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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?

Mine's a 2006 CIJ and has no brass at all

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.

Anyone else?

Friend o' mine has a Japanese Jag from that era, also has teh Brazz. 96' if my memory is correct.

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.

mine is a cij and has the brass shields

holyCATS1415 wrote:mine is a cij and has the brass shields

What year?

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.




*See/R.I.P. the Mars Climate Orbiter

Jazzmasters and mustangs i've tried seem to work fine. Just my Jaguars are weird.

The shields vs no shields seems quite random..

What is that picture trying to show? Just the brass? Or the screw holes? My '94 MIJ had brass, but it was one of those "LE" models.

I just thought perhaps it was only MIJ that had them, but not sure.

Anyone know if it makes much difference ?

I don't have another one to compare it to. Lefty Jags are obscenely expensive. I lucked out when I bought mine back in '00.

My Jag is really quiet, though, compared to my SuperSonic.

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.

Did I say "shielding paint"? Of course, I meant to type "the black shit around the pickup route". Sorry guys.
Both my 90s MIJs have the brass.

holyCATS1415 wrote:mine is a cij and has the brass shields

I had thought it was a MIJ Vs CIJ until this post. This one sees to be the exception then.

94-95 CAR Jag WITH brass

MIJ I assume then?

MatthewK wrote:MIJ I assume then?

Yup. Serial starts with '007.' Badass

'98 CIJ with no brass, but I'm 90% sure from memory that it has foil shielding of some type on the underside of the pickguard.