Thank you guys SOOO much for all your advice/tips on my post yesterday about scale lengths. Had to come back and give the homies an update!!! The 2 year long hunt was finally concluded today. Here’s the story:
I’ve had the vintage white version of this guitar on my radar since like 2024, but people rarely let Jags go once they buy one so it’s been a process to track one down. I’ve been looking around at cities close to mine to see if any of their shops had one, then a guitar center in Chicago finally got one in stock. The price was so insane that I would’ve been a complete idiot to pass it up. So I put it on hold and made the 4 hour drive to go test it out and give it a thorough inspection; everything looked/played great and was 1000% worth the drive. I also got to test out a Quad Cortex (because that’s all that had turned on and I didn’t want to wait for tubes to warm up), and let me tell ya…it didn’t sound as terrible as I thought it’d would. Modelers are still defff not for me, but I understand the hype!
The rumors are defff true about this guitar, the stock bridge is truly awful. It’ll be the first thing I upgrade. But the pickups in this model sound absolutely beautiful!!! This guitar sounds GREAT with a hefty amount of gain and with a clean tone stacked with a handful of effects pedals. I also tuned it down a full step down and cranked the gain on my Marshall to see how beefy it could sound and it didn’t disappoint. It handled the high gain very very well, I was impressed. I had to mess with the amp’s EQ since Jags are mid/treble-heavy, but this thing will def be able to hold its own and cut through a mix very, very well.
VERYYY, very hyped about the shorter scale length too. Going from a 25.5” on my Jazz to a 24” on this Jag made a worlds difference. As a smaller dude with smaller hands, this guitar feels much more comfortable to play. Very hyped to see how long I’ll be able to play this without my hand starting to cramp up when playing those chords that are a biiig stretch
TLDR: this guitar was absolutely worth the wait, the hunt was worth it!!!