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So here's a lovely Blacktop Jag, a stonking little guitar to start with and modified as follows:
- Neck pickup: Gibson 490R with Alnico 4 magnet swap (DC resistance went from 7.81 to 8.11)
- Bridge pickup: DiMarzio PAF 36th Anniversary
- Controls: 2 on/off push switches added to split each pickup
This Blizzard Pearl limited edition has a bound neck from the leftover Cobain Jaguar stock. It plays superbly well and sounds the part but I found the original pickups a bit sterile and more suited to heavy rock. With the new pickups it absolutely roars, take fuzz superbly and has much more personality. Cleans and crunches are immensely better and the neck Alnico 4 is clearer than an Alnico 2 unit and extremely well balanced.
The split sounds are pretty good too, nowhere near a real Jag but glassy enough to clearly fall into Fender territory.
Next change: a set of 12s and down to D.
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However, I'm not sure where a hard tail jag would fit? I always think of jags with trems
I guess it's just a very comfortable (physically) sort of SG territory machine?
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
http://i1034.photobucket.com/albums/a428/grungebob/jag004.jpg
And pre mod with the Cobain jaghttp://i1034.photobucket.com/albums/a428/grungebob/jaguars009.jpg
Identical necks on these two @grungebob
I didn't realise magnets affected the DC resistance >:D<