Brand new MIM Jaguar

tomb65

Hi All,

I have just purchased a brand new Mexican Jaguar, Olympic white, it has the 2 humbuckers, sounds fantastic with these and plays like a dream.

I also have a Telecaster and after changing the pickups to Kinman noiseless ones, the sound was transformed.

I'm really just looking for some advice on setting the Jag up, what tips can you give me to make it the best it can be, ie lowering/raising action, replace any parts etc

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Tom

Alex

Nice! Congrats on the new Jag and welcome!

Fran

From what i hear the MIM Jags are good to go Tom, no need for any upgrades unless you are unhappy. You should be able to get the action low/high by adjusting the tune-o-matic bridge, its all personal preference. Any pics?

Welcome to the forum!

Joey

I've been under a rock for the past 7 years... when did they start making Jags in Mexico?

tomb65

Hi guys,

Thanks for the replies, photo here - http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad41 ... 113_90.jpg

I've had a few fenders and always end up changing something on them ie pickups, tremolo etc.

Been wanting one for years but either went with a strat or a tele but went into my local guitar shop on Saturday and there she was screaming and lifting her skirt up at me 😆

I heard there was problems with Jags but is this just the Jap ones?

Joey, I was the same as you I thought it was Japan who made the reissues.

Tom

JaguarOW

Joey said: I've been under a rock for the past 7 years... when did they start making Jags in Mexico?

the new classic players are MIM

http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0141700309

http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0141710305

ChristianS

Welcome!

I have owned a CIJ for 3-4 years... Except the bridge issue (an issue on ALL Jags for the greater part! and which I 'fixed' by replacing with a Mustang bridge.) - Never had any problems! - In fact there is a rumour that Fender US has had to 'up' it's quality as the MIJ's were superceeding the US models and MIM weren't very far behind.

As to the debate of the electrics... MIAs do have thickier wiring and different pots to the C/MIJ & C/MIM models but as to the over-all sound quality, I personally believe is superficial.

tomb65

Thanks for that ChristianS, I'll try the jag out for a while and see how it goes, what I have noticed though when I use the tremelo my strings go out of tune but could be just down to brand new strings, I'll keep checking