rolled out the Jaguar, a new top-of-the-line instrument that company literature said offered “faster, more comfortable” playing. The Jag’s offset waist gave its body a look that was very different from a Strat, and it went offroad with a 24-inch scale neck that had a bound rosewood fretboard and pearloid block inlays, a pair of tall single-coil pickups with “sawtooth” shields on both side of their white covers, and an elaborate switching system that occupied three separate chromed plates and gripped a total of eight controls: two knobs, two thumbwheels and four slider switches. Fender was on a roll in 1962, and
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Jun 28, 2022
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