Fender Jaguar Solid Body Electric Guitar (1965)
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Fender Jaguar Model Solid Body Electric Guitar (1965), made in Fullerton, California, serial # L52721, sunburst lacquer finish, alder body, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, original black tolex hard shell case.
This is amazingly well-preserved example of a Turn-of-CBS era Jaguar, one of the cleanest we have seen 60 years along. Except for one bash mark on the lower rim (somebody dropped it once?) and a couple of random dinks and dents the instrument shows only the lightest surface handling wear and remains in extremely fine playing condition. It also dates to a pivotal moment in Fender history.
This guitar was being built just as the Fender sell-out to CBS was happening; the stamped neck date is the same month of the contract signing January 1965; and the pots date to the 50th week of 1964. Although technically a 1965 guitar it retains all late 1964 features include an unbound rosewood fingerboard with the older style "clay" dot inlay, bright 3-color "target" sunburst lacquer finish on the body and gold transition logo headstock decal. The pickguard is the older nitrocellulose tortoise style, soon phased out at Fender in favor of a thinner (and less flammable!) ABS plastic. The guitar includes a very clean original case, strap and even the store price tag!
Having recently undergone a strong revival over the last decades, the Jaguar still remains a somewhat misunderstood guitar with several interesting features. The scale length is shorter than other professional-grade Fender guitars at 24", a feature designed to enhance playability. The "offset" body style, two-circuit wiring and floating vibrato are shared with the Jaguar's ancestor, the Jazzmaster, but the guitar actually feels quite different. The unique Jaguar pickups with the chrome-plated "claw" baseplate are optimized for clarity and crispness, factors that led to the model losing popularity in the late '60s as twang went out and distortion and crunch came in! Nevertheless, these top-of-the line 1960s Fenders are very high quality guitars, and extremely well suited to today's lower volume but often effects laden environment. This is simply a spectacular example!
Overall length is 40 in. (101.6 cm.), 14 in. (35.6 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 24 in. (610 mm.). Width of nut is 1 5/8 in. (41 mm.).
As noted this is simply a very clean guitar overall, and 100% original, unaltered since it left Fullerton in 1965. There is one impact mark on the turn of the lower rim at the peak of the offset extension; it looks like the guitar hit something and the spot has been lightly touched up. There are a couple of tiny dinks to the top above the upper control panel and a few miniscule chips by the neck pocket, apart from these there are just some light handling marks overall. This is all pretty minor; the finish shows hardly any fade and the guitar is still shining like it was 1965!
Internally the guitar is untouched original and the factory shims are still in the neck pocket. All hardware is intact and very clean including the (hardened) mute foam, trem arm and the often-lost snap-on bridge cover. Whoever bought this guitar originally (for $379.50 plus $52.50 for the case, according to the original price tag) simply did not use it much, and it has sat waiting to be played since. This is simply a really superb old Jaguar, shining bright and ready to twang again in the clean original case with the original strap and polish cloth included. Excellent + Condition.
This is amazingly well-preserved example of a Turn-of-CBS era Jaguar, one of the cleanest we have seen 60 years along. Except for one bash mark on the lower rim (somebody dropped it once?) and a couple of random dinks and dents the instrument shows only the lightest surface handling wear and remains in extremely fine playing condition. It also dates to a pivotal moment in Fender history.
This guitar was being built just as the Fender sell-out to CBS was happening; the stamped neck date is the same month of the contract signing January 1965; and the pots date to the 50th week of 1964. Although technically a 1965 guitar it retains all late 1964 features include an unbound rosewood fingerboard with the older style "clay" dot inlay, bright 3-color "target" sunburst lacquer finish on the body and gold transition logo headstock decal. The pickguard is the older nitrocellulose tortoise style, soon phased out at Fender in favor of a thinner (and less flammable!) ABS plastic. The guitar includes a very clean original case, strap and even the store price tag!
Having recently undergone a strong revival over the last decades, the Jaguar still remains a somewhat misunderstood guitar with several interesting features. The scale length is shorter than other professional-grade Fender guitars at 24", a feature designed to enhance playability. The "offset" body style, two-circuit wiring and floating vibrato are shared with the Jaguar's ancestor, the Jazzmaster, but the guitar actually feels quite different. The unique Jaguar pickups with the chrome-plated "claw" baseplate are optimized for clarity and crispness, factors that led to the model losing popularity in the late '60s as twang went out and distortion and crunch came in! Nevertheless, these top-of-the line 1960s Fenders are very high quality guitars, and extremely well suited to today's lower volume but often effects laden environment. This is simply a spectacular example!
Overall length is 40 in. (101.6 cm.), 14 in. (35.6 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 24 in. (610 mm.). Width of nut is 1 5/8 in. (41 mm.).
As noted this is simply a very clean guitar overall, and 100% original, unaltered since it left Fullerton in 1965. There is one impact mark on the turn of the lower rim at the peak of the offset extension; it looks like the guitar hit something and the spot has been lightly touched up. There are a couple of tiny dinks to the top above the upper control panel and a few miniscule chips by the neck pocket, apart from these there are just some light handling marks overall. This is all pretty minor; the finish shows hardly any fade and the guitar is still shining like it was 1965!
Internally the guitar is untouched original and the factory shims are still in the neck pocket. All hardware is intact and very clean including the (hardened) mute foam, trem arm and the often-lost snap-on bridge cover. Whoever bought this guitar originally (for $379.50 plus $52.50 for the case, according to the original price tag) simply did not use it much, and it has sat waiting to be played since. This is simply a really superb old Jaguar, shining bright and ready to twang again in the clean original case with the original strap and polish cloth included. Excellent + Condition.