Guitar from the Stratosphere

[Guildedagain]

I can't get past this body shape, I don't want to. I tried, and it only makes it worse.

 

[schoolie]

It's the most copied electric guitar shape ever for a reason I'm obsessed with Jaguars myself.

 

[GGJaguar]

I'm obsessed with Jaguars myself.

Me, too. And Jazzmasters.

 

[lungimsam]

My only 2 Fenders. An elegant, fancy, and exotic shape.

 

[GGJaguar]

I have the matching Jazzmaster.

 

[fronobulax]

I can't get past this body shape, I don't want to. I tried, and it only makes it worse.

Take a walk on the wilder side and get a Pilot bass which also has the asymmetric, double cutaway thing going and has a headstock you won't feel like cropping out of the picture when you post at LTG

 

[Guildedagain]

I'm trying to get into a Jaguar, break the mold so to speak. But the weight. I don't own 9.5lb guitars because I sold them all no matter how great they were. I should build something, but the cost. MJT body, Dimarzios, Mustang neck, lefty Mustang neck on righty body, Sunburst with decent grain, Alder probably, basically Kurt's Fender Jaguar from 1992, but light.

 

[GGJaguar]

But the weight.

Yeah, Jags are heavy. Be patient and shop around. I have one Jag that is under 8 lb. while the others are slightly over 8 lb. It's much easier to find Jazzmasters under 8 lb, though they can run heavy as well.

 

[Guildedagain]

A Jazzmaster would be the lighter choice, but oddly the chunkier guitar has much shorter scale, in dropped D or C even, has devastating bottom end with 10-52 strings, a la Kurt Cobain.

 

[fronobulax]

Kurt's Jaguar from 1992, but light.

Some of us live in a world where the first response to that statement is to ask @The Guilds of Grot is he ever had a 1992 Jaguar even if he is known for Guilds.

I expect you mean Kurt Cobain but I take great delight in pointing out cultural references used by someone as if they are universal but aren't really

 

[Guildedagain]

Cobain/Jaguar universally understood. Nirvana was "the biggest band in the world" at this time. This particular Cobain Jaguar fascination is shared by many, including Fender who actually makes a Kurt Cobain Jaguar.

GG speaks Jag, I figured he'd understand.

 

[GGJaguar]

GG speaks Jag, I figured he'd understand.

 

[fronobulax]

Cobain/Jaguar universally understood. Nirvana was "the biggest band in the world" at this time.

You just proved my point. Not in my world.

I knew Nirvana existed but can't recall whether I ever heard any of their music knowing it was theirs. The biggest band in the world was not enough of a curiosity to get me to find out who the members were. Grunge in general was not as popular in my parts of the East Coast as it was in the Northwest.

But my comment was not intended to start a conversation about Nirvana. It was intended to point out a use of jargon as a separation technique. As written your comments are somewhat incomprehensible to someone who does not know "Kurt" and is still stuck in the car thread and thinks Jag is a car.

I know exactly what you intended so if you think you need to explain it to me you're wrong. But you missed an opportunity to make LTG a nicer place by saying "Kurt" instead of "Kurt Cobain" and "Jag" instead of "Fender Jag".

Maybe I am hypersensitive but if one person seizes an opportunity to make their post more accessible and thus I don't get Reports or questions about what was meant then that is a plus in my book.

 

[Guildedagain]

I went back and regained my opportunity to make LGT a nicer place.

 

[Guildedagain]

Take a walk on the wilder side and get a Pilot bass which also has the asymmetric, double cutaway thing going and has a headstock you won't feel like cropping out of the picture when you post at LTG

I didn't crop out of some shame, it was a visual thing, like an art thing, to accentuate the positive body shape that has me bewitched.

This being posted in Non Guild Gear, the suggestion to get Guild gear non sequitur but just in order not to crop this nearly indescribable headstock had me doubly puzzled ;[]

I'd probably saw it off before something or someone got hurt, nevermind cropping it in a photograph ;[] It should have a guard on it, and I speak from experience with pointy headstocks, lethal to themselves and those around them.



Killer deal on a Pilot bass there btw, tempting, now that the seed has been planted ;[]


Except that this is offset, asymmetric, the Strat/P Bass aren't considered to be and I remain unconvinced about the asymmetric body shapes. A short lived affair with a Jazz Bass didn't change my mind at all.

 

[lungimsam]

If I had a Fender Jaguar I would call it a “Jag-you-uh”, like Orson Welles said the name in “The Most Dangerous Game” old time radio production. Not the usual Amer-English “Jag-why-er” or “Jag-war”. There’s another BritEnglish pronunciation “Jag-wah”. The “wah” is lilted in a way to form a third syllable. Sort of like “Jag-wah-uh”. But I think the Welles pronunciation best expresses the speed and power of the animal. I wonder how the Fender company pronounced it?

 

[Guildedagain]

Fender being Muricans indubitably said it like we do. Actual English is more refined but much less heard.

The was a shop here run by an English gent called Firm Jaguar, just weird enough that you would have to read it "correctly" to get the full effect.

 

[fronobulax]

If I had a Fender Jaguar I would call it a “Jag-you-uh”, like Orson Welles said the name in “The Most Dangerous Game” old time radio production. Not the usual Amer-English “Jag-why-er” or “Jag-war”. There’s another BritEnglish pronunciation “Jag-wah”. The “wah” is lilted in a way to form a third syllable. Sort of like “Jag-wah-uh”. But I think the Welles pronunciation best expresses the speed and power of the animal. I wonder how the Fender company pronounced it?

Nice veer. I think I pronounce the cat, the car and the guitar the same way. "Jag you are".

 

[walrus]

"There’s another BritEnglish pronunciation “Jag-wah”. The “wah” is lilted in a way to form a third syllable."

I guess there's another way - I say "Jag-wah" with no "lilt". Two syllables. Of course, growing up in MA, I also don't pronounce the "r" in "park", or in "car", or in many other words!

walrus

 

[Boneman]

Oh count me in, I love the strat.