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Fender Announces Kurt Cobain Jaguar Guitar

Fender craftsmen have reproduced Cobain’s battle-hardened left-handed Jaguar down to the last unusual detail, including its worn finish, dual humbucking pickups and unique electronics and controls.


Scottsdale, AZ (Sept. 6, 2011) — Fender is very proud to introduce one of the most distinctive signature models in its history, the Kurt Cobain Jaguar guitar, meticulously modeled on the battered 1965 Jaguar that the Nirvana singer, guitarist and songwriter wielded during the heady and meteoric early-’90s era when the band burst out of the Pacific Northwest, ruled rock and led a musically stunning and culturally subversive movement.

Fender craftsmen have reproduced Cobain’s battle-hardened left-handed Jaguar down to the last unusual detail, including its worn finish, dual humbucking pickups and unique electronics and controls (which were already in place when Kurt acquired the guitar in summer 1991).

Unique features include an alder body with Road Worn aged finish and hardware treatment, bound fretboard with pearloid dot markers, Stratocaster headstock shape with 1950s-style “spaghetti” logo under the finish, DiMarzio humbucking DP103 PAF 36th Anniversary neck pickup and DP100 Super Distortion bridge pickup, triple knurled “chrome-dome” knob configuration (volume-volume-tone), three-position toggle switch, black chrome Adjusto-Matic bridge and Gotoh sealed tuners. The guitar will be available in right- and left-handed versions.

Accessories include a black textured vinyl hard-shell case and an exclusive Fender Kurt Cobain book featuring extensive photos and commentary by Charles Peterson and an insightful interview with Nirvana guitar tech Earnie Bailey.

Nirvana photos courtesy Charles Peterson, © 2011.

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Jason
on 09/09/2011 		Why don't they just put out the Jagstang again? Either way, I'm sure they have to pay something to his estate. I owned a Sonic Blue Lefty Jagstang and really didn't like it. It felt like an incomplete guitar in that Kurt died before all the R&D that goes into a new design wasn't finished. I sold it to someone in Australia for much more than I paid for it - those guitars are rapidly becoming very collectible and rare (the lefty models in Sonic Blue). I like it that it is available lefty, as we get so few choices. I will go check it out if I come across one. I hope the build quality is better than the Jagstang I owned.
'58 Explorer
on 09/08/2011 		Boring! Alder bodies "hollow out" the sound on any Fender product I have ever played. What would this guitar be like and sound like if it was Swamp Ash?
Stephen
on 09/08/2011 		We definitely need a video review/soundtest for this guitar!
Pete
on 09/08/2011 		Always good to see a lefty signature model, especially when the player in question was a lefty. Now about those Iommi SG's...
Jim
on 09/08/2011 		I had Kurt's left handed Red Jag,the same one in the photo on the website that showcases his guitars it is the poloroid of the red jag leaning against the wall. Never was interested in his music. The guitar had been smashed and left to a Seattle repairman and sold it to me a year after he died. I wonder how much Courtney will make from this?
I gave it away.
Brandt Hardin
on 09/07/2011 		Kurt changed my life with his insightful and surreal music and lyrics. I only wished he could have stuck around to make more to listen to for future generations. I was compelled to compose a portrait of him In Memoriam recently on the anniversary of his death on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/ 04/in-memoriam-kurt-cobain-and-lane-stal ey.html Drop in and tell me your memories of his music and how it’s affected you.
Jay
on 09/07/2011 		Interesting that Fender is ADDING a left handed model rather than the norm of cutting them out of production. Fender needs to step up for their left handed patron and bring back more models and options...
Teen Spirit
on 09/07/2011 		Kurt used strats and Univox, Hagstrom anything cheap really. He did design the "Jag-stang" and Fender put it out for him. Any fender with a humbucker will do grunge.
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on 09/07/2011 		The Jagstang was a design that Kurt came up with that he wanted Fender to build for him. The guitar that he used for most of Nirvana's stuff is the Jaguar that this one is based on.
Corner 3
on 09/06/2011 		@Rob English - believe it or not, Kurt Cobain had more than one guitar.



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