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NGD: From a parallel universe.
I went out today, to check out a delay pedal but came back with a guitar.
Went to one of my local guitar shops, run by a friend.
A couple of months ago, he'd got a guitar in from Fender, for a customer.
But the customer had reneged on the deal and performed a disappearing act.
The guitar in question was a Fender 2018 Limited Edition Jaguar-Strat, from Fender's Parallel Universe range.
Back then, whilst my friend was still waiting in vain, for the errant customer, I'd had a quick look at this strange beast.
Even had a quick strum and was inpressed with how much better the guitar looked in person.
But with all it's Jaguar appointments, I'd convinced myself it was short scale (24 inch).
But it is actually a full 25.5 inch, strat length scale.
The guitar had been in the back of my mind since then and I was thinking of getting another guitar that could get a great surf music sound.
But I definitely hadn't gone to try out this rather unusual Fender.
But seeing the beast on the shop wall got me talking about it, to my mate.
Then, out of the blue, he offers me it at an incredibly low price.
Far lower than any internet prices.
So I had to give it another go.
But rather than put it through the obvious Fender combo, we put it through one of those 1 watt, Blackstar valve amps.
Sounded nice, clean with reverb and great, all crunched up.
So after a quick word with the Mrs, who gave the go ahead, I brought it home.
Plugged it into my Fender Princeton and got some sublime tones.
Being all un-prepared and unresearched, I hadn't realised that the 2 switches on the upper horn, gave alternate pickup selections, to the conventional 5-way switch.
In postion 3 (on the 5-way), one switch gives all 3 pickups together, for a lovely, strong sound.
And the other gives the bridge and neck pickup, without the middle, to get that very cool, 2 pickup, Jaguar sound.
It's nothing more than the S1 switching does on a Strat but with these Jag pickups, it really gets sounds I've not had before.
Jaguar pickups, to the uninitiated, are brighter than a Strat's but in a very solid way.
Not screetchy or ear splitting.
I thought my Suhr sounded great for surf and ambient sounds but this Jag-Strat is something else.
The guitar came nicely set up, though I may tweak the action a fraction.
Now I know that some folk are going to hate this guitar.
Mostly for it's looks, I'd imagine.
The only other Parallel Universe model I have played, was a Tele-Jazzmaster.
Which I liked the look of but didn't take to in most other respects.
But this Jag-Strat really does look so much better up close, than it does in photos.
And as a musical instrument, in my opinion, it is such a good idea.
It feels really nice to play and tonally is bloody brilliant.
I'm not a massive fan of the Jag/JM trem system and have had very mixed results, with the various Jags and JM's I have owned.
This one is probably the smoothest and least clunky I have played.
I'm sure there are those that will say/think that this model is a botched compromise, from a company desperate to turn out something new.
I really don't agree and now I've got one at home, through my own gear, I'm doubly sure that this Jag-Strat is a a very fine, versatile and to some extent, unique guitar.
So there.
Went to one of my local guitar shops, run by a friend.
A couple of months ago, he'd got a guitar in from Fender, for a customer.
But the customer had reneged on the deal and performed a disappearing act.
The guitar in question was a Fender 2018 Limited Edition Jaguar-Strat, from Fender's Parallel Universe range.
Back then, whilst my friend was still waiting in vain, for the errant customer, I'd had a quick look at this strange beast.
Even had a quick strum and was inpressed with how much better the guitar looked in person.
But with all it's Jaguar appointments, I'd convinced myself it was short scale (24 inch).
But it is actually a full 25.5 inch, strat length scale.
The guitar had been in the back of my mind since then and I was thinking of getting another guitar that could get a great surf music sound.
But I definitely hadn't gone to try out this rather unusual Fender.
But seeing the beast on the shop wall got me talking about it, to my mate.
Then, out of the blue, he offers me it at an incredibly low price.
Far lower than any internet prices.
So I had to give it another go.
But rather than put it through the obvious Fender combo, we put it through one of those 1 watt, Blackstar valve amps.
Sounded nice, clean with reverb and great, all crunched up.
So after a quick word with the Mrs, who gave the go ahead, I brought it home.
Plugged it into my Fender Princeton and got some sublime tones.
Being all un-prepared and unresearched, I hadn't realised that the 2 switches on the upper horn, gave alternate pickup selections, to the conventional 5-way switch.
In postion 3 (on the 5-way), one switch gives all 3 pickups together, for a lovely, strong sound.
And the other gives the bridge and neck pickup, without the middle, to get that very cool, 2 pickup, Jaguar sound.
It's nothing more than the S1 switching does on a Strat but with these Jag pickups, it really gets sounds I've not had before.
Jaguar pickups, to the uninitiated, are brighter than a Strat's but in a very solid way.
Not screetchy or ear splitting.
I thought my Suhr sounded great for surf and ambient sounds but this Jag-Strat is something else.
The guitar came nicely set up, though I may tweak the action a fraction.
Now I know that some folk are going to hate this guitar.
Mostly for it's looks, I'd imagine.
The only other Parallel Universe model I have played, was a Tele-Jazzmaster.
Which I liked the look of but didn't take to in most other respects.
But this Jag-Strat really does look so much better up close, than it does in photos.
And as a musical instrument, in my opinion, it is such a good idea.
It feels really nice to play and tonally is bloody brilliant.
I'm not a massive fan of the Jag/JM trem system and have had very mixed results, with the various Jags and JM's I have owned.
This one is probably the smoothest and least clunky I have played.
I'm sure there are those that will say/think that this model is a botched compromise, from a company desperate to turn out something new.
I really don't agree and now I've got one at home, through my own gear, I'm doubly sure that this Jag-Strat is a a very fine, versatile and to some extent, unique guitar.
So there.
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Though it would be a shame to not have the occasional waggle.
Very long muddled haiku
Lovely guitar though
It really should not work, but it does!
I'm really into (trying) to play surf at the moment and can imagine the sounds you get from that.