1966 Fender® Jaguar®

$9,500.00

  • Year: 1966
  • Manufacturer: Fender®
  • Model: Jaguar®
  • Case: Original Hard
  • Color: Teal Green Metallic
  • Condition: Excellent
  • Description: This incredibly rare "Teal Green Metallic" Jaguar® weighs 8.70 lbs. with a nut width of just under 1 11/16 inches and a scale length of 24 inches. Solid alder body, one-piece maple neck with a medium profile, and bound veneer rosewood fretboard with 22 frets and inlaid pearl dot position markers. Headstock with matching "Teal Green Metallic" finish and decal with "Fender®" logo in gold with black trim, "Jaguar®" in black in bold letters beside it, and four patent numbers in black below it. With "Offset Contour Body" at the ball end of the headstock. Single "butterfly" string tree with nylon spacer. Individual Fender® "F" Tuners with octagonal metal buttons. "F-Series" neckplate with the serial number ("158626") stamped between the top two screws. There is no date stamped on the end of the neck - but because of the binding and the "dot" inlays, it can only be somewhere between late '65 and mid '66. Two white oblong Strat-like pickups with notched metal side plates and balanced outputs of 5.41k and 5.25k. Three-layer (white/black/white) plastic pickguard. Two controls (one volume, one tone) and jack socket on lower metal plate adjoining pickguard on treble side, selector switch and two roller controls (one volume, one tone) on upper metal plate adjoining pickguard on bass side, and three slide switches on metal plate inset into the pickguard on the treble side. Black plastic Jaguar® knobs. The pots are dated: "304 6547" and "304 6617" (Stackpole, November 1965 and April 1966). Jazzmaster-type floating tremolo and bridge with adjustable mute. Complete with the original tremolo arm and bridge cover. A truly spectacular example in amazing condition, totally original and with just a few small surface chips - one on the edge of the treble-horn; one on the lower treble-edge; one on the upper bass-edge; two on the face of the guitar, and two tiny surface chips on the lower edge. There is absolutely no belt-buckle wear whatsoever and the color is really the best example we have ever seen. Some light playing wear to the varnish on the back of the neck and some light wear to the original frets are the only other things that need to be mentioned. Housed in its original Fender® black hardshell case with dark orange plush lining (9.00). This is the color that will be missing from most collections… (00763)