Updated Guitar :: Fiesta Red Jag-Stang

johnnykazz

Got rid of all of the other guitars a while back except for the '51 which is for sale, and forgot to do an update on how it sounds. It is an alder body 2000-era reissue Jag-Stang, Fiesta Red. I changed to CTS 500k pots, Sprague Orange Drop .22 cap, and got hand-wound pickups for it. The bridge humb####er is a 1959 Les Paul overwound and the neck pickup is a 1965 Jaguar wound just right. Together they create a really beautiful detailed sound but also very warm and the signal easily breaks up. I love it, here are some photos and a video of me just noodling, it's not my typical style of play but my buddy was wondering how it sounded with just some overdrive and not the Big Muff haha.

Here is a video. Both pickups are active with full tone and volume. It is played through my VHT with some overdrive.

HNB

Looks great!

johnnykazz

HNB said:
Looks great!

Thanks man! I also used the wiring schematic you had posted on here where the neck switch is a pickup selector and the bridge switch is a humb####er coil split. I can get some really vintage sounding Strat sounds out of the split humb####er. I really admire your guitar builds. My next project idea is another Jag-Stang in Shell Pink with a mint green guard and with either Gibson Firebird pups or TV Jones. Excited to get started on it.

Tex-Dot

johnnykazz4l said:
Thanks man! I also used the wiring schematic you had posted on here where the neck switch is a pickup selector and the bridge switch is a humb####er coil split. I can get some really vintage sounding Strat sounds out of the split humb####er. I really admire your guitar builds. My next project idea is another Jag-Stang in Shell Pink with a mint green guard and with either Gibson Firebird pups or TV Jones. Excited to get started on it.

I can't wait to see how that one turns out. Shell pink is a really awesome color if done right.

johnnykazz

Tex-Dot said:
I can't wait to see how that one turns out. Shell pink is a really awesome color if done right.

Thanks man. The final decision is to start working on either the Shell Pink with Mint guard one first which will have Filter'trons and be tuned to Standard as I keep my Fiesta Red one tuned Flat. Or start working on a Jag-Stang that is basically a clone of Neil Young's Old Black. I want to paint that one gold and then do the matte black spray over it and let it naturally relic. That one will have a B5 Bigsby, a non-wax potted ultra microphonic Gibson Firebird bridge pickup for crazy feedback, and a 53-58 era Gibson goldtop P90 neck pickup. Just like Neil's guitar, and that one will be tuned two steps down to D-G-C-F-A-D. I just love the crazy tone's Neil can get out of that thing, and without using his famous Whizzer and by using my own pedals, I can get my own sound out of it without replicating Neil's tone to a T. I think I will start on the Shell Pink Filter'trons first as it is an easier and cheaper build.

ZonicdMattt

johnnykazz4l said:
Thanks man. The final decision is to start working on either the Shell Pink with Mint guard one first which will have Filter'trons and be tuned to Standard as I keep my Fiesta Red one tuned Flat. Or start working on a Jag-Stang that is basically a clone of Neil Young's Old Black. I want to paint that one gold and then do the matte black spray over it and let it naturally relic. That one will have a B5 Bigsby, a non-wax potted ultra microphonic Gibson Firebird bridge pickup for crazy feedback, and a 53-58 era Gibson goldtop P90 neck pickup. Just like Neil's guitar, and that one will be tuned two steps down to D-G-C-F-A-D. I just love the crazy tone's Neil can get out of that thing, and without using his famous Whizzer and by using my own pedals, I can get my own sound out of it without replicating Neil's tone to a T. I think I will start on the Shell Pink Filter'trons first as it is an easier and cheaper build.

That sounds a good pick up set up 😀

Much respect for your wipers logo !