Should I trade my Fender Jag for an SG faded?

astrozombie

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I've been offered this brown SG in a trade.

I've been looking for a mahogany backup for my 333. They want my Jaguar Special HH. we've kind of been growing apart..

what are your thoughts?
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Re: Should I trade my Fender Jag for an SG faded?

I had a Faded SG Special, and it was a great guitar for the money. For $470 out the door, it sounded almost exactly like my '68 SG. Not bad.

That said, I wouldn't trade your Jag for one. Isn't that your baby?
 
Re: Should I trade my Fender Jag for an SG faded?

I had a Faded SG Special, and it was a great guitar for the money. For $470 out the door, it sounded almost exactly like my '68 SG. Not bad.

That said, I wouldn't trade your Jag for one. Isn't that your baby?

at the moment, I have a feeling the 333 is going to take up that #1 spot though. It's a very different guitar with a very different type of resonance. I've been playing a borrowed SG standard and my Vox reacts very differently to both Gibsons than it does to my Fender. I hate to say it but they've made me notice my Fender's shortcomings. Emptypockets once told me to get a LP because it had had the sound I was searching for in replacement pickups. I'm starting to believe that it's true.
 
Re: Should I trade my Fender Jag for an SG faded?

Keep the Jaguar and buy a Gibson. You might prefer that mahogany tone now but in a few months you will miss your Fender.
 
Re: Should I trade my Fender Jag for an SG faded?

I spent a lot of time and effort trying to make an SG what I wanted it to be, in the end it just wasn't. That said, I don't like the 24" scale either, but of the two I'd rather have the Jag, especially when you had the Dimarzios in it.

It's not what you play anyway. It's how you play it, brah.
 
Re: Should I trade my Fender Jag for an SG faded?

I spent a lot of time and effort trying to make an SG what I wanted it to be, in the end it just wasn't. That said, I don't like the 24" scale either, but of the two I'd rather have the Jag, especially when you had the Dimarzios in it.

It's not what you play anyway. It's how you play it, brah.

For realsies. Those DiMarzios were the bomb. If i ever have a guitar with a great pickup combination don't youse guys ever let me get rid of them again.
 
Re: Should I trade my Fender Jag for an SG faded?

I've been thinking about that.

I'd highly recommend it. I wanted to sell my 62 RI for a while but because I didn't get any offers that I really liked I ended up stumbling on a great deal on the Music Man I now have.

Play your 333, enjoy the hell out of it, and start saving up for a new guitar. You shouldn't sell the Fender until you've had your next guitar for a while. When you can play then back to back and have done for at least a month or so you are in the best position to assess what will really be the best decision for your herd.
 
Re: Should I trade my Fender Jag for an SG faded?

I'd highly recommend it. I wanted to sell my 62 RI for a while but because I didn't get any offers that I really liked I ended up stumbling on a great deal on the Music Man I now have.

Play your 333, enjoy the hell out of it, and start saving up for a new guitar. You shouldn't sell the Fender until you've had your next guitar for a while. When you can play then back to back and have done for at least a month or so you are in the best position to assess what will really be the best decision for your herd.

right on man.

I'm eyeing a Firebird 70s tribute for sale locally... the seller says he will be looking to sell it in march and ill notify me. $650.
 
Re: Should I trade my Fender Jag for an SG faded?

You've had that Jag for a Long time man...and in my experience, any guitar that keeps you satisfied for that long, needs to be kept forever...even if sometimes you're not digging it completely, or are using something else more. Clearly the Jag had exactly what you wanted for a long long time, and that means something. You might just be bored with it right now, or be doing something suited better to the 333...But eventually you'll need that Jag again, and it's way better to have it stashed in a case somewhere, than in someone elses hands. Ya know?

So I vote, Keep the Jag.

An SG isn't really the best backup for a Semi-hollow anyways, totally different sounds. If anything just score an older Sheraton, or Rivera as a backup to the 333, and have a true "backup".

An if you're bored with the Jag, why not try something new with it? Make it into a true Jag, single coils and all. Don't let it be a "backup" to the Humbucker loaded Gibson...Make it something different, so you can find uses for it that the Gibson can't cover....You could even rout it for a tradition Jag trem, and get all those groovy picking behind the bridge sounds, and a bit of waggle. I find having a few very different guitars much more useful live, than having very similar ones. Definitely makes switching guitars make alot more sense.
 
Re: Should I trade my Fender Jag for an SG faded?

You've had that Jag for a Long time man...and in my experience, any guitar that keeps you satisfied for that long, needs to be kept forever...even if sometimes you're not digging it completely, or are using something else more. Clearly the Jag had exactly what you wanted for a long long time, and that means something. You might just be bored with it right now, or be doing something suited better to the 333...But eventually you'll need that Jag again, and it's way better to have it stashed in a case somewhere, than in someone elses hands. Ya know?

So I vote, Keep the Jag.

An SG isn't really the best backup for a Semi-hollow anyways, totally different sounds. If anything just score an older Sheraton, or Rivera as a backup to the 333, and have a true "backup".

An if you're bored with the Jag, why not try something new with it? Make it into a true Jag, single coils and all. Don't let it be a "backup" to the Humbucker loaded Gibson...Make it something different, so you can find uses for it that the Gibson can't cover....You could even rout it for a tradition Jag trem, and get all those groovy picking behind the bridge sounds, and a bit of waggle. I find having a few very different guitars much more useful live, than having very similar ones. Definitely makes switching guitars make alot more sense.


I hear you man. I guess I'm trying to decide if I'm making the jump to mahogany and set neck for life or just for now.
 
Re: Should I trade my Fender Jag for an SG faded?

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just tried out my Jaguar with the dirty fingers in the bridge. it was very harsh sounding. I remembered it as more musical.

to those of you who have said yes, what's your point of view?
 
Re: Should I trade my Fender Jag for an SG faded?

IMO, your HH Jaguar was cooking until you caved in to peer pressure and emasculated the guitar by removing the DiMarzio pickups. I wrote then - and still think now - that this was the wrong solution to the problem. Instead, the other guitarist in Viacadiz should have upgraded his Telecaster and/or amplification to keep up with you.

In my opinion an SG Faded is only a backup for an ES semi-hollow in the dire event of string breakage.

Of course, if you did go ahead with the trade, the Gibson DF would enliven the SG, leaving you free to choose something more suitable for the ES-333.
 
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