Okay, here she is when she first came into my life all messed up and not working correctly. Tremolo bar wouldn't fit here in this first pic. The trem are was too big and had a weird extreme upward bend more so than the common bend. Bridge was messed up, and the pickup was broken. Not to mention the case was broken too apparently. The paint was slightly off centered as well. Not a major biggie with the paint, but just kinda stood out.
Very soon after, I replaced the tortoise shell pickguard with my own Spitfire tort guard. A much more vintage looking fiery style.
I had so many issues and problems with this one that I had to send it into Fender for them to pretty much completely re-build my guitar in the custom shop. So Now I pretty much have a Special Edition 1st of 46 Custom Shop AV65 Jag. Pretty cool. I got the whole excellent VIP custom shop treatment, personal attention and conversations with the vice president of Fender, and a lot of goodies from their mistake. To christen the new Jaguar, I wanted to go with a brighter red and fiery new Spitfire tort guard. So I ditched the old one and in with the new. Here's the new version. Instantly I installed the new red tort guard. Loved it. Everything about this guitar was a thousand times better. Everything was perfect.
After only a week or so, I decided that I wanted to go with an even brighter red tortoise shell guard with less dark spots. So I made myself a new Spitfire tort guard, finally achieving exactly what I have been dreaming of, my whole life. Now its perfect! A dream come true.
Share your story and please post a lot of pics. I eagerly look forward to your personal experience and picture review.
Great photos!
I really need a pickguard like that for my 63' jazzmaster. I have the orginal pickguard for it and it's very nice, but it doesn't fit anymore. I got the original pickguard from a guy who was fixing an amp for me and i saw this sweet vintage red tort pickguard hanging in his workshop. I asked him about the pickguard and i told him about my jazzmaster and after a little talk he realized that my jazzmaster was his old guitar(Iceland is a small country). He told me that when he got the guitar, it had been in it's case in part's for over fifteen years and the original pickguard had shrinked over the year's. He spent alot of time to try to make it fit when he was putting it back together. But it was just too small, so he ordered a new pickguard for it. What a shame. So the guitar has had an ugly brown pickguard for too many years. My jazzmaster has a very nice aged white color and a red tort would be a nice match. Sorry about the long bla bla bla story. But that jag just look's like a mint condition real vintage jag, congrats 
. Where can i get a pickguard like this one?
. I thought wrong I guess. There's still hope though.
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