NGD: CP Jaguar

StevePirates · Post by **StevePirates** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 11:57 pm

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I picked this up for $500 and change off of eBay. The seller somehow sent it to my old address in San Diego, which was odd. But it finally made its way up to Reno, and it is really nice. Sounds like a Jaguar ought to. The neck feels good, and the frets are nice and smooth. The only wonky thing is the nut, which is wider than the neck and overhangs on both sides a little. Nothing that can't be fixed with a file.

StevePirates · Post by **StevePirates** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 12:00 am

Sadly, the photo is properly oriented on my desktop, but has rotated 90 degrees the wrong somewhere between my computer, the uploader, and this board. Oh well. You all know what these things look like.

ac88 · Post by **ac88** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 12:37 am

5 hundo for super slick sunburst Jaguar is awesome! Super jelly. Do you own any other fenders? How would you compare the pickups to other single coils?

StevePirates · Post by **StevePirates** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 12:47 am

ac88 wrote:5 hundo for super slick sunburst Jaguar is awesome! Super jelly. Do you own any other fenders? How would you compare the pickups to other single coils?

My wife has an MIM SSS Strat. They sound different. I'm not the best at describing how things sound. I would say that the psychoacoustic difference that I perceive is about the same as the difference between an Emin chord (for the strat) to an Bmin chord (for the jag). The Jaguar has almost a hollow tone to it.

It's different, for sure. It's not like saying that a Tele is more jangly and brighter than a Strat. The difference is more subtle, and to my ear has more to do with presence and fullness than brightness/darkness. In essence, it's more a difference in timbre than tone.

It does seem to hum less than the strat. I don't know if that's from the magic claws, or just better wiring.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 12:52 am

StevePirates wrote: The Jaguar has almost a hollow tone to it.

I'd agree with that term. I think it's because of the far lesser string tension (even on a CP) to a strat bridge, because I find Jazzies have it too, and Mustangs have a less pronounced thing in the same vibe.

Medicine Melancholy · Post by **Medicine Melancholy** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 1:15 am

What you call "hollow" I think I'd call complex, perhaps even jangly... there's a certain roundness to the Strat sounds maybe, but that also makes it a very basic sound in a sense, same with humbuckers. Offsets have a more jagged sound to me. If that makes any sense. It just sounds to me like they have more complex/less orderly harmonics. Be interesting to compare them properly.

I wonder if the CP Jag's tone edges a bit more on Jazzmaster territory thanks to the "bigger" pickups. It could be a good go between for people looking at Jags and JMs. Maybe a bit more Strat like thanks to the new bridge too.