Fender Kurt Cobain Jag-Stang, Rosewood Fingerboard, Sonic Blue

Designed By Kurt

Whilst Kurt Cobain became associated with a variety of guitars during his time in Nirvana, including the Fender Jaguar and Mustang, the Jag-Stang was the guitar that Cobain had the most affinity for. Before, Cobain liked certain aspects of some guitars but could never find a guitar with everything he was looking for. According to him, the Jag-Stang was the guitar that came closest to ticking all the boxes.

As you can tell by the name, the Jag-Stang is a hybrid of the Jaguar and Mustang. In 1993, Cobain took his favourite elements from each model and with the help of Fender Custom Shop, fused them together to create the Jag-Stang - a guitar with a truly unique look and sound.

Grunge Machine

The tonal core of the Jag-Stang is classic Fender - a bolt-on Maple neck attached to a solid Alder body. This provides the guitar with a natural voice that has the punchy low-end, lively mid-range and articulate highs that you’d expect from a quality Fender instrument.

Powering the Jag-Stang’s trademark potent tone are the vintage-style single-coil and custom humbucking pickups, which are perfect if you want to nail Kurt Cobain’s incendiary sound. The Jag-Stang presents a lot of tonal versatility, as you can instantly switch from a crisp single-coil tone to a raucous humbucking one. There’s individual on/off switches for each pickup and you can change their phase, giving you 4 distinct tone settings at your disposal.

Effortless Playability

The Maple neck features a very comfortable Slim “C” profile, a 7.25" and a shorter 24" scale length, making it an effortless guitar to play. The neck’s Rosewood fretboard is adorned with 21 Vintage frets, which provide an old-school feel.

Rock Solid Workhorse

If you plan on playing the Fender Artist Jag-Stang as aggressively as Kurt Cobain did, you can count on it the tuning to remain rock solid and the intonation to stay precise thanks to the rugged 6-Saddle Mustang tremolo bridge and vintage-style tuners.

Body

Body Finish: Gloss Polyester

Body Material: Alder

Body Shape: Jag-Stang

Neck

Neck Material: Maple

Neck Construction: 4-Bolt Standard

Neck Finish: Gloss Polyurethane

Neck Shape: Slim "C"

Scale Length: 24" (610 mm)

Fingerboard Material: Rosewood

Fingerboard Radius: 7.25" (184.1 mm)

Number of Frets: 22

Fret Size: Vintage

Nut Material: Synthetic Bone

Nut Width: 1.575" (40mm)

Position Inlays: White Pearloid Dot

Side Dots: White

Electronics

Bridge Pickup: Jag-Stang Humbucking

Neck Pickup: Jag-Stang Single-Coil

Controls: Master Volume, Master Tone

Switching: 2 3-Position Pickup On/Off-In/Out Phase Slide Switches

Configuration: HS

Hardware

Bridge: 6-Saddle Vintage-Style Mustang Tremolo

Hardware Finish: Nickel/Chrome

Tuning Machines: Vintage-Style

Pickguard: 4-Ply Aged White Pearloid

Control Knobs: Vintage-Style Black Plastic Jazz Bass