Given the natural flow of things guitar, the longer the Jag-Stang stays discontinued, the more and more it will become a collectors item. Plus they don't sell too well either from what I've noticed.
The Jag-Stang, in the grand scheme, also did not sell too well....here's the reasons I can think of..
- The common belief that various attributes suck (trem, pickups, body wood, neck shape...etc). There's so much out there about "Weak pickups" and the trem not staying in tune it's beyond ridiculous.
- The fact that it is strongly associated with Kurt Cobain. It's considered "his guitar" to many people, despite not having his signature on it. It's like playing an Eric Clapton Stratocaster for originals, that tends to bother some people. Also, not everyone likes Nirvana or their music, so there goes a lot of other potential buyers.
- The stigma attached to being based off a student guitar. Many of the older people out there think of the Mustang as a STUDENT guitar, and the Jag-Stang is at it's most basic a Mustang with a humbucker, no more, no less. You don't see too many people claiming a JC Penny bought Harmony Beginner's Electric guitar as a great "tone machine" now do you?
- THe Price. When they came out, they were a "christmas guitar",. At $699, what teenager is going to be able to afford the guitar off the bat. The whole idea was to get parents to buy it, and throw in that whole "Kurt Cobain Killed Himself" stigma the media threw out, and you are looking at poor sales because of that retarded "my kid might kill himself too if he copies Kurt" thing.
As for me, it's one of the better guitars to come out in the past decade. I like all the pickup selections and sounds from it stock or custom, and I love the trem system, and the fast skinny neck, and it always sounds good and stays in tune, so it became half my main axes (I have 2 I consider my main, the Jaguar being the other).
