1962 Jaguar - finally!!

[JSett]

Fucking GREAT tort on that too. Congratulations!

By all means you can choose not to but I follow the prices of these pretty well so I'm curious as to what the 'real world shop' price you paid was. Only if you want to share of course.

Thanks dude! Yeah I absolutely love the way the tort looks!

And yeah no problem at all with sharing! I traded in a 78 SG Special ($1500) and paid $5600 including taxes. The sales tax is kinda crazy in Oakland at 10.25% lol. The guitar was tagged $7200 in the shop and they had it for like $8049 on Reverb

That seems to be about bang on trend then, well done!

[marginwalker]

Fucking GREAT tort on that too. Congratulations!

By all means you can choose not to but I follow the prices of these pretty well so I'm curious as to what the 'real world shop' price you paid was. Only if you want to share of course.

Thanks dude! Yeah I absolutely love the way the tort looks!

And yeah no problem at all with sharing! I traded in a 78 SG Special ($1500) and paid $5600 including taxes. The sales tax is kinda crazy in Oakland at 10.25% lol. The guitar was tagged $7200 in the shop and they had it for like $8049 on Reverb

That seems to be about bang on trend then, well done!

Thanks I’m feeling pretty good about it! Tho a local 71 CAR Jag with a maple B&B neck just popped up on my reverb feed and part of me wants to see if they’ll trade lol

[crazyzeke]

The wear on the neck is just perfect. I always love seeing real-deal play wear, and how unique it is to the original player and playing style, as opposed to the the more generic "worn all over" look of modern relics.

Also interesting that the back of the neck is relatively natural in color, no reddish/amber.

Both good observations, especially the first one. As soon as I saw the played-in neck versus the overall excellent condition, I was like "this is a beautiful example of a players guitar, used but not abused" because too little playwear on a vintage piece usually means it isn't very playable.

Is it possible the guitar was assembled in 63 using some 62 parts? The nut is the only thing I’m certain is a replacement.

It's Fender, so yes, absolutely. That'd be the "grab parts from anywhere as you build" era so you'd get mashups of different years sometimes, totally normal.

If you do disassemble for more inspection it might be measuring the pickup output, if you can. I'd guess both the original and replacement pickups would be vintage-correct 6k-7k DC resistance range but you never know.

Very pretty guitar. You could easily have paid more for less, by which I mean a more beat up one for a few more thousand than you actually paid, and obviously still way cheaper than any good Strat from the same year so a good deal, especially as you traded in instruments you probably weren't playing much anyway. Better to have fewer guitars that get played more that you get super comfy with.

[Guitarman555]

Staggered poles on Jag pickups didn't start until mid-63, so the bridge pickup is a definitely later replacement.

Regardless, it looks like an awesome guitar!!

Did you check the code on the bottom of the pickup and colour of the bottom black/white bottom? Looks like a great jag!

[ryandennis]

Congrats on the new guitar, looks like a lovely example of a nice 62'

[kapepper]

Congratulations for your beautiful Jaguar !!!!

[BornToHula]

Wow. She is perfect!!! Enjoy!!

[marginwalker]

Thanks all, but sadly sold the guitar after I convinced myself I should buy a house. Ended up not buying the house due to some last minute complications So bummed

[Elvis63]

Damn.

[kapepper]

Thanks all, but sadly sold the guitar after I convinced myself I should buy a house. Ended up not buying the house due to some last minute complications So bummed

[marginwalker]

Yeah I’m still pretty damn sad about it…that guitar was perfect

[Guitarman555]

Perfect guitar! Have you looked at the pickups bottom, if there is a stamp ilon the bottom of the staggered one (would be 64 pickup) and winding, if purplish (plain enamel9or orange(formvar)?

[marginwalker]

Perfect guitar! Have you looked at the pickups bottom, if there is a stamp ilon the bottom of the staggered one (would be 64 pickup) and winding, if purplish (plain enamel9or orange(formvar)?

Don’t have it anymore unfortunately

[Guitarman555]

Perfect guitar! Have you looked at the pickups bottom, if there is a stamp ilon the bottom of the staggered one (would be 64 pickup) and winding, if purplish (plain enamel9or orange(formvar)?

Don’t have it anymore unfortunately

What happened?

[marginwalker]

Perfect guitar! Have you looked at the pickups bottom, if there is a stamp ilon the bottom of the staggered one (would be 64 pickup) and winding, if purplish (plain enamel9or orange(formvar)?

Don’t have it anymore unfortunately

What happened?

Thanks all, but sadly sold the guitar after I convinced myself I should buy a house. Ended up not buying the house due to some last minute complications So bummed