The Fender Kurt Cobain Jaguar Done Right (MJT, Spitfire, Vintage Parts) Custom Replica 

hey man, know we’ve had our differences. But seriously, you crafted a beautiful guitar. Looks incredible!🤟

You definetly have the most accurate one on looks. I prefer the MIM purely because I just like darker sunbursts and I like the pickup spacing on it more so as an actual instrument to play and keep as your own that one would by my pick but you did an amazing job on your replica.

An excellent outcome of the custom version! Well done and awesome sound all together!

I have been waiting for this build for a while now, but man does that jaguar look absolutely beautiful. your jaguar in contrast with the fender kc one, Is much better and accurate, and it sounds really good too! Great video!

This is as spot on as you can get! This is how I remember it looking in pictures reading the book “come as you are” . When I was a kid.

Dude, you really did a great job on this 1. It looks great man. Congrats on getting it together.

Awesome video, so cool to see it all come together, very unique guitar. PS Thanks for the shout-out!

You know it's a good day whenever you upload a video!!!!

the tone on the custom build sounds sooo good and it looks pretty af

This looks really amazing everything looks exactly perfect rock on 🤘

closest one to the real one ive seen on youtube! great job

looks insane nice build🔥

Can’t wait for the sound demo

Wow Awesome video....honestly i choose the Custom build one looks so perfect. @jq & @WastewoodRockers you are awesome, both of you have Jaguar Custom which so close with Kurt Jaguar.🙏

great shirt, even better guitar. good job mate!

The previous owner of Kurt's Fender Jaguar was Martin Jenner. Kurt bought it from a thrift store and only changed the neck. It was a big disappointment for me to know this detail as a diehard fan and as a musician (I have a lot of their equipment). Nirvana's most iconic guitar, it was not designed/modified by Kurt. You did a great job with your replica, congratulations!

Sounds amazing. Definitely seems worth the cost

I hate it how Fender always leaves the yellowish sunburst to the Custom Shop models. I have always enjoyed that colour more than the black-brown-orange burst that you always see. Yours looks the best imo!

Good job man!

I've got both Jags. The 2019 KC Edition, and the same color you have Squire jag, and I agree. I would think you would enjoy the earlier road worn KC Jag. Just for some reason here in the last 4 years Fenders prices have skyrocketed, but the quality has gone down. I've got a Squire Bullitt Mustang HH with a Seymour Duncan in the bridge as always, and love it, but now I gotta try the classic vibe stang, because again your right. Squire's Classic Vibe series has been on point!

Awesome jag build mate! Totally jealous of it!

Good job man

Nice build and nice sound very close to the original

cool build, also love the omori tee

Pretty sweet. I like the pickup spacing. I saw something recently about eddie van halen dipping his pickups in wax. I dont if you mentioned the string compensation for length, one of the other vids mentioned it. Good day.

amazing!!!!!!

Great job it looks much more like Kurt’s then the N O S Jaguar does.Grunge forever!

very cool

Well done. I have questions. I have a Mexican KC model and I wanted to bring it closer to Kurt's actual specs. Mainly the pickup positions - closer to the neck and bridge. What are the measurements for locating the humbuckers? I'm guessing I'd need rout my body a bit as well as get a new pickguard.

I've always been curious to see how high Kurt's Jag pickups were set in relation to the strings. I've tried to find good hi-res pictures and watched videos, but it's really hard to tell how high he set his pickups. I think this is a big part of replicating his tone as well.

Nice video, grunge no dead . 🤟

Méxican sounds incredible, like the studio

was the bridge used on yours and kurts abr or nashville style?

hello, congratulations, your custom is so beautiful. what the utility of the small switch close to the mic toggle switch? this switch is not present on the Mexican model

What electronic components did you use? Like as in pots and caps? For my build I used an Emerson Custom Jaguar Tone Capacitor & Resistor Pack (Mallory 150 Series 0.01uf Film Capacitor 400v, 56K Carbon Comp Resistor) as well as some CTS 1 Meg pots...

Where did you find the bridge? I’ve been searching for the bridge for years and nothing 😢

I wonder what bridhe you are using for it..

Hey jq!! Love the custom build. I’m obsessed with that spitfire pickguard. Makes me wanna buy one for my own. How did the routing go for this custom jag? did u send it to a tech once u had all the electronics down? where’d u get ur electronics?

Nice if I had to pick by sound take custom out of equation it would be the Mexico sounds closest to Kurt's in my opinion one thing on my wishlist the unplugged guitar

hey i got my own custom black distressed jaguar and it wins every time comparing to other non custom jags, so always know guys when in rome, the custom guitars always beat factory built stuff...

How heavy are your jags? mine sits at around 8.9 pounds and sounds insanely muddy

MJT did a great job on the body, how much it cost you the body with that finish and the checking? Do you think something like this could be made to a NOS?

Did mjt build the whole guitar or just the body?

Are there any cheaper accurate alternatives to the body

you could probably cut the headstock down to a strat shape if you wanted to be even more accurate

Hi JQ, what is the background music on 1:42 ? Sounds like "sappy" but its kind of slowed version or some stuff like that

got the made in japan one for christmas 2006. It had 3 "phase" versions on the site i saw. Had to translate the Japanese messages. and get it imported was well worth it. haha

How did you manage to make the bridge radius work with the neck radius? Because Gibson style bridges are usually around a 12” radius

I wonder why Fender bothered to put the original mounting screw holes for the tuners on the NOS but then didn't bother to get the colour right?

Fantastic build, heads up. There's something I don't quite get? According to your pics, the original Kurt Jaguar had a Seymour Duncan bridge pickup. All MIMs have a DiMarzio DP100 (SuperDistortion). You seemed to acknowledge this but I'm under the impression that you went with the same pickups as the MIM ones? However your choice, could you please share with us what is the Seymour Duncan bridge pickup used in Kurt's Jaguar model (same as on the Jag-Stang)? And for that matter, the neck one? Thanks a lot man.

Quick question about the made in mexico jaguar, did it come with the limited edition kurt cobain book or not? also the custom replica looks good!

man I am really sad they have discontinued this model! I've wanted one ever since I started playing, and am hoping I can get it before you can't order them anymore! The prices have shot up like crazy too, saw a used one on kjiji already for 2000 cad, and just to order it brand new is $1860. almost two grand.. Feel like I should just bite the bullet and order one though as about 4 or so years ago I had the opportunity to get a lake placid KC Mustang for 900 bucks and now those go for like 3-4 grand. Be cool if they discontinued this and instead made a more accurate representation though but I highly doubt it with the Jagstang. Don't know why they cant just keep the mustang and jaguar in the line up.. They still make money.

I'm building a KC Jaguar from a squier Jaguar, with compromise lol. I'm currently trying to get pickup spacing as close as possible based off of pictures. It looks like the neck pickup is slanted slightly, is that right? And there is a pick guard screw right near the bottom left corner of the neck pickup mount, I'm wondering if that hole was re-used to secure the pickup mount, maybe that's why it's slanted. I noticed in your picture of your pick guard at 0:50, it looks like that hole wasn't drilled at all. Also any other tips on getting the spacing right would be appreciated. It almost seems to my eyes that your neck pickup is just a hair closer to the neck than Kurt's? I'd like your opinion on that, since that's the one I'm debating on. The bridge pickup seems right if I line the center of the humbucker with the original pickup holes. But if I do that with the neck, the mounting ring basically touches the neck. But there seems to be a slight gap there on Kurt's. Also my bridge will be slightly slanted thanks to the loose tolerances in the mounting holes, I'll put shims in to angle it the correct way.

even if it costs a little extra ive always felt like the best option for cobain guitars is to make ur own, the skystang 1 i built off a squire cv body looks way closer to the original than the signature mustangs

I want to upgrade my Fender Jaguar Kurt Cobain NOS MX with the exact bridge like Kurt’s with the brass saddles, where can I find one or which is it? I also upgraded my jag with 2 push/pull pots for Humbucker splitting, sounds awesome. I use the rhythm circuit as a killswitch for some Tom Morello action. 😂 This is definitely my all rounder and my favorite on stage. 🤘🏼

Hello nice video. Just one thing about the neck. On pictures Cobain’s (real) one looks like a 9.5’’ radius (and with big frets). And since they had to make those neck especially for that signature mode, i guess they went for the real specs

How would you suggest going about with setting up a gotoh roller bridge on a jag? For me I think I'm going to have to file out the grooves a lot.

What kind of pots did you get on your Jaguar?

It's weird, it shouldn't given how samey all of them are in so many ways but the Japanese one has less clarity of individual notes under distortion to my ear.

1:49 what’s the song in the background? Sounds like sappy but deeper

Where you get the saddle bridge?

yours and the 2020 sound best to me. surprised how cheap the japanese one sounds, pick-ups sound weak imo. I honestly dont know which i prefer more, yours or the 2020, the 2020 sounds more 'dynamic' maybe due to yours having older pick-ups? either way, you'd not notice the difference unless you put them side by side so i think you did a great job. if you were to add an EQ and pumped the higher tones a pinch you'd be 99% there (all preference though)

It’d be cool if you got a Fender KC jag neck and just had a luthier re radius it to be 7.25

You know if Kurt’s fender jaguar neck plate is just plain?

How much was the spitfire pickgaurd?

Mexico version sounds the best to me .

I know its a project but surely spending more money than buying one from Fender sort of defeats the object. I bet the '65 neck was a chunk of the cost - then you fit white humbuckers instead of cream. Was it really worth the cost of replicating the red tortoise pick guard? A friend of mine bought the Fender Cobain Jaguar and I'm replicating one from a Squier Jaguar. The paint is identical, the body thickness is the same - its a very straightforward conversion,, and won't cost anywhere near £2k even with brand new Dimarzios. You've done a good job but it could have been more accurate and less expensive......

The Mexican guitar's sound clip was spot on. The custom and the Japanese look better though.

You made your first mistake on the first purchase. You made a right handed guitar. "No compromises."

Dude, you have so muuuch eqiuptment - insane! You should start to write you own stuff, im sure you would make a good song writer! And about the guitars.. I don't know man, they sound all three really good and really close to each other. Is it worth to have 3 jags that are sound almost the same? Because each of them is really expensive to have. I know you are a big nirvana fan obviously, me too. I am a musician my self and kurt was a big inspiration for me in terms of song writing and guitar playing. I would recommend to find your own unique style and craft a guitar that suits you the best. With your own aesthetic's, represent your own identity, and invest your short life time to write you own songs. That is what Kurt did, and other musicians. they all had their influences. Please don't get me wrong, im not judging you, if that is what you want, to copy Kurt 100% and make videos how to sound like him, alright do It. But I heard some of your intro sounds, and they have interesting tones. I think it is a waste to spent all your energy to recreate Kurts artistic sound. Cause it is already been created - by kurt himself. So if you want to honor him, then go and take the risk, create some music that never been created and achieve through this something worthwhile. Just my two cents here ;)

hey jq would you like to buy a guitar body and neck from me? Its a off brand strat and its only $50

I think the mexican sounds better than the other 2 tbh

How to people do this these videos the guitars and amps are so expensive and it seems like they have multiple of them

Damn dude got to say I'd rather custom make a Cobain jaguar then buy one used or brand new

Man that speaker sucks. its sounds like it has a blanket over it.

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