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VINTAGE BENCH TEST

KEY FEATURES
1966 FENDER JAGUAR
PRICE £7,995
DESCRIPTION Solidbody electric guitar, made in the USA
BUILD Solid alder body, bolt-on maple neck with bound
rosewood veneer fingerboard, pearl dot markers
HARDWARE Offset vibrato bridge, F-stamped tuners
ELECTRONICS 2x single-coil pickups, master volume and tone,
individual pickup-selector switches, mid/bass cut ‘strangle’ switch,
independent switchable rhythm circuit with volume and tone
SCALE LENGTH 609 mm/24”
NECK WIDTH 41.7mm at nut, 51.4mm at 12th fret
NECK DEPTH 22.6mm at first fret, 22.2mm at 12th fret
STRING SPACING 35mm at nut, 54.9mm at bridge
WEIGHT 3.7kg/8.1lb
FINISH Firemist Gold
CONTACT atbguitars.com

There’s a distinction to the frets too, with the
Jazzmaster having been refretted with taller and
wider wire. A decent job was made of it, with no
damage to the playing surface, though you can feel
that the ’board edges have a bit more rollover as a
result of the bevelling.
In contrast, the Jaguar’s factory-fitted frets are low
and flat, and about 0.2mm narrower. The binding
nibs have survived (just about) and somebody has
made a valiant effort to file a crown into the frets
and bring them to a high polish.
Although they look different, the controls on both
guitars are more or less the same. Individual pickup
switches on the Jaguar replace the Jazzmaster’s more
conventional three-way toggle pickup selector, while
both have a rhythm circuit with low-profile volume
and tone controls and a small activation switch.

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