Jaguar Pickups... Which ones do you like?

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Jaguar Pickups... Which ones do you like?

Post by vintagedan23 » Fri Dec 12, 2014 1:56 pm

I am slowly putting a real 1965 Fender Jaguar back together and I am looking to see what Jaguar pickups are good and which ones are not so good. Its hard to find any good sound clips or videos on these pickups - if any one has some good sound clips please let me know. I'm not really looking for vintage correct sounding pickups. Just looking for a good sounding (not thin) Jaguar pickup.

I'm looking at the following pickups:

Lollars Jagaur Style Pickups

Curtis Novak JAG V Pickups

Fender Pure Vintage '65 Jagauar Pickups

Seymour Duncan Antiquity II for Jaguar Pickups

Thoughts on any of these?


Anything else out there I that I should be checking into.
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Re: Jaguar Pickups... Which ones do you like?

Post by davewrites » Sun Dec 14, 2014 1:52 am

Buddha pickups = hand-wound nirvana

I have set of Buddha T-style Alnico IIIs, which are awesome and affordable. I'm going to ask Tim to spec me a set of Jag pups in the new year. Admittedly, Jag pups aren't in high demand, but I know he put a set in his personal Jag that he's proud of and he's ready/willing to make more.

You can reach Tim/Buddha several different ways (he's also a member of this forum "buddha0709"). About the easiest way to make contact is through his Reverb.coms storefront.

Definitely worth sending him a message and asking for a quote. I assume he'll be cheaper than all four options you've listed in the OP.
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Re: Jaguar Pickups... Which ones do you like?

Post by bzhyoyo » Wed Dec 17, 2014 5:54 am

bare knuckles pickup of the Johnny Marr jaguar. Sweet !
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Re: Jaguar Pickups... Which ones do you like?

Post by daCod » Wed Dec 17, 2014 7:01 am

i'll second the marr knuckle pups. sound super ace.
will also say that for the price you can't beat a set of the AVRI65 Jag pups. love mine clean. love mine fuzzed. they're all around great for whatever sound i'm after.
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Re: Jaguar Pickups... Which ones do you like?

Post by gutter rock » Fri Jan 16, 2015 12:38 am

I was always a fan of the fender '62 AVRI pups although I know a lot of peeps here would disagree. However, the av65 pups are even better. To me they kind of make a lot of boutique pups obsolete unless you are looking for some kind hotter or different pup. If you want a standard jag sound, the av65 are hard to beat especially for the money.
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Re: Jaguar Pickups... Which ones do you like?

Post by straightblues » Wed Jan 21, 2015 4:26 pm

Don Mare just wound me a set of Jaguar pickups that are wonderful. He is more known for Tele pickups, but he knows vintage Fender tones.
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