I've always fancied a Jaguar but their short scale has always put me off - I'm a six-footer with quite big hands.
I always enjoy listening to Marr talking about guitars and how he gets his sound.
In this vid he explains the extensive road testing he did on his new signature - the wiring config sounds intriguing. Its interesting to know how much time artists put into the development of their sig guitars too.
http://youtu.be/sPoUB9qBdg4
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I've just got a V100 - never played a LP style before & have caught the selector switch once or twice!
Quite some price hike on the standard Jaguar, but that's the normal for signature guitars I guess. The Bare Knuckle custom wound pups will probably be a part of that hike.
I like the changes Marr made. The four way switch with a series option would be cool. But I'm wondering how much like a humbucker that would sound as he has the pickups the same polarity. Bit odd.
The whole thing doesn't really seem that radical - replica pickups and a couple of rewirings. But hey, if you have to be Johnny Marr I guess you'd have to buy one. You could save a lot of money by buying an MIM, a soldering iron and replacing the pickups (even if you had to get Bareknuckles!) .