Rerelease of the made in Japan 2020 Fender Jaguar Traditional 60s in LPB with matching headstock?

[Embenny]

7.8lbs is a great weight for a Jaguar.

With all the AVII QC shenanigans, I feel like we are about to enter another era of "Fender Japan being better than Fender USA" mythos.

[JazzLee]

That is a beautiful guitar! Congratulations!

[Iffymiffy]

Very nice indeed! Went to look around for it and it seems that along with this 2020 Jag in LPB there is also a re-release of the 2020 Jazzmaster in OTM with matching headstock. Both are the same price too and there seems to be a heap of stock at all the guitar stores in Japan.

Is it usual for Fender Japan to re-release something like this?

[dave19er]

Very nice indeed! Went to look around for it and it seems that along with this 2020 Jag in LPB there is also a re-release of the 2020 Jazzmaster in OTM with matching headstock. Both are the same price too and there seems to be a heap of stock at all the guitar stores in Japan.

Is it usual for Fender Japan to re-release something like this?

I’m not sure - I haven’t been watching super closely in the past, but I don’t think it’s that common. I DO know I’ve just always missed when Fender releases a LPB w matching headstock in the past, so I really didn’t want to miss this release. I had been really upset I missed the release in 2020 (although I’d blown that years guitar budget on a Broadcaster, so maybe this works out for the best), and thus was really happy I caught this re-release.

I did think it was cool that there was enough stock for me to pick through and find a good weight. And I was really pleased that the shop with the guitar I wanted was willing to ship to the US. A lot of the other ones wouldn’t, so I was looking at one of the proxy shippers.

[dave19er]

7.8lbs is a great weight for a Jaguar.

With all the AVII QC shenanigans, I feel like we are about to enter another era of "Fender Japan being better than Fender USA" mythos.

I was kind of wondering about this myself. I’d been kind of waiting to see if Fender released the AVII Jag in a cool colorway. But between not knowing WHEN that would be, and hoping it would be in a cool color, with features I wanted, and Fender Japan making exactly the guitar I want, where my only potential gripe is the basswood body instead of alder (i think the basswood sounds great, and I love how relatively light it is), and the Fender Japan Jaguar being likely half the cost of the AVII, it kinda seemed a no brainer.

[zenarcade]

7.8lbs is a great weight for a Jaguar.

With all the AVII QC shenanigans, I feel like we are about to enter another era of "Fender Japan being better than Fender USA" mythos.

That is really what i am thinking too. Got a good deal for a Japan 60s HH with the Widerange pickups and am super impressed with the quality. And I was never really that big of a fan of japanese fenders.. Tried 2 AvII Jms and they were really not that good from quality pov and one was also super heavy...

[andy_tchp]

Is it usual for Fender Japan to re-release something like this?

Yes. I don't think they follow the same song and dance around specific reissues/'runs', they just seem to pump out lines of stuff constantly.

[dave19er]

Is it usual for Fender Japan to re-release something like this?

Yes. I don't think they follow the same song and dance around specific reissues/'runs', they just seem to pump out lines of stuff constantly.

That is definitely what it seems like! It's crazy! I've been paying a bit closer attention recently, and they'll release a handful of Strats or Jazz Basses, or whatever, in these limited runs (like, they don't seem to make more than 10 or 20 guitars, by my reckoning), and realized that it really seemed to be focused on a collector culture. My kids and I were talking about it, and they were saying how much it sounded like how Pokemon are released, with "reissues" from Pokemon lines from 10 or 20 years ago. Maybe, with Fender Japan guitars, you gotta catch them all?