With all my recent pulling apart and rebuilding guitars I've had the opportunity to tru out different body/neck combinationd (thank god for split shaft tuners. When doing this I noticed something weird. Apart from a little difference in neck widh, all of my fender stuff, vintage and RI fit together well, screw holes and all apart from my Japanese Jaguar. It's one of the 95/96 MIJ ones. It also has what looks to be like factory installed brass shielding that's fully wired in.
Anyone have the same dealio? Does yours have the brass?
Weird, maybe it was part of the cuts from MIJ to CIJ or a facrory change. That'd negate the argument that the only difference between "Crafted" and "made" is the decal.
Mine is a MIJ '96, and I'm pretty sure I have that also. I haven't had the guard off in like 5 years so I can't positively say, but I remember some kind of brass plates being in there.
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Thomas wrote:Apart from a little difference in neck widh, all of my fender stuff, vintage and RI fit together well, screw holes and all apart from my Japanese Jaguar. It's one of the 95/96 MIJ ones.
Metric versus English is enough to crash space probes*; I figure it's enough to render guitars incompatible.
The difference between "American" and CIJ guitars has complicated a couple of project my projects.
No mystery - pre 97 MIJ Jags were made at Fuji-Gen Gakki and have brass shields. CIJs were made at Dyna Gakki and have shielding paint, as well as slightly different pickups (and pots?). Different companies, different construction.
my CIJ doesn't appear to have brass. shit looks black (commonly known as the black shit around the pickup route). however it does feature a big gnar-route right in the middle for possibility of achieving TEH STRATZ.
