Yeah, I talked to the guy I know at Fender. He said no purple. Doing a purple sparkle finish would raise the cost too much for a Squier.

I'll see if I can find out more about the pickups. I think I have his email somewhere. Everything was Squier that they demoed. And yeah, the bass they called 'humbucker bass' was active, as well as one called the 'Jaguar PJ,' which is the one that had both Jazz and P pickups. That one was pretty coo...

As far as the neck goes, I had to ask my studio manager, because he actually held it and played it (and again, I'm not a guitar player). The neck is a C-shape. Apparently, J is loving his Rory Gallagher Strat, and so the Squier guys copied the neck from that for this, so I'm guessing it's fairly sim...

Hello! Just happened across this forum while doing a search on this guitar, because I wanted to find out what folks thought of it. I'm a producer/engineer in AZ, and my studio owns a lot of guitars. Jazzmasters are my favorite (I'm not a competent player, but they are my favorite guitar, in terms of...