Sweetwater is blowing out Jaguarillos at $579

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Mon Nov 25, 2013 5:30 pm

After reading this, it looks like it won't be a hard feat to make them fit - just modify the pickguard.

http://www.marksguitars.com/Cool%20Mods.htm

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Mon Nov 25, 2013 7:47 pm

mkt3000 wrote:
Allthumbs wrote:hoping mine will be delivered tomorrow! next order of business will be gutting the electronics. so many pickups to choose from....
I'm thinking AVRI Jag pickups in the neck/middle, and splitting the bridge pickup.

Why don't you get a pickup winder to just rewind the existing pickups to be like Jaguar pickups?

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Mon Nov 25, 2013 9:00 pm

honeyiscool wrote:
mkt3000 wrote:
Allthumbs wrote:hoping mine will be delivered tomorrow! next order of business will be gutting the electronics. so many pickups to choose from....
I'm thinking AVRI Jag pickups in the neck/middle, and splitting the bridge pickup.
Why don't you get a pickup winder to just rewind the existing pickups to be like Jaguar pickups?

Like cutting a nut and setting a neck, that is black magic to me.

MattK · Post by **MattK** » Tue Nov 26, 2013 8:07 am

honeyiscool wrote:Why don't you get a pickup winder to just rewind the existing pickups to be like Jaguar pickups?

... the clawwww ... the CLAWWWW!

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Tue Nov 26, 2013 12:02 pm

The guitar is scheduled to be delivered tomorrow, and the pickguard is already out for delivery

Allthumbs · Post by **Allthumbs** » Wed Nov 27, 2013 4:22 am

i got my jaguarillo today, and i must say that i'm pretty impressed overall. the neck is very close to my Japanese jag and the fit and finish is very nice. the humbucker is a lot better than i thought it would be, but the single coils are pretty bland. the thing i didn't notice until i really looked it over is that the humbucker has two screws on the top and one on the bottom. so swapping that out without drilling a new hole in your pickguard limits your buying choices. the only company i know of the offers a range of 3 hole post pickups (other than fender) is Lace. I'm personally a fan of their humbuckers, so that's not a big deal for me, but it is something to be aware of. there could be other makers that i'm not aware of. i also found a link that shows the jaguarillo gutted. it has a swimming pool route, so if someone makes different pickguards, or you are crafty enough to make you own, you can drop any compliment of pickups in you want. it's actually pretty cool. i'm glad i picked one of these up and think i'm going to have a lot of fun tinkering with it.

here's the link to the innards

http://www.harmonycentral.com/t5/Expert ... p/34632240

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Wed Nov 27, 2013 6:13 pm

UPS says delivered. I can't wait to land in Florida tomorrow and pick it up

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Wed Nov 27, 2013 10:42 pm

mkt3000 wrote:
honeyiscool wrote:
mkt3000 wrote: I'm thinking AVRI Jag pickups in the neck/middle, and splitting the bridge pickup.
Why don't you get a pickup winder to just rewind the existing pickups to be like Jaguar pickups?
Like cutting a nut and setting a neck, that is black magic to me.

THE TREWTH

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Thu Nov 28, 2013 10:58 pm

It's here

BillClay · Post by **BillClay** » Fri Nov 29, 2013 1:54 am

mkt3000 wrote:

Redder is better dude.

MMPicker · Post by **MMPicker** » Fri Nov 29, 2013 7:51 am

I was really interested in this model after it came out, and eventually found one to play in a shop here.
I thought it played well, and sounded good too.
What I didn't like was:
- Perhaps unsurprisingly, the difference in volume between the humbucker and the single coils was large, IMO. To switch from one to the other mid-song I would have to monkey around with the volume controls, a lot. I thought. I don't like to do that.
I never had an HSS guitar. I would think this would be a problem for most HSS guitars, unless they had more than one volume control.
One thing I liked about my old Les Paul was the ability to preset the volumes for when I switched pickups. I think this kind of guitar would benefit from more than one volume control.

-Like the Jaguar, it was overly heavy, IMO. I don't want a guitar that heavy anymore. I wish there was guitar with a configuation like this but in the body of my modded Musicmaster. Which is like the weight of a feather compared to the Jaguar.

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Fri Nov 29, 2013 9:18 pm

That price.

Noisy Cat · Post by **Noisy Cat** » Fri Nov 29, 2013 10:00 pm

MMPicker wrote:Perhaps unsurprisingly, the difference in volume between the humbucker and the single coils was large, IMO.

Adjust the pickups' heights?

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Fri Nov 29, 2013 10:14 pm

Good single coils and and good humbucker will never be balanced in a one volume one tone guitar... well unless the Hummer is a low output mudbucker (useless).
That's why you use a volume pedal or (god forbid) the volume knob on the guitar.

Also: THAT PRICE/DEW IT!!

Buy that guitar and put a vintage neck on it..... It'd be like the best of ALL WORLDS. (if you couldn't tell already, if I'd been stateside I would have bought one of these in a heartbeat.)

MMPicker · Post by **MMPicker** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 8:40 pm

I, for one, actually prefer the 9.5 radius and bigger frets. That's why I I wound up getting my CP Jaguar in the first place. I'd become disatisfied with the neck on my old Musicmaster II, and was affirmatively looking for a guitar with the same scale length but not with the vintage neck specs.

Different strokes...

h8mtv · Post by **h8mtv** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 10:43 pm

Dem's fightin wurdz.

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Sun Dec 01, 2013 1:15 pm

And the people who bought them to flip them have begun to appear on craigslist and facebook groups. Most seem to be going for over $500.

I just lost a little bit of faith in humanity.

George · Post by **George** » Sun Dec 01, 2013 1:26 pm

first dibs

Phil O'Keefe · Post by **Phil O'Keefe** » Mon Dec 02, 2013 2:33 am

Looks like they're all out of red ones. Had I known, I would have bought one - that's an incredible price for that guitar!

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Sun Dec 08, 2013 7:01 pm

Jag pickups arrived, as did new push/pull pots, and a .33 cap. Guess where I'm taking the Jaguarillo when I have free time this week