2000 Fender American Vintage '62 Jaguar Yamano, Candy Apple Red w/ Matching Headstock, Case & Tags

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Up for sale, a 2000 Fender American Vintage '62 Jaguar Yamano limited edition model in 100% original condition, complete with the original G&G hardshell case. An extremely rare example of the American Vintage series Jaguar offered exclusively via Fender's distribution deal with Yamano in Japan over 25 years ago, this guitar features a custom color Candy Apple Red gloss nitro lacquer finish and matching headstock. Essentially a precursor to the later “Thin Skin” models (also produced in tiny quantities), this Jaguar’s matching headstock combined with a vintage-spec 7 ¼” radius are the Yamano-exclusive model’s defining features.The production totals for the American Vintage Jaguar models were notably small in the first years of production (Jaguars were first added to the line in 1999), and this instrument captures the feel and tonal properties of a Pre-CBS example with tonewoods comprising an alder body, maple neck, and thick slab rosewood fretboard, yielding an extremely resonant, detailed, and broad natural acoustic tone.Plugged in, this Jag delivers the goods, retaining the original pair of black bobbin single coil pickups with lightly beveled flat-pole alnico magnets. The American Vintage '62 pickups are a bit rounder and fuller in the midrange than later Fender Jag pickup winds, retaining plenty of twang and snap in the top end, with the slightly aggressive chime and sinewy snarl that sets this model apart. Offering plenty of sparkling cut and percussive snap, this Jaguar is quite versatile. Engage the Rhythm Circuit on the guitar's lower body horn for darker, meatier tones, or flip the "strangle" switch in the Lead Circuit for thinner tic-tac sounds. Top it off with copious chrome and a flip-up string mute and you have the model that was Fender's flagship guitar when it was introduced in '62, with every bell and whistle Leo Fender and his team could think to include. This Jaguar weighs 8lbs 5oz, professionally setup here at Mike & Mike's Guitar Bar, where we spe