Fender Jag-Stang CIJ 1998 Sonic Blue - Kurt Cobain Designed - Pro Set-Up! - Crafted in Japan
1997-98 Fender Jag-Stang JSG-65 SBL (Sonic Blue)
Kurt Cobain Designed
Crafted in Japan
SN#: Q036931
Weight: 7lbs 11 oz's
Neck Thickness at 1st Fret: 0.814
Neck Thickness at 12th Fret: 0.899
Nut Width: 1.577
Comes in Original Fender Gig Bag
$$$ Professionally Set-Up and Dialed in for Stage worthy Tone and Performance. (Including Fret Work, Intonation, Truss Rod/Action Adjustment & Reassembly)
Here is the only guitar designed and considered somewhat of a signature model from the late, great Kurt Cobain. Whether you lived through the 90's or are a student of the history of rock, there is no more single more important front-man from the 90's than the lead singer of Nirvana. His style, music and spirit defined the 90's and lives as strong today as ever. Even modern, mega-star musicians, such as Post Malone, constantly pay tribute and cover his songs. These guitars are super sought after and don't come up for sale all that often, especially in this type of condition. You may see them beat up, as they get rocked on pretty hard, as they should be.
The electronics consist of a “vintage-style” single coil at the neck, and a “Special design” (or Dragster as they are know in Japan) humbucker at the bridge. Each pickup has its own 3-position slide on/off phase switch, in addition to the master volume and tone knobs.
This beautifully aged Sonic Blue Jag-Stang has 2 spots of discoloration caused by stickers (Small one on the front/larger one on the back-See pics). There are a handful of very minor dings, but nothing that stands out or is highly visible. Overall, this guitar is in EXCELLENT cosmetic condition. You can see that it very was well taken care of and is just dying to find the right player who will rock out on her as was intended.
Manufacturer Fender
Body Type Solid
Neck Profile Slender C
Scale 24"
Body Alder
Neck Maple
Fretboard Rosewood
Bridge Fender Dynamic Vibrato
Pickup(s) "Vintage style" single coil
"Fender Santa Ana" humbucker
Color Sonic Blue
History of the Jag-Stang
From Wikipedia
The Fender Jag-Stang was an electric guitar produced by Fender and designed by Nirvana guitarist/vocalist Kurt Cobain. It was intended as a hybrid of two Fender electric guitars models: the Jaguar and the Mustang.
Origins
Cobain suggested his idea for an instrument to Fender, resulting in two left-handed prototypes built by former Custom Shop Master Builder Larry L. Brooks, only one of which was played by Cobain himself.
In an interview from January 4, 1994, Cobain talked about designing the Jag-Stang, since it had not yet been produced. He stated to Nardwuar the Human Serviette that he designed it by taking a Polaroid of a Mustang and a Jaguar, cutting them in half and pasting them together.
It was shipped back to Fender for repairs before Cobain brought it with him on the European leg of Nirvana's In Utero tour in 1994, where the guitar was seldom played live.
Cobain sketched a basic design that was sent to Fender, which was later published as part of his Journals in 2002.
Cobain played the Jag-stang live only a few times, however at Nirvana's concert at Tivoli Hall in Ljubljana, Slovenia, he used the Jag-Stang for the entire show.[1] “I’d say he played the Jag-Stang between two and five times on stage,” Bailey says. “There was an early show where he may have used it for a song or two, and later on he may have used it for an entire show.” Bailey says that, to his knowledge, Cobain never recorded with the guitar.
“Kurt tended to record with guitars that he liked to play live, guitars he was real comfortable with,” Bailey says, “and at that point the Jag-Stang wasn’t one of them. I believe the guitar showed up not long before the In Utero tour began, and there wasn’t a lot of recording going on then anyway.”
Even though Fender had built the Jag-Stang to Cobain's specs, Bailey modified it as Cobain found things he wanted adjusted. “Basically everything that came in, including the Jag-Stang, I modified,” Bailey says. “Kurt’s older Jaguar was already pretty heavily modded and he liked it pretty much the way it was. But there were always changes of one kind or another to almost everything” ("Legendary Guitars" by R. Moore 2012).
Design
Cobain's prototype Jag-Stang had a Fender Texas Special pickup at the neck and a DiMarzio H-3 at the bridge. (The H-3 humbucker is not available as an individual product, but the closest sounding replacement pickup DiMarzio hasto it is the DiMarzio DP158 Evolution Neck Pickup.) The production Jag-Stang includes a "vintage style" single coil pickup and one "special design" humbucker, each with its own toggle switch which a player can use to switch from "on", "off", or "out-of-phase" settings. It employs the Mustang's "Dynamic Vibrato" bridge and like both of its predecessors, it has a 24" short scale neck (an exact replica of Cobain's favorite neck, from a Fender Mustang).
Originally produced in the fall of 1995, after Kurt Cobain's death, Fender Japan reissued the Jag-Stang two years after its 2001 cancellation due to popular demand. Fender once again discontinued importing the Jag-Stang from Japan as of May 2006.
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