Jaguar Special HH MIJ

[Scout]

I have a chance to pick one of these up, thinking if I hate the hummers I could put in jag pickups and a tort pickguard.
Anybody have one? It’s black with black headstock, I like the blacks.

[SAVEStheDAY]

I have the gunmetal blue Jag HH and love it. The Dragster pickups blow, though.

[Embenny]

I have owned two of the black ones and one gunmetal blue. I still have one of each of those colours. Great guitars. The stock pickups are nice enough but I've never been a PAF kind of guy so I swapped them out. I've liked them more than their MIM competitors.

[Scout]

Yeah, the guy wants $500, not much playtime on it. I'm gonna look at it tomorrow and probably get it if it's decent.

[windmill]

They are well made guitars.

Play around with the pickup height before you decide on any changes.

When first released the shielding was very poorly done.

I like mine

[601210]

Yeah, the guy wants $500, not much playtime on it. I'm gonna look at it tomorrow and probably get it if it's decent.

500 is a sick deal imo

[Embenny]

Yeah, the guy wants $500, not much playtime on it. I'm gonna look at it tomorrow and probably get it if it's decent.

500 is a sick deal imo

Seriously, that is underpriced. These MIJs are nicer than the MIM blacktops by a significant margin (I've owned both). These days there are new Squiers that sell for almost that much, I'd jump on that deal unless there was something wrong with it.

[Scout]

Thanks, that’s what I thought, I’m gonna get it.

[Embenny]

The only things I've ever disliked about my HH Specials are that 1) a pickup ring on a pickguard is unnecessary and silly, they could have just cut the guard to accept a humbucker directly like a Blacktop, and 2) The single-ply guard lacks definition on the body.

I've never seen this offered as an option, so it'd probably have to be custom cut, but I've always wanted to get a B/W/B pickguard cut for pickguard-mounted HBs. I feel like that would look great on them.

[Scout]

So,

I just bought the JM Jag on here and it came with a spitfire tort guard and an extra set of pups. I really like tort on black for that body shape or I could swap the w/b/w on the marr with the tort and try the white on the HH. I might really like the low fi humbuckers also, I’m nothing that invested in swapping pups, I’m more inclined to fiddle all the knobs to get a sound I want.

[Scout]

I went and picked it up today, the reason it didn’t sell earlier is that there is a “used” stamped into the back of the headstock, three of the serial number digits have been taken off and there is a body ding on the bottom bout likely from a drop. No fretwear, a beautiful dark fingerboard and everything else original. It’s really nice, I’ll do a setup before I change any components.

[Soggasaurus]

I love mine, it's my #1 gig guitar. It's obviously been heavily modified and I never got a chance to play it with the original pickups, but the neck is fantastic and the matching headstock is super sharp. Congrats on snagging one, I hope it works for you!

[Scout]

Thanks, I will enjoy it for sure! I like your white pick guard, the contrast works but I’m leaning towards a tort guard I have.

[Embenny]

I'm not sure your tort guard will fit. MIJ jags font fit USA pickgusrd templates, a few things are off including the bridge hole placement and I believe the plates don't fit properly either. I have both USA and MIJ jags and the pickguards have not been remotely interchangeable. And that's for jags that have the normal bridge- this is a TOM on top of that.

[Scout]

Thanks, diving into the parts rabbit hole yet again! I’m actually making a pick guard today for another project, if it’s not too far off I may mod it to fit.