@xylo I worked on the marketing team for fender for 9 years and the first electric I bought was the Jim Adkins tele, the transparent black one. Mine’s a prototype tho, has block inlays and the f-hole is slightly bigger and a little closer to the base, also no signature. It’s a sweet guitar for sure. Not sure they have any other neck-through teles in the pipeline, or any others w p90s.
I was able to work on the branding for quite a few of the artist models that came out during my time there (my favorite project was the Cobain Jag) and one thing we ALWAYS tried to push the artist to avoid was signatures on the front of the headstock. Next best thing was sig on the back headstock but we always tried to sell them on putting it on the neck plate, as this is something that could easily be swapped out if the customer really didnt want the band/artist affiliation.
The Marr Jag was/is so popular cos it fixed just about everything wrong with a Jaguar. Loads of people buy that that dont know who Marr or the Smiths are.
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just making sure this gets posted:
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That American Professional Jaguar does everything that the Marr does apart from the bare knuckle pickups.
oh nice, havent checked out the am pro series yet.
I’m a sucker for matching headcaps.
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this is a few years old now but it’s good
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Yup, same with the Mascis JM.
Plus Marr has only been using Jags from like Modest Mouse onwards so it’s not necessarily suited to Smiths fanboys
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these are suuuuper ugly guitars!
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the blonde one is nice not really a fan of the burst. different strokes n all.
The Mascis one was like how can someone get their hands on an inexpensive fender that looks a little different and isnt one of the standard five colors that every other model comes in.
Think f holes look terrible and crass on all guitars.
I could get over it there but still.
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Anyway why does ed need a signature guitar? he barely plays anything on it
Yeah only joking, but really it’s pretty minimal and so many effects the tone of the guitar probably doesn’t really matter much.
interesting. big fan, myself.
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Isn’t that just a standard Custom from the 70s?
Nope. Customs had a Wide Range Humbucker at the neck, rather than the PAF-style seen there. They also had a volume and tone control for each pickup and a pickup selector located on the pickguard itself.
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My stepdad’s has a narrower humbucker but you’re right it probably has more switches.
Modding Teles to have a neck humbucker was a common enough practice in the seventies. Keith Richards’ Micawber for example:
Fender didn’t issue a variant like that until the 2000s.
