Highly
distinctive variation on classic model honors modern-era U.K. guitar great
Fender is very proud to introduce the Johnny Marr signature Jaguar guitar,
which puts the inventive ringing sounds and highly distinctive design mods of
one of the U.K.’s greatest modern-era guitarists into a truly unique variation
on a classic Fender guitar model.
Marr
is best known, of course, as the strikingly dynamic and influential anti-hero
guitarist-arranger-all-around-musical-wunderkind
behind Manchester quartet the Smiths, which virtually redefined and ruled U.K.
pop throughout the 1980s. A master of melody, layering and texture, Marr has
always brought his own instantly identifiable ringing, jangling genius to the
proceedings, as he has done in post-Smiths stints with The The, Electronic, the
Pretenders and Johnny Marr and the Healers, and right up to the present with
Modest Mouse, the Cribs and innumerable guest appearances.
The
Johnny Marr signature Jaguar is a fantastically non-standard version of the
model that is as distinctive as the sounds Marr wrings from it, with a wealth
of highly specialized features including:
- Custom-wound Bare Knuckle®
Johnny Marr single-coil neck and bridge pickups.
- Custom-shaped maple neck based on
Marr’s 1965 Jaguar, with vintage-style truss rod, lacquer finish and
Marr’s signature on the front of the headstock.
- Four-position blade-style pickup
switch mounted to the lower-horn chrome plate (bridge, bridge and neck in
parallel, neck, bridge and neck in series).
- Two upper-horn slide switches
(universal bright and pickup switch position four bright).
- Jaguar bridge with Mustang®
saddles, nylon bridge post inserts for improved stability, chrome cover
and vintage-style floating tremolo tailpiece.
- “Taller” tremolo arm with
arm-sleeve nylon insert to prevent arm swing.
Other
premium features include the classic Jaguar 24” scale length, lacquer-finished
alder body, 7.25”-radius rosewood fingerboard with 22 vintage-style frets,
master volume and tone controls, three-ply pickguard (white-black-white) and
chrome hardware. Accessories include a custom case with blue crushed velvet
interior, strap, cable and flatwound strings. Available in Olympic White and
Metallic KO (a distinctive orange tint derived from the heavily faded Candy
Apple Red finish of one of Marr’s favorite ’60s-era Fender models).
"Making
this signature Jaguar has been a four year journey,” said Marr. “I've taken all
the aspects of the guitar in every direction I could, to improve it without
losing the classic features that I liked from the original design. It's been a
labour of love and obsession, and a privilege. I've used it for everything I've
done since I started making it. It's my perfect guitar."
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