Posts Tagged ‘jag-stang’
Forum member Garagetone recently posted up some info and photos about a Jazzstang project he is working on. You can see a few select photos and quotes from his thread in the post below.
To see even more photos and information see the full forum thread HERE.
After I crafted a bunch of “standard” bodies, I decided to merge the guitars from my two favorite bands. Kurdt’s Jag Stang, with Thurston’s Jazzmaster. – Garagetone
Nice work Garagetone!
Jazzstang Design
Jazzstang Build Body Blank
Jazzstang Build - body routed and shaped
Jazzstang Build - hardware mounting
Jazzstang Build - hardware mounting
Jazzstang Build - painted
Jazzstang Build - with neck
EDIT: Updated with demo video.
Check out more from Garagetone on his Myspace Page.
punkacc9 has put together a great video tribute to the jag-stang! It’s a slideshow of great jag-stang photos backed by nirvana soundtrack. You can see the video embedded below but also check out the forum thread. [forum thread]
You’re also welcome to share photos of your jag-stang with us all in this forum thread. [Pics of Your Jag-Stangs]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-A9PRuoJr8
nicely done punkacc9!!
Check out the very detailed Fender jag-stang video review brought to you by David Taub at nextlevelguitar.com. David goes over all the details of the jag-stang, the history behind it, and plays a bit so you can hear what it sounds like.
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It’s been well known that there were 2 original prototype jag-stangs made by Fender at the time Kurt Cobain died. There was a sonic blue prototype that was played by Kurt on a few European tour dates. (see video in previous post) It was given to Peter Buck of REM after Cobain died. You can see Buck playing the lefty jag-stang flipped righty in the REM video “what´s the frequency kenneth”. Does anyone know where the blue jag-stang is today?
The fiesta red prototype never made it to Kurt. Fender was preparing to ship the guitar to Kurt when they got news of his death. It originally ended up in the Fender Museum. Forum member ‘prospect’ posted some of his great photos and information from the Fender museum which is shared below. [forum link]
These photos are from Fender’s Museum in California from a few years back. It is my understanding that this is now currently on display either in Seattle or Cleveland.
On Kurt’s drawing the surrounding information you see is for when it was scanned for “Journals”. The “blacked out” area is contact information for Kurt and his guitar tech which was to not be printed in “Journals”.
(Click images below for larger versions)
If you have any more info on the current locations of the fiesta red or sonic blue prototype jag-stangs let us know.
While Kurt wasn’t alive long enough for us to see him play the jag-stang very much there were some shows during the ’94 European tour where he did.
Below is one of the better quality videos of Kurt playing the jag-stang on the song Dumb from the Slovenia 2/27/94 tour date. Thanks to Ryan for suggesting us post this on our blog! If you see other cool jag-stang videos that we should post let us know.
Forum member iCEByTes has put together a gorgeous custom jag-stang project guitar.
For all the details on his project and all the folks who contributed to it visit this forum post. [url] You could also post any questions to the creator there.
Some of the specs on the guitar are:
- neck: 24″ C shape (copy of jag-stang neck)
- body: ash (copy of jag-stang body ash), with straight humbucker and contours
- pickups: Seymour Duncan Lipstick SLS-n and Seymour Duncan JB
Below are a few photos of the project jagstang.
If you have a custom jag-stang, jaguar, or mustang project guitar send us your photos! We’ll put up a post to show off your project.
A common question of new owners of guitars with a Dynamic Vibrato is how to keep the tremolo arm in the tailpiece bar. The tremolo/bridge unit of the Fender jag-stang and most mustangs is a Dynamic Vibrato, so this article applies to both the jag-stang and mustang.
The first thing to know is that the tremolo bar itself does not “snap” or screw into place like the tremolo bar of a stratocaster. The tremolo bar is held in place by pressure from a small allen screw in the tailpiece bar.
The photo below points to the location of this allen screw. Note the location indicated by the blue arrow pointing into the end of the tailpiece bar.
So to hold your tremolo bar in place get the bar in a position you are comfortable with and then snug the screw in the end of the tailpiece using a 4mm (or 5/32″) allen wrench. Don’t over tighten this screw. (see below)
So another very common problem is that the screw in the end of the tailpiece bar will be missing. They fall out very easily.
There are not a lot of options for finding a replacement screw. You may have to buy an entire dynamic vibrato tailpiece that includes the screw. Or another option would be to pull the tailpiece bar off the guitar and take it into your local hardware store looking for a screw that will fit.
[If anyone has found an exact replacement for this screw please let us know the details and we'll add it to this article.]
