Fender Limited Edition Johnny Marr Signature Special Jaguar Electric Guitar, Black

Stop me if you've heard this one before – it's the Fender Johnny Marr Limited Edition Signature Special Jaguar. Johnny Marr, one of rock guitar's premier melody makers through stints in such bands as The Smiths, The Pretenders, Modest Mouse, and the Cribs, has become famous for his love for Fender's offsets, in particular, the Fender Jaguar. Through this limited, more customized Jaguar, we're met with a number of exciting features the iconic guitarist finds essential.

Breaking from conventions in even his own signature Jaguars, the Johnny Marr Signature Special Jaguar lines up with a number of features sure to inspire and turn even preconceptions about Johnny Marr Jaguars on their heads. This signature model begins, traditionally, with an alder body decked in a custom gloss lacquer finish. Taking the iconic offset Jaguar form, this body is streamlined and mobile for the kind of fast, highly melodic playing for which Marr is famous.

This signature then extends out with a maple neck in a custom-measured shape. The shape in question belongs to Marr's personal original 1965 Jaguar. Gloss-finished and enabling Marr's speedy glides from note to note, this neck matches with a rosewood fingerboard bearing twenty-two Vintage-Style frets and ivory dot inlays. Again, for Marr's ever-important melodicism, this board is the gateway. A 9.5" fingerboard radius plays with a modern, flatter feel on the fingers.

Sonically, we start to bend from tradition with this guitar's electronics. Three custom-wound Kent Armstrong Johnny Marr single-coil lipstick pickups line up to produce that eternal twang, chime, shimmer, and jangle that Marr has carried with him throughout his career and with which he has become a household name. These lipstick pickups – a definite rarity among Fender guitars – are funneled through Marr's personally-designed wiring scheme that allows for a vast spectrum of sounds with a universal "Bright" switch, a pickup position four "Bright" switch, and a middle pickup on/off/only switch. With this guitar, Marr's personal eye on switching appears for something truly different and seldom seen in Fender signature models.

Topping off this signature experience, the Johnny Marr Signature Special Jaguar features a number of fine hardware specifications. Onboard, this Jaguar lines up with a classic Jaguar tremolo bridge with rounded Mustang saddles. A Vintage-Style Floating tremolo tailpiece grounds strings and enables expressive vibrato bends in playing while a synthetic bone nut and six-in-line American Vintage series tuning machines meet up at the Marr-signature-emblazoned headstock. This Johnny Marr Jaguar travels with an included hardshell case.

In classic Marr fashion, this limited Jaguar is a marvel in every way. However long you were waiting for something like it, how soon is now? It's now.