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I've been a Jaguar player for a number of years and
recently picked up a MIA Jazzmaster. Both guitars are
pretty flexible as far as tone and sounds. IMO, the
JM is a little "darker" and the Jaguar a little
"brighter." They are definitely two different beast
each with tonal qualities and sounds of their own. It
just depends on which scale you were more comfortable
with (I'm pretty comfortable with the scales of both)
and with the looks and tones of each. They're both
fine guitars in my opinion. I replaced the stock
bridges of my Jag and JM with mustang bridges. And as
far as the gloss neck, I took one of those 3M green
pads to JM neck and it took that sticky nitro off in
no time ANd if it were me, I'd get one now and the
other later!
Hope this helps...
~Mike
--- Dana and Roberta Vincent <>
wrote:
> Having owned both guitars (MIJ versions), I would
> just add that the tone of
> the Jazzmaster was very, very nice (with
> Seymour-Duncans), but not nearly as
> flexible as the Jaguar. I did prefer the longer
> Jazzmaster scale (being a
> Strat-Nazi...oops, sorry!) to the shorter Jaguar (my
> marginal fingering
> skills got even worse in the higher registers), but
> the appearance of the
> Jaguar was certainly more impressive. I would say
> go with the guitar that
> you feel most comfortable in playing, and has the
> tone you are after. The
> bridge arrangement is definitely the weak point of
> both instruments; still,
> a little of regular attention to alignment will
> overcome that limitation.
> Hope some of this helps!
>
> Best regards, Dana Vincent
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ohsyrus" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 11:10 AM
> Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Advice needed
>
>
> Played one of the MIA Jaguar reissues the other day.
> Been thinking
> about it ever since. One of the things I really
> liked about it was
> the shorter scale. I also really liked the tone. I
> thought the neck
> had an overly glossy finish, and I prefer satin,
> however, thats a
> niggle. One of the things I didn't like about it was
> the mute, and
> another was the bridge, which seemed like some kind
> of frankenstein
> contraption. Other than that, I loved the way it
> played and sounded.
>
> So, I'm thinking about getting one, but I wonder,
> I've never played
> one of the Jazzmaster RI, and I am not sure whether
> I would prefer
> the sound of the Jazzmaster to the Jaguar. I have
> never run across
> one in the local music stores. I know alot of you
> guys are really
> familiar with the differences in playablility and
> tonality, and I
> would like to know what you think. If you were going
> to get a MIA RI,
> and you could only pick one, which would you get,
> and why?
>
> Thanx!
>
>
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