be excited to see a pic of it again - or even better to hear if the guitar is still in circulation :-)
Have a great day - stay safe!
I have a question for the older aficionados in this group (more of an archaeology thing, really).
Anyway, here goes:
Years ago (2000-2005?), in one of the British guitar mags (Guitar? Guitarist?) one of the writers had an offset guitar made especially for him by the Fender Custom Shop. I can’t help but still being intrigued by this specific guitar, but to my dismay I must have thrown out the magazine long ago.
What was it all about?
Well, it had:
- offset body in PURPLE or BLUE metallic flake
- maple neck with reverse headstock and pearloïd tuners
- 3 pickups: a P90, a standard Jag-like PU and a lipstick PU in the neck position (if I remember correctly)
- a “modern” bridge
- a simplified switching system
- it had a JAGUAR decal but the body could have been a Jag-Stang body.
It was such an oddball (yet exciting) guitar, with a bunch of “risky” decisions in the configuration and I’ve always wondered if the owner (the writer in that magazine) still had it, still used it… or whatever became of the guitar.
I can’t find any info online, so this is a message in a bottle kind of question, in the hope it will trigger someone’s memory.
I'd be excited to see a pic of it again - or even better to hear if the guitar is still in circulation :-)
Have a great day - stay safe!