My pride and joy.

Doesn't get much better than this. If you're a die-hard Her's fan, get one, and cherish it forever. They'll have to pry this guitar out of my cold dead hands, it's an absolute gorgeous beast.

"It will be mine. Oh yes, it will be mine."

BB had Lucille. Hendrix his strat. Martin Gore his hollow Gretsch. Cobain the 65 jaguar. Wayne Campbell the Excalibur. This week I went into a pawn shop and found my baby... Fender jaguar blacktop HH with Gibson Les Paul pickups and bridge. Made in Mexico, she is a guitar with a personality disorder. Say hello to the TacoCaster.

The Alnico pickups almost seem too much for the body to handle at times. I have a feeling this will be my ultimate bias when it comes to playing. I love the shape, feel, response and tone, and its next-to-nothing string action make it not only easy but fun to play. I only wish it were lighter, but I have a feeling the sound may change as a result.

Side note: I read somewhere that a reviewer assumed the old schoolers who made this guitar famous again wouldn't like the HH blacktop...

"Take a bunch of well-known Fender Jaguar fans; let's say, ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, ex-Red Hot Chili Pepper John Frusciante and Kurt Cobain.

Hand them the new Blacktop Jaguar HH and we reckon they'd say (even Kurt, hypothetically) something along the lines of, "Er, what happened to all the rollers and switches?" That would be shortly before they noticed that the floating vibrato with the long arm has also done a runner." - Ed Mitchell, MusicRadar

If he did any homework he'd realize Kurt had gaff taped all the switches as an attempt to lock down the pickups in parallel position. He would have loved this thing. And if he plugged the Jaguar Blacktop HH through a poly chorus and big muff, he'd realize it sounds just like Kurt's axe on In Utero.

Powerful Jag incarnation

As with any Jags: the short scale feels very comfortable for rhythmic playing and string bending but can turn a little tedious on the upper frets. Once you set its pickups properly it has a decent sustain. You get the tone that you could reasonably expect from it (in terms of regular humbuckers and a dark –rosewood– fingerboard). It's visually sexy, it is nice to see a Jag with this simplicity but unfortunately it doesn't sound as amazing as it looks.

Love this beefy beauty!

The simple electronics - 2 pickups, two knobs, one switch - are, in my opinion, far superior to the many switches and tremolo, etc. I just need a reliable guitar that sounds AWESOME and this one, with the vintage Alnico humbuckers deliver the goodness! Apparently they are no longer making them, which is a bummer.

monster dual-bucker tone without breaking the bank.........

The Blacktop Jaguar HH delivers monster dual-bucker tone without breaking the bank. Vintage-style Fender Blacktop alnico humbucking pickups deliver the hot high-gain power of today's most aggressive sounds; other distinctive touches include skirted black amp knobs, Adjusto-Matic bridge with anchored tailpiece, slinky 24" scale, and one lean and mean three-way toggle switch rather than the customary barrage of Jaguar controls. Features include an alder body, maple neck, 9.5"-radius rosewood fretboard, 22 medium-jumbo frets, gloss urethane finish, and nickel/chrome hardware.

Black Jaguar HH

Pickups are dark, neck is glossy and feels great, well-built. I love this guitar.

Customized

Great guitar, very playable. Mine is black and I have swapped the stock humbuckers with Gibson P94's.

2013 Fender Blacktop Jaguar

I was given an all black Blacktop Jaguar as a gift in 2013. I switched the stock knobs with standard Mustang/ Jaguar knobs.

First Guitar

My first "Real" guitar, the other being a stag strat copy, really nice to play and the humbuckers are very nice.

White blacktop

I painted it white and installed a DiMarzio Super distortion in the bridge.