Guitar Demo 1962 Fender Jaguar

My first vintage Jaguar. It is an early one, still with the slab fingerboard in Brazilian rosewood. Flat on the bottom and reaching beyond the truss rod adjuster as it should.
1962 is the first year for Jaguars in the Fender catalogue and the early ones had the slab board neck.

Note the flat pole piece pickups which made it through to 1963 and then were changed to be a staggered height arrangement.

It's not mint but in very good condition.
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I had it re-fretted and a new nut installed as the frets were dead and a Staytrem bridge installed but left the arm and collet as it is just perfect as it is.

The grounding on these early ones is a bit odd in that the tremolo cavity doesn't have its own rout for a grounding wire but instead receives a connection by means of a thin wire from control cavity plate to bridge thimble, through the actual bridge and then out down another thin wire onto the shielding plate under the pick guard.
Not ideal.

They changed it to be a ground wire from control cavity routed through the wood and into the tremolo cavity.
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This originally came from Gary Dick at Gary's Classic Guitars in Ohio.

Recorded into a Carr Skylark using attenuator.

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