ShortScale.org

It's about 20 minutes away from me.

http://baltimore.craigslist.org/msg/1138364771.html

i've only played one. needs new pickups. not worth the dough unfortunately. especially fiesta. blech.

Even the people on the forum who have one and are fond of it still seem to complain about one design flaw or another. The pickups do seem to be the #1 complaint.

They just look awkward to me. But it's a pretty cheap fender shortscale.

I just don't like'm.

I played one at GC a couple of years ago.I was surprised by how heavy it was.

They are great guitars. They play very well, and have probably the nicest neck you will ever play. add to that the loveliness of the neck pickup, and you have a great guitar.

The looks are something you'll either love or hate.

BacchusPaul wrote:They are great guitars. They play very well, and have probably the nicest neck you will ever play. add to that the loveliness of the neck pickup, and you have a great guitar.

The looks are something you'll either love or hate.

There seems to be a general consensus on the neck being tits (at least since I've been reading this forum). Is it really any different from a Japanese Jag or Mustang neck, tho?

i believe it is a jap stang neck. b width obviously. the guitar was pretty close to what i would perceive as the intended design except the contours. kurt (i believe) only played 69 and later stangs (RI's included).

Never had the opportunity to play, let alone see one, but at $450, that's still a great price.

MaMo wrote:

BacchusPaul wrote:They are great guitars. They play very well, and have probably the nicest neck you will ever play. add to that the loveliness of the neck pickup, and you have a great guitar.

The looks are something you'll either love or hate.

There seems to be a general consensus on the neck being tits (at least since I've been reading this forum). Is it really any different from a Japanese Jag or Mustang neck, tho?

No idea. I understand it's a reproduction of Kurt's favourite neck, but I don't know how true that is, I don't know what the original neck was (if it existed) and I don't know how consistant the necks are, but I've only heard good things.

BacchusPaul wrote:No idea. I understand it's a reproduction of Kurt's favourite neck, but I don't know how true that is, I don't know what the original neck was (if it existed) and I don't know how consistant the necks are, but I've only heard good things.

I've always read it was off his mustang (my guess being the competition one), but I can feel a difference between jag a mustang necks. It's not a real big thing, but it's kind of like those people who can tell the difference between coke and pepsi I guess.

"collision of contemporary features fused together to create a radical new Fender guitar."

utter bollocks.

kurtsequipment.com wrote:The guitar features a Mustang-style short-scale
neck on a body that borrows from both designs.

kurtsequipment.com also wrote:The resulting instrument has an alder body, plus a 24-inch
scale maple neck with a rosewood fretboard and vintage-style
fretwire.

Wikipedia wrote:It employs the Mustang's "Dynamic Vibrato" bridge and like both of its predecessors, it has a 24" short scale neck (an exact replica of Cobain's favorite neck, from a Fender Mustang).

looked like a RI neck if i'd ever seen one.

I've come to the conclusion that RI mustangs and jaguars share the same neck.

silly_rabbit_band wrote:I've come to the conclusion that RI mustangs and jaguars share the same neck.

but you can spot a difference, eh? keen, you are.

hotrodperlmutter wrote:

silly_rabbit_band wrote:I've come to the conclusion that RI mustangs and jaguars share the same neck.

but you can spot a difference, eh? keen, you are.

Between vintage mustangs and jags, yes, I've only played one RI jag, and it's neck felt the same as my RI mustang.

I got my JS body way back when from Aug and built my own.It has a mustang neck I bought in 1980 or so with a brass nut.The neck pup is a mustang pup.The bridge is a SD 59 Jazz.I just like everything about it.

silly_rabbit_band wrote:

hotrodperlmutter wrote:

silly_rabbit_band wrote:I've come to the conclusion that RI mustangs and jaguars share the same neck.

but you can spot a difference, eh? keen, you are.

Between vintage mustangs and jags, yes, I've only played one RI jag, and it's neck felt the same as my RI mustang.

The CIJ '62 Jaguar and CIJ '69 Mustang necks are different.
The CIJ '69 Mustang neck and Jag-Stang neck are VERY probably the same neck with a different decal.

Kurt's custom shop Jag-Stangs may have had a custom neck, but the production one has a Mustang neck on it. It is nice.
I have a Jag-Stang and a Jaguar and they're definitely different, the back of the Jag neck seems a bit flatter/thinner in the middle, which makes the fretboard feel wider.

If nothing else, the headstocks are slightly different shapes. Look next to the low E tuning machine and where the taper into the neck profile begins.

I'd Try it out first
if you like it then buy it
its not worth buying it if its crap

I've played one Jaguar, and the neck was a very different shape from the Jag-stang I have. It had a lot more shoulder.