Wow - 1968 Fender Jaguar Rosewood Prototype....

[zhivago]

This popped up on my IG feed this morning!

This is one of the flat-out coolest and absolutely rarest CBS-era Fenders we have ever seen: a 1968 Jaguar built on a solid Brazilian rosewood body with a first-issue maple fingerboard neck with black block inlay and binding. While the 1968-9 rosewood Telecaster became iconic (and a short-lived production item) there is no record of any other Jaguar (or Jazzmaster) existing in this configuration. Rosewood Telecaster and Stratocaster prototypes followed later in 1968, but today in a time when offset body Fenders are experiencing their greatest popularity in 60 years this is a truly amazing find.

A true CITES-nightmare of a guitar, but ever so cool...must be pretty heavy?

Did anybody get a chance to play at at Retrofret?

[JSett]

Someone's been sitting on that for a long time

[zhivago]

Indeed! There's been lots of crazy Jags popping up lately...have you seen this on TR Crandall's site?

1965 Fender Jaguar in very good condition. This incredible one-of-a-kind blue green sparkle finish Fender is all original, aside from having had the dried out foam replaced on the mute. The guitar has some paint loss on the matching blue green sparkle headstock, and a few small dings on the body. This Jaguar was constructed with an alder body and a maple neck with a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard. The neck has a width of 1 5/8” at the nut, a depth of 0.80” at the first fret, and a depth of 0.96” at the twelfth fret. The guitar has a 24” scale and weighs 9.54” lbs. Fender produced some one-off sparkle finishes, often for trade shows, whose custom paint jobs were contracted out to auto shops. Although a handful of other original sparkle finish Jaguars are known to exist, this is the only example in stunning blue green sparkle. The guitar features a gold sparkle pickguard, whose edges are tinted black, which really sets off the look. The all chrome hardware adds to the hot rod aesthetic, including chrome tele style volume and tone knobs, which are original to the guitar and known to be used only on these sparkle finish Jaguars. This is all topped off with a matching blue green sparkle headstock. It is hard to understate how phenomenally cool this guitar looks in person. The ultimate surf rock stage guitar or Jaguar collection showpiece. Includes the original tremolo arm. It comes with the original orange lined black Fender hardshell case.

$94,999

[interceptör]

Whoa! Stunning stuff!

[JSett]

Indeed! There's been lots of crazy Jags popping up lately...have you seen this on TR Crandall's site?

I couldn't think of anything uglier to waste the best part of $100k on that thing is an eyesore

[zhivago]

The feathering of black colour around bits of the guitar's guard really was the wrong move.

Maybe a mint guard would fix the look...but I don't have $100k to spend to solve that mystery!

[kapepper]

thanks for sharing!!!

seems the rosewood telecaster came out the best in this rw experiment fender did in the late sixties

100k for this custom jagaur, easy no thanks

[CorporateDisguise]

Pretty cool! It must weigh like 15lbs though.

[Highnumbers]

Have to agree with others here on the sparkle Jag, that thing looks horrible with the bursted sparkle guard. Visually a mess.

The Rosewood Jag at Retrofret was much more realistically priced, so no surprise that it sold in a day or two.

[andy_tchp]

For mine it's great that new rarities/oddities are still being unearthed.

[B.T.]

Indeed, tis one useful thing the internet provides us. 30-40 years ago they’d be old fishermen’s tales.

[BoringPostcards]

I’ve seen this rosewood Jag before somewhere. It’s drop dead gorgeous! Probably weighs 13Ibs or so, I’d bet.

[UlricvonCatalyst]

You had me at "Rosewood"....but lost me at black blocks on maple.