As unusual as the artist himself, the Fender Johnny Marr Jaguar is based on Marr’s own extremely unique Jaguar from 1965. Featuring two Bare Knuckle single-coil pickups (custom-wound and voiced to Johnny’s specifications), four-way switching, nylon sleeve inserts for the bridge post, extra-tall tremolo arm, augmented circuitry featuring two “bright” slide switches, and a custom neck profile for a comfortable, broken-in feel, there’s no other Jag that feels at-once so progressive and so familiar.
Founded by Leo Fender in 1938 as Fender’s Radio Service, what is now the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation began making electric guitars and amplifiers in 1945. The rest, as they say, is history. Creator of the world’s first mass-produced, and by far most popular, solid-bodied electric, Fender is now the world’s leading guitar manufacturer.
Developed hand-in-hand with some of the biggest artists of yesterday and today, the Fender Artist Series is a collaborative line of signature models incorporating hand-selected tonewoods and custom appointments and specs, voiced to specific tones and playing styles by our master builders and the artists themselves. Stratocasters, Telecasters, Jaguars, Jazzmasters, and Jazz, Precision, and Jaguar basses take on new life with the help of some of music’s most revered icons.