Future Value of Jaguars?

[WoodyG3]

Since it appears that Fender has discontinued the Jag, I thought I'd see what people here think may happen to the value of Jags in the future. Will they hold a sort of mystique for their styling and versatile tone controls? Will they be thought of as a silly novelty? Twenty years from now, will they fetch a lot of money, or are they going to be just another unusual Fender bass that never really matches the value of the basic P and J?

 

[M.R. Ogle]

The "Performers" and Katanas of the 2000's....

 

[superbassman2000]

i dunno, i'd put them above the katanas and such as they are a classic fender shape--I put them in line with the musicmasters and mustangs. I don't expect them to raise in value beyond following inflation of course there will be the occasional person trying to pass them off as classic fenders and try to sell one for 8K, but i can't imagine anyone would buy it

 

[M.R. Ogle]

I was being facetious, you're probably exactly right. Now, if they issued "Road Worn" Jaguars....

 

[FunkMetalBass]

Probably nothing.

 

[ADBass123]

There great basses for sure but I think the Mustang and Music Master analogy is pretty spot on.

 

[IPA]

Ugh don't remind me. I missed a Condition 2 one for like 450 over at MF a few weeks back, and then when I went to check again last week I found they were discontinued

Now back to my other 2 top choices... Geddy or USA standard...

 

[winston]

FWIW I sold my Jaguar Baritone Custom for $100 more than it cost me new...they're prized by surf-music buffs and not many were made.

 

[mikeswals]

Other than inflation, nothing Fender Japan ever fetches high dollar.

 

[Din Of Win]

FWIW I sold my Jaguar Baritone Custom for $100 more than it cost me new...they're prized by surf-music buffs and not many were made.

the 6-strings (jags and jazzmasters) ALWAYS go for high prices, both for surf stylists and noise-rocky shoegaze stylists (OMG i want a J Mascis sig jazzmaster so bad).

Basses... not so much. Most bassists in those respective styles play a myrriad of basses (i see mostly Ps Js and Tbirds). So jag basses, i don't see rising TOO high.


The inflations are due mainly to the genre-recognition, so since the jag bass isn't representitive of the styles it's 6-string brethren are, their prices won't fluxuate too much.