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Help identifying an '04 CIJ Fender Jaguar?

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ChrisGormanChrisGorman Frets: 2
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Hi to all! Fret-noobie needing some help figuring out what I have on my hands so that I can give some honest info to anyone who enquires about this axe when I put it up for sale. I inherited it from a similarly clueless noob as payment for a recording session he couldn't pay for. What I know so far from the serial is that it's a Crafted In Japan model, dating to 2004, and I'm informed by knowledgeable pals that it's Antigua Gold, supposedly unusual on a Jag. It's in full working order, and immaculate condition with the exception of a miniscule nick in the finish on the back edge that doesn't make it through to the paint. But I don't know what model it is, what it's made of and how much I can reasonably ask for it. Anyone got any tips on how to narrow it down? I hunted the Fender site, and a bunch of serial number databases, but it could only basically tell me "Japan" and "2004" - I'd naively hoped that the serial could tell you every detail of the guitar, but that's simply another example of my duncery.
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  • MossMoss Frets: 2409
    Here's one that sold recently for some specs
    Stop crying, start buying
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  • ChrisGormanChrisGorman Frets: 2
    Blimey! I wondered if I should be more specific with the model, thinking that it would be called something like a Jaguar Classic Player or a Jag Something or Other, but that listing doesn't seem to have any other info. I suppose it could just be a Fender Jaguar <No More Info Needed>
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  • JookyChapJookyChap Frets: 4234
    Heh Mr Gorman, nice to see you here :)

    That is pretty, and yes Antigua, not common on a Jag at all methinks and only made for Japan iirc

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  • ChrisGormanChrisGorman Frets: 2
    If it isn't the Jookmaster himself! I had it sitting next to the Porn Shop One and the finish just doesn't compare to my rusty beauty!
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  • JookyChapJookyChap Frets: 4234
    Ah, probably needs a couple of months 'loft' time and a decent back story :)

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  • meltedbuzzboxmeltedbuzzbox Frets: 10343
    Yours has been modified I believe if that's a TOM bridge I can see there
    The Bigsby was the first successful design of what is now called a whammy bar or tremolo arm, although vibrato is the technically correct term for the musical effect it produces. In standard usage, tremolo is a rapid fluctuation of the volume of a note, while vibrato is a fluctuation in pitch. The origin of this nonstandard usage of the term by electric guitarists is attributed to Leo Fender, who also used the term “vibrato” to refer to what is really a tremolo effect.
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  • JookyChapJookyChap Frets: 4234
    @meltedbuzzbox said:
    Yours has been modified I believe if that's a TOM bridge I can see there
    Ah, couldn't see that on my fone.. £50 it is then..

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  • ChrisGormanChrisGorman Frets: 2
    I zoomed in a bit for comparison, and allegedly Fender factory fitted some Jags with their own adjustomatic guy, some sort of close-but-not-infringement-close copy of the TOM, and I reckoned that might be the adjustomatic here - no slot heads on the posts etc, looks like the tuning is all done from the knurled wheels underneath, though I'll need to get a closer look when I'm back in the studio.
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  • andrewawardandrewaward Frets: 1158
    It wouldn't have left the factory in 2004 with that TOM
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