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Re: NGD: 1966 Fender Jaguar

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That explanation re hot pickup makes sense. I think that's a good score.
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Re: NGD: 1966 Fender Jaguar

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I'll have to measure the impedance in my 64 pups and see what they read.

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Re: NGD: 1966 Fender Jaguar

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looks cool!!!!

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Re: NGD: 1966 Fender Jaguar

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sunburster wrote:
bender wrote: There’s a fair bit of anecdotal evidence of CBS using up old stock in transition models (my 67 bandmaster is a prime example) so it makes sense to me. I found several resto threads of 66 jags with black bottom pickups when I was researching this guitar too.
Could you provide some of those links? I've never seen that before. I might expect a leftover black bottom to sneak in to an early '65, but not on a '66 with a block-n-binding neck - a B&B Jag is not a transition model, only the D&B Jags were. Here's a restoration of an early '66 (still has dots on the bound neck), with the expected grey bottom pickups: http://www.offsetguitars.com/forums/vie ... php?t=5323

Also, if it was a black bottom original to the guitar you'd expect a date stamp on it, as it should be from no earlier than '64 when they were stamping the dates (in '65 they changed to pencil dates).

Lots of mid-late 60s Jags had their bridge pups swapped for pre-CBS Jag pups (or those from other manufacturers) because the mid-late 60s ones sound a bit thin/anaemic.
Well... I have to eat my words. You're bang on.

Neck pickup confirms the greyness:
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And bridge pickup is exactly as described:
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Re: NGD: 1966 Fender Jaguar

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I see it has a mastery bridge now!!!

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Re: NGD: 1966 Fender Jaguar

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KNNZ wrote:I see it has a mastery bridge now!!!
bout time...

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Re: NGD: 1966 Fender Jaguar

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KNNZ wrote:I see it has a mastery bridge now!!!
I was a little slow off the mark- it took me a whole 8 hours.

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Re: NGD: 1966 Fender Jaguar

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bender wrote:
KNNZ wrote:I see it has a mastery bridge now!!!
I was a little slow off the mark- it took me a whole 8 hours.
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Re: NGD: 1966 Fender Jaguar

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ive made myself a smart evening jacket out of mastery hardware

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Re: NGD: 1966 Fender Jaguar

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StrummersOfThunder wrote:ive made myself a smart evening jacket out of mastery hardware
I made myself a belt out of watches, it was a waist of time.
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