Johnny Marr is best known as the strikingly dynamicguitarist-arranger-songwriter behind the Smiths, who redefined and ruled UK popin the 1980s. A master of melody, layering, and texture, Marr has brought hisown instantly identifiable genius to the proceedings ever since, in stints withThe Pretenders, Modest Mouse, and the Cribs - to say nothing of his solo careerand innumerable guest appearances. The Fender Johnny Marr Jaguar 6-StringRight-Handed Electric Guitar is a fantastically non-standard model that is asdistinctive as the sounds he wrings from it.
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Rather than traditional slide switches, Marr’s signature Jaguar has a specialfour-way blade pickup switch on the lower horn, delivering the bridge pickupalone, the bridge and neck pickups in parallel, the neck pickup alone, and theneck and bridge pickups in series. The Johnny Marr Jaguar features specialnylon bridge-post inserts for improved bridge stability, and a ‘taller’ tremoloarm with a nylon-sleeve insert to keep it from swinging loose. Nitrocelluloselacquer is one of the great original-era Fender electric guitar finishes and isstill used today on select instruments. Thin, porous, and delicate, it’s apremium finish prized for sonic qualities that let body woods breathe withtheir true tonal character, and for an appearance that ages and wears in adistinctive way that appeals to many players. In an especially authentic touch,the neck on this signature model has a comfortably broken-in custom profile(the shape of the neck in cross-section) based directly on Marr’s 1965 Jaguar.For a specially voiced tone worthy of such an inventive and versatileguitarist, this Jaguar is built with ‘Bare Knuckle’ Johnny Marr single-coilcustom-wound neck and bridge pickups. In an extra-special design element, theupper horn of the Johnny Marr Jaguar features two slide switches - a‘universal’ bright switch that kicks everything up a notch or two, and aseparate bright switch that only affects the ‘series’ pickup switch position.