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Post subject: Antigua Jaguars and Jazzmasters
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 11:37 pm
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CBS used the Antigua finish on many Fender guitars and basses. However, this finish was very unusual for a Jaguar or a Jazzmaster.

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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 12:54 am
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Hmm, never seen that finish on a jaguar or jazzmaster. What wrong with it? I reckon it look sweet!

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i dont love it-- but i guess if i had to i could live it
the beat up jazzmaster on top looks better to me--


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Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 6:43 pm
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LOVE the Antigua finish...even better on those two guits.


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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:26 am
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So there are guitars prettier than my 65 sunburst Jag after all.

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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:52 am
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guitslinger wrote:
So there are guitars prettier than my 65 sunburst Jag after all.

I don't know about that guitslinger......maybe almost as... or close second.... :wink:
I am still envious.-N 8)


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I'd kill to have an Antigua Burst Jag. However, the ones pictured do not appear to be factory Fender guitars. In fact, I have never seen a factory Antigua Burst offset-waist guitar.

The Jaguars pictured above, if they both came factory with the Antigua finish, should have bound necks with block inlays, since Antigua Burst wasn't offered until the '70s near the end of the Jag's first lifecycle, after the necks were completely changed over to the aforementioned design in '67. One also has white pup covers, and Antigua guitars ALWAYS had black pup covers to compliment the Antigua (actually the first Antigua Burst Jag pictured looks like it has some form of Stratocaster pickups with black covers so ...).

The Jazzmaster is a bit more convincing on first glance, but again it has the incorrect neck in addition to P90s, a missing rhythm circuit, and a hardtail T-O-M bridge.

I'd say everything pictured in this thread was assembled from parts ordered from Warmoth. Warmoth now offers Antigua as a color option on their replacement bodies (and it's so easy to relic guitars anymore, I'd say the Jazzmaster has been treated as such).

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phoenix-caster wrote:
I'd say everything pictured in this thread was assembled from parts ordered from Warmoth. Warmoth now offers Antigua as a color option on their replacement bodies (and it's so easy to relic guitars anymore, I'd say the Jazzmaster has been treated as such).


I concur. They both look as phony as a seven-dollar bill!


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Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 7:41 am
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When I was at the Philly guitar show last year this one dealer had 14 guitars all in Antigua finish with all of them being Fenders except for a Gretsch I believe, the kicker was you had to buy the whole set which was over 20 grand as he would not sell any separate. That is a bit to much Antigua I think for anyone.


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By the wat where did you get those pics??

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Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 7:33 pm
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That Jazzmaster just screams mojo. Is it supposed to not have a floating tremolo?


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Post subject: Re: Antigua Jaguars and Jazzmasters
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:21 pm
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The Jag shown is a genuine Fender Japan item. I've never seen a JM like that, though...


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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 5:30 pm
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I don't think that JM is a Fender; I think it's a custom by someone who is doing "mash ups" of the JM/Jag shape with Gibson features (tune-o-matic bridge, P90s instead of JM pickups, simplified electronics). Seems like a lot of the guys who make "relics" from licensed parts are branching into guitars like that.


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