Then I kept seeing the surf green Vintage Modified Jags on Youtube, and realised I fucking loved the vibe; a lil' more blue than I thought surf green normally was, so I manage to track down and Spangle one for a song on eBay; missing trem arm, small ding on the bottom bout, looked to be pretty much unplayed.
It arrived yesterday, still with the plastic on the guard (somehow still yellowed), the crummy stock bridge and nut cut by a blindfolded knife-thrower:
Post-lemon oil fretboard, non-oiled wood behind the nut; poor thing was GASPING
The body hadn't actually discoloured at all, I guess they've always been this colour but I'd just never seen one in the flesh before.
One of two spare trem arms I had left over from Staytrem arm-and-collet-ing my JM and CV Jag, a spare 9.5" bridge, a fresh white guard and a thorough setup later and we're laughing all the way to the pleasingly pastel-coloured bank.
For all intents and purposes, it plays, sounds and feels much like the CV (same weight, neck profile, same overwound bridge pup and all). However, just being a complete sucker for the 'improved' aesthetics of something is always somehow, stupidly, gonna inspire you more. I was having a jolly good twang this evening, and found myself really enjoying the extra controls the Jag has over the JM.
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(my timing is trash here for some reason?? Long day.)
I'd found a set of CV Jag pickups I original got to sub-in the bridge unit for a neck unit on the CV (as I did on my JM, a more vintagey pairing), but having the different vibes here is more appealing now. Lucky, it's a very easy change on a Jag, so I might have a bash at some point later. I've already sanded off the 'Seymour Duncan' naming off them as it was just ruining everything.
Hooray, colours!
(nb: will likely be selling off the CV, so get your dibs in now if you're interested)
