Anyone have a Thin Skin Jag?

letsgocoyote · Post by **letsgocoyote** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 10:37 pm

i have a hankering for a jag, especially one of the thin skin ones. i see wildwood and daves still have some in stock....

dont know that I could ever afford one but they sure are purty

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 10:51 pm

Don't own one, but I've played a few. They are on par with other avri's but the 9" radius turns me off a bit.

aen · Post by **aen** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 10:53 pm

I have played a lot of them at Daves.
1) they are fucking amazing
2) they are gorgeous
3) they are light
4) they are cheaper new than an AV.

I can't figure out why there are any left.

letsgocoyote · Post by **letsgocoyote** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 11:38 pm

im wondering if i should sell all my life possessions and my Mustang so i can get one. i want the daphne blue mucho

Post by **Mike** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:14 am

I used to want one really badly, but seeing as they're only in the States it wasn't actually that much more for me to get my '66

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 10:01 am

Yep, my '66 was actually cheaper than a new thin skin over here. They look delicious though, if i hadn't got my current jag i'd probably have opted for a daphne or fiesta one.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 10:30 am

Sale price at Wildwood is like Â£1000. Got knows what APPLICABLE TAX, shipping and import taxes would be.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:28 am

I seem to remember something like Â£1600 being the going rate.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:38 am

yeah - napes.

letsgocoyote · Post by **letsgocoyote** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:02 pm

I should probably just learn to be satisfied with my Mustang!

I just have been watching lot's of Beach Boys and other stuff on Youtube and watching the dude play a jag and it got me stoked... Plus the price for the thin skins seems pretty fair in the USA... my local shop was actually a third dealer for the thin skins besides dave and wildwood, although they didnt advertise it much at all. unfortunately they only have teles and strats left. but i have a friend with a daphne blue jazzy, another with a sherwood strat, and another with a fiesta tele custom. the finish is awesome. i dig that it will relic itself.

$1600 though... le sigh

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:43 pm

stewart wrote:I seem to remember something like Â£1600 being the going rate.

sheeee-ittt.

http://www.mormusic.co.uk/product/new-product-01

Â£1669.51

that's nearly Â£300 more than i paid for my vintage one. still, some folk like new guitars better, especially sexy daphne blue ones.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:50 pm

Importing that one from Wildwood would cost you Â£1300 tops (I realising I'm enabling in the wind here, but just saying).

Although now I think about it, a lot of US shops won't send new Fender gear tot he UK because Fender tell them off.

dkoor · Post by **dkoor** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:52 pm

Mike wrote:Sale price at Wildwood is like Â£1000. Got knows what APPLICABLE TAX, shipping and import taxes would be.

They don't ship Fenders overseas (written on their Fender subpage). Just sayin'.... otherwise I'd be interested in some gear there.

dkoor · Post by **dkoor** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 9:17 pm

Haze wrote:but the 9" radius turns me off a bit.

+1

I have AVRi Fender Strat with 7,25" and vintage frets and that's the way I like Fenders...

BillClay · Post by **BillClay** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:53 am

Dumb question but are thin skins only sold through select dealers like wildwood?

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:46 am

CC Mucic has them in stock (Glasgow) Far too expensive. Now on sale at Â£1650 from Â£1800. Waaay into vintage territory. You could grab a vintage jaguar and a mustang or something for that price. In fact the combined cost of my 66 Jag and 66 Coronado was much less. I had enough change to buy a MM body, neck and parts for a whole other guitar. With the current rate of exchange any UK buyer would be mental for looking anywhere but the US secondhand market right now.

The idea of a brand new Jag does appeal (I've never actually had one) but it'd have to a "money is no object" situation.

dkoor · Post by **dkoor** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:02 pm

Â£1650 is absolutely outrageous price, even for UK (I noticed you guys have highest prices on ebay

).

In any case I believe for such pricing you could get vintage Jaguar or mid/late 70s Strat no prob.

aen · Post by **aen** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:41 pm

Ummm, well I know a guy whos worked at Daves for like 11 years. So if anybody from the UK wants to buy one at like $1600 (plus shipping) I could handle that

EDIT: they upped them to $1600 (982 pounds as of today) sorry bros.
Probably under 1200 pounds all told, shipping and whatnot. Also if you can put a gutar together, I can take it apart and ship it as "project" or "parts" or summat.

Post by **dots** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:55 pm

i wish the avri's had been designed with matching headstocks. at that price point, it seems a silly oversight.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:12 pm

dots wrote:i wish the avri's had been designed with matching headstocks. at that price point, it seems a silly oversight.

There was a run of them with all the normal AVRI specs, made in America for the Japanese market. I think there was only like 50 Jaguars and 50 Jazzmasters.