Bound Seafoam Jaguars, TEH Kurtz, and Ode to Deutchland

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:35 am

I was meeting a guy off CL at a Guitar Center to buy his EHX Memory Boy pedal and he was running late. So I decided to go browse around inside. As I headed towards the Guitar wall, I noticed a lot of new Jaguar style guitars on the wall. I first spotted a black Blacktop Jaguar and Jazzmaster. Never been a huge fan of the Blacktop guitars. Then I noticed this Seafoam green Jaguar. What caught my eye more than the color was the fact the neck was bound. I picked it up and the neck felt really good. I looked at the sticker. It was Seafoam Green Blacktop Jaguar with a bound neck for $599. The price is $100 more than the normal BT Jaguar. They also had one in a color called Blizzard. I played it quickly through a Fender Pro Junior. I was pretty impressed. Despite being out of tune a bit, the pickups sounded great and the neck played like butter. Best playing Mexican Fender I have picked up recently. They also put normal Jaguar knobs instead of witch hat knobs and the pot heights looked better. I would love to steal one of these necks for a guitar project.

Bound Blacktop Jaguars

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They also had 2 Modern Player Jaguars. The p-90 pickups sounded great and the necks also played awesome for a Chinese guitar. If I had a tuner, I could have evaluated it better. Both Colors(walnut and red) looked nice in person.

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The other day I got to play TEH KURTZ Jaguar. The binding on the neck felt awkward and the headstock looked dumb. The pickups sounded nice and full. For $1200, It's not bad, but that's expensive for a Made in Mexico guitar.

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Lastly, they had a First Act Volkswagen guitar that was sold a few years back with the cars. Tuners were weak, but it had onboard fuzz pedal, which almost sounded good. For $100, it would have been a fun project.

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cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:52 am

Holy shit. Is that even on the Fender site? Seafoam with binding looks great!

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:53 am

cobascis wrote:Holy shit. Is that even on the Fender site? Seafoam with binding looks great!

I checked and it wasn't there.

Billy3000 · Post by **Billy3000** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:45 am

That seafoam green jag is sexy as hell! But that black pickguard has got to go!

SKC Willie · Post by **SKC Willie** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:50 am

not to be a dick, but you should learn how to tune a guitar without a tuner. Even if it's not exactly EADGBe, you should be able to get the guitar in tune with itself.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:41 am

Think it's great that they're finally doing binding with dots.

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:06 am

Fender needs to do more fucking binding.

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:09 am

SKC Willie wrote:not to be a dick, but you should learn how to tune a guitar without a tuner. Even if it's not exactly EADGBe, you should be able to get the guitar in tune with itself.

These guitars obviously just got put on the wall and had not been tuned. I could have tuned it, but I only had a couple minutes before my meetup, so I just wanted to quick demo each guitar before I had to go. The modern player jags were so far out of tune you would have needed a tuner.

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:01 am

I hope that eBay site that gets guitars and strips them down for parts gets some of these bound Jag necks. Totally grabbing one for my Jag. The existing neck is pretty banged up and the frets are totally worn down.

othomas2 · Post by **othomas2** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:54 pm

I heard PaulK got the job.

montheshakers · Post by **montheshakers** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:41 pm

Sweet Moses that surf green Jaguar looks awesome. I think the black pickguard works well with the green. That neck binding is something too!, do 7ender do many guitars with the neck binding?
Because i rarely see them or am i just blind

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:08 pm

the modern jaguars are MIC?

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:12 pm

hotrodperlmutter wrote:the modern jaguars are MIC?

That's what it said on the Headstock. The neck felt as good as a MIJ one.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:24 pm

HOLY SHIT THEY ARE MAKING A RUN OF MATT SKIBA JAGUARS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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chrismakesgod · Post by **chrismakesgod** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:12 am

Fender really should get those strat jacks right to fuck.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 6:04 am

so i posted that SFG jaguar on Matt Skiba's twitter account....he actually retweeted it for everyone to see and now my shit is blowing up with questions like WHERE IS THIS GUITAR AT? IS THIS OFFICIAL SKIBA GUITAR? FUCK YOU DUDE THIS IS FAKE. THIS RULES.

my shit is blowing up.

thanks for the promo

gypsyseven · Post by **gypsyseven** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 6:05 am

That seafoam green looks soooooooooooo fucking fantastic!

singlepup · Post by **singlepup** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:36 am

robroe wrote:so i posted that SFG jaguar on Matt Skiba's twitter account....he actually retweeted it for everyone to see and now my shit is blowing up with questions like WHERE IS THIS GUITAR AT? IS THIS OFFICIAL SKIBA GUITAR? FUCK YOU DUDE THIS IS FAKE. THIS RULES.

my shit is blowing up.

thanks for the promo

play on playa'

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 2:01 am

Kurt's Jag on the bay, used $1,000

http://www.ebay.com/itm/FENDER-Kurt-Cob ... 20c1b8300c

hilaryroe · Post by **hilaryroe** » Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:56 pm

We are at gc now rob is in love. Its actually sea foam green pearl!!! New colorfor the color chart