Mustang RI vs Jag-Stang Necks

OceanTurquoiseMetallic

Salutations; I was wondering if there was a diffrence between the neck on reissue Mustangs and Jag-Stangs. I know they are the same scale but do they have the same profile? Supposedly the neck on the Jag-Stang is modeled after the neck of Kurt's favorite Mustang. So if they are the same do reissue Mustangs have Jag-Stang necks or does every Jag-Stang except the prototypes have a reissue Mustang neck?

I have a Reissue Comp 'Stang (OTM obviously, none of that non-matching headstock riff-raff) & it feels like the neck is a little faster than my Jag-Stang but it could just be the overall feel of the guitar.

LIFE

Every Jag-stang I've ever played has had a beefier neck than any Mustang I've played. I'd say their different, but I couldn't tell you how.

Rick

perhaps the jag-stang has the jaguar neck, instead of the mustang one

dinosaur

i think that a jag stang has a mustang neck. cobain prefered it so they made it with that neck

LIFE

I think the Jag-stang has a unique neck. It really feels totally different than any Mustang or Jaguar neck I've played.

Gavin

I never knew that Mustang & jaguar necks were different?

Rick

niether did i up until a thread was made about it month or so back. the japanese jaguar neck is the same 1 5/8" like the american (even if it's been somehow converted to metric). but the japanese mustang is 40mm, which is slightly smaller. like, really slightly. i had a japanese mustang and couldn't tell the difference between it and my jag

Gavin

By my calculations that's 1.275mm difference. 😲

😆

lamp

Yeah, my Jaguar neck is definitely bigger than my Jag-Stang, and Mustang - could tell from the second I picked it up.

Jag-Stang and Mustang are very close though - not sure I could tell any difference.

echelon

the Jag-Stang has quite a unique neck, in that its very very narrow but also has a chunky 'D' type profile. Also it stays narrow even at the 12th fret.

It's based on a vintage 60's mustang neck, often described as a "baseball bat" neck cos its so round it feels like holding a bat.

Def v different to my 9.5" radius Jaguar HH neck - that one is hugely wide, flat and chunky - pretty much like a shortscale strat neck.

paul_

Rick said: perhaps the jag-stang has the jaguar neck, instead of the mustang one

my js neck is nothing like my same-year same-factory jag neck (which feels flatter and wider), but pretty damn close if not the same thing as the jap mustangs i tried. i think it's just the body that makes the neck seem REALLY different; i think it fooks with your judgement, if that makes sense... sitting down at least, the jag-stang comes off your lap in a different way, and is slightly further away from you because it has a thicker body and is never contoured. you'd 'hug' a mustang a little more and the neck would be in a different place... just a theory because the js and mustang necks are really pretty damn close when you just put your hand around them while they're on stands or something.

HOWEVER i tried the new '65 mustang RI today and the neck was decidedly fatter than my js one.

Rick

yeah the '65 reissue neck is 1 4/8", like a jag, instead of 40mm like the normal japanese mustang

byronbrassballs

Rick said: yeah the '65 reissue neck is 1 4/8", like a jag, instead of 40mm like the normal japanese mustang

The '65 RI's are smaller than the '69 at the nut then, right?

Rick

no, larger. sorry, i meant 5/8", not 4/8"

iCEByTes

jag-stang neck is very very confortable

is funny jag-stang is very disconfortable and neck is soberb confortable

is mix of pain and love

echelon

iCEByTes said:
is funny jag-stang is very disconfortable and neck is soberb confortable
is mix of pain and love

why'd you find the jag-stang un comfortable?

My jag-stang is the most comfortable guitar i own, due to a) perfect balace, 😎 small lightweight body and c) high cutaways. And thats before i even mention the amazing thin neck.

Dont care about no countours, never even notice it doesnt have them.

iCEByTes

iCEByTes said:
is funny jag-stang is very disconfortable and neck is soberb confortable
is mix of pain and love

coz i am fat and its dont have countours , its make very uncorfortable to me play sitten

Malik

iCEByTes said:
is funny jag-stang is very disconfortable and neck is soberb confortable
is mix of pain and love

The Jag-Stang isn't designed to be played sitting down, you're meant to rock it over your thigh like Kurt did with his guitars. Hey, this was his designed, remember?

OceanTurquoiseMetallic

Thanks for all of the opinions.

I still swear my J-S neck is chunkier than my RI CompStang

But they're both chunkier than my real '65 Mustang. The '65 Stang has a "B" width neck. What "letter" width would the RI & JS necks be?

echelon

Ocean Turquoise Metallic said: Thanks for all of the opinions.
I still swear my J-S neck is chunkier than my RI CompStang
But they're both chunkier than my real '65 Mustang. The '65 Stang has a "B" width neck. What "letter" width would the RI & JS necks be?

the "feel" of a guitar neck comes down to 4 things:

- scale

- radius

- profile (can be C, D or V)

- width (of fretboard, can be A, B, C)

obviously the RI mustang and the JS have the same scale and radius.

The Jag-Stang neck width is def 'A' - its by far the narrowest neck Fender have ever produced. Hell, at the nut its more narrow than my 22" scale Fender Duo Sonic.

If the strings were even a few more millimetres closer together, the guitar would be pretty much unplayable!

However, the JS has a chunky 'D' profile neck - this means the back of the neck (everything behind the freboard) is literally shaped like the letter D, similar to a les paul.

If your reissue Mustang is anything like its Fender Cyclone cousin, then it probably has a 'C' profile neck, like a strat. This is more smoothy curved and thinner, hence you find it less "chunky".

Anyway, hope this info helps! I'd be interested to hear which neck you find most comfortable?