NGD: Why didn’t anyone tell me how frickin’ amazing the Jaguar is?!?!?

[Norrin Radd]

Build specs:
Neck: ( I added the B&B after I placed the original order. They allowed me to do so as they hadn’t started work on it yet)

Jaguar Neck Custom Build:

Beautiful guitar!

Where did you order the neck?

I didn't see the radius on the spec sheet?

I got the neck from Musikraft! Really like their inlay work - right size/shape AND impeccable workmanship.

The radius is 10". I've found that to be my personal happy place (ever since I played a bunch of Music Mans!).

[Norrin Radd]

Coincidentally, I got my first Mustang, and it was in LPB last month, and got my first Jag (in Shell Pink) yesterday. I always assumed the scale length would be too short on these, but of course I was wrong. But I had no idea the little Jag would be so big and heavy. That is the one thing I don't like about it. Thankfully I play bass, so it's not excessively heavy to me.

Yeah - Jags are not light by any stretch. Makes sense though - there's lots of parts in there - and all those metal control plates... On the flip side, they sound glorious.

[solfege]

Coincidentally, I got my first Mustang, and it was in LPB last month, and got my first Jag (in Shell Pink) yesterday. I always assumed the scale length would be too short on these, but of course I was wrong. But I had no idea the little Jag would be so big and heavy. That is the one thing I don't like about it. Thankfully I play bass, so it's not excessively heavy to me.

Yeah - Jags are not light by any stretch. Makes sense though - there's lots of parts in there - and all those metal control plates... On the flip side, they sound glorious.

My Jag is by far my heaviest guitar (don't currently own a Les Paul, but it feels like my old one). It's ash, which doesn't help, but iirc the body wasn't super heavy by Jag standards. Tons of metal.

[snarf]

good on you for getting the ebony board! Rosewood just ain't as dark as it used to be.

[Norrin Radd]

good on you for getting the ebony board! Rosewood just ain't as dark as it used to be.

Yeah - that was a MAJOR factor in selecting ebony. I've also had it on guitars in the past and have always really liked it, both feel wise and sonically. Seemed a no brainer for this project. I really think the white blocks need that darker background that the ebony offers. Light rosewood & blocks just looks funny to me. YMMV.

[daemon]

Maybe I missed this part, but what's up with the strap locks on the strings at the trem?

[Norrin Radd]

Maybe I missed this part, but what's up with the strap locks on the strings at the trem?

You didn’t miss anything. That started when I was playing my jazzmaster out and I was getting some sympathetic string vibrations behind the bridge that I didn’t want for some particular songs. I just left it there, and it kind of became a thing. And now whenever I build a guitar with an offset vibrato, I just put them on there because.

[daemon]

Haha, that's cool, definitely nowhere near the top of the list of "weird things people do with their guitars".