1995 Fender JG98B Jaguar, Order, Blocks & Binding, DiMarzio DP155, Lake Placid Blue

1995 Fender Japan JG93B Jaguar Order in Lake Placid Blue (LPB). One of the rarest JG66 models, this seems to have been a shop order commissioned by Taniguchi Gakki in May, 1995. It is the earliest example of a bound and block inlay Fender Japan Jaguar, and only known such order from the FujiGen era prior to the production model JG66B released in 2004.

Manufactured at the FujiGen factory in Japan: "T" serial prefix, thin "Made in Japan" stamp, order number K-664.

Note: The JG has been professionally refretted with StewMac “Wide/High” fretwire. The truss rod is effectively maxed out, with ≤1/64" more relief than is ideal. It is set up with low action and plays well as-is.

Backstory
Whew-weee…I have procrastinated getting this fixed and listed for about three years. When imported, it became clear someone did a horrendous partial refret on the instrument with mismatched fretwire. Naturally for such a job, a liberal application of epoxy was used to glue in the new frets and even add more glue to the original frets for good measure.

So as one might expect, when the frets were removed during the recent refret, parts of the rosewood fretboard chipped out. To save it, wider fret wire was used and the chips were filled with rosewood dust to minimize the appearance of the imperfections. You can barely tell now, as shown in the photos.

It was also obviously modded in someone's peak grunge era, with a hacked-in DiMarzio humbucker in the bridge and attempted tone pot/strangle switch mods (neither work). Volume works, pickup selectors work, and the rhythm circuit—surprisingly still connected—is dirty but functional.

All that being said, it's a crazy ripper with the slimmest neck profile of the 60+ JGs I've imported.

I've documented and gotten this rare, now blasphemous instrument in playing condition—it's time for me to pass this on to the next owner…

Set up with D'Addario 10-46 strings, playing well up and down the neck with proper intonation (given the earlier caveat).

Includes original Fender gig bag and booklet.