I mucho love the Jaguar bone stock, that's why I consider it my #1 "off-the-rack" guitar. It's oddly the only guitar I can honestly say I have not seen a bad example of, and can pretty much grab off a rack and get "my" sound out of without any modifications. This includes the CP and the VM Squiers (non HB vintage style ones). I even like the Vibramute. If I had to pick ONE model to stick with for the rest of my life, this would be it, the old, 2 single coil, fancy switching, rocker bridged, floating tremmed, 24" Scale 60's style Jaguar. Plus they always sound amazing through a very saturated overdriven amp and are pretty quiet considering the pickups.
The Jazzmaster on the other hand, I tend to prefer a hotter bridge pickup than most of those have, something around the 8K+ resistance area with Alnico 2 magnets like the one I built as I, oddly, have grown to really like the versatility of the Jazzmaster's bridge pickup as it goes from a twangy "pissed off Telecaster" vibe to a smoother, rounder more P-90 vibe when you roll back the lead volume.
