I have same including colour! Thanks brother from Warren 😎

I wanted a '65 style Jaguar in sunburst to pair up with my '65 Princeton Reverb Reissue amp this year for a project. Came upon a lightly used 2016 Squier Vintage Modified Jaguar that fit the bill nicely at a remarkably affordable price. I kept the original bridge, but put Loctite on the post threads. I shimmed the neck to steepen the angle of the strings across the bridge saddles, increasing the force of the strings against the saddles. Flatwound jazz light strings replaced the roundwounds that came with the guitar because I have used flatwounds on my archtop electrics for years. Those easy adjustments were all that I needed to do. The Squier VM Jag lacks the tremlock and the string mute found on a '65 Fender, but I do not need those features anyway. Excellent value. Thank you, and others, for posting helpful information about the Squier Jags.

Enjoyed this. I got a classic vibe 60s jag just under a year ago and put fender pure vintage 65 pickups in it (video on my channel 😉) and I love it. Kept the Squier bridge but had a tech put a shim in the neck and I’ve never had trouble with it besides needing a bit of locktite on the screws. I have got the 9.5 staytrem on a Mexican jazzmaster though and it’s been faultless ever since 👍🏻

I have the same guitar, a 2013 I believe. Same bridge mod and adding the Fender trem soon. Thanks for a fun video.

If you shim the neck about .25 degrees, you can raise the bridge so it can rock back and forth either the vibrato, as it was designed to do. Really goes a long way for better tuning stability.

Something that always surprises me is when people buy the Staytrem bridge, but not the arm. At least on my Classic Vibe (both the Jaguar and the Bass VI), the tremolo had a lot of clackety and rattling, that was instantly fixed by swapping the arm and collet to the Staytrem model. I also have the 10-48 flats on mine, light flats are so good on the Jaguar! :) I skipped the Staytrem bridge on the Jaguar because I was completely happy with the stock one (the CV is Mustang-type) but I wouldn't rule one out later - I love Stainless Steel bridges and I've ordered one for the Bass VI. So yeah, I'd have modded this very similarly to you! I'd add the Staytrem arm, I'd probably add the Mute - pickups I'm not sure. Having used them for over a year now, I'd happily put the Squier CV coils in a VM if I saw a set going cheap - otherwise, Nisebelle makes amazing noises with the Lollars in her Jaguar, so that's certainly something I'd consider too. I'd love to see an update video on this - how you feel about the mods one year on, if you changed anything else etc.

I've spent weeks getting mine just right, pain in the arse guitar, floating bridge on thimbles, WTF, neck needs shimming, seriously?, bridge has no saddle height adjustment, Ffs, needs heavy gauge strings to stay in tune, come on?, proper pain in the arse guitar to get right after playing strats and les Paul's, that said, now it's all set up, I love it

i have same vintage modified...mustang bridge...I had to 1) shim the neck well over 1 degree so that i could get good action and have the bridge float 2) deoxit the hell out of the switches to get them to stop crapping out..works great now 3)added more foam under the pickups 4) added 11's (the 9s kept popping out of the bridge even after the shim love the stock pickups and now its great

Just ordered one from reverb for $500 shipped, can't wait to get that Johnny Marr jingle

So many things to say about what has been my go-to instrument for the better part of a decade now (see profile pic), trying to distill it to the pertinent ones. 1: Weirdly enough, I remember the surf green/lake placid(?) blue ones coming stock with white pickguards, one of the reasons I chose the white because WHY WOULD YOU NOT TORTOISE?!!!.... Ahem, I mean personal choice is a wonderful thing. Moving on: 2: That is not a 7.2" radius bridge, that is an *adjustable* bridge. You could set it to 5" or completely flat if you wanted to. The real issue is yes, those threaded saddles leave something to be desired. Not insurmountable but it's on the short list of replacement parts once I have the money and inclination. Another bridge issue you did not address is the tendency for the actual threaded bridge posts to slip down during play, leaving you with a buzzing mess. I fixed this with the humble rockstar Elmer's glue, though I'm sure thread-lock or any number of alternatives would suffice. That said, for my tele which I (heathen as I am) swapped in a Jag/Jazz style trem on I ordered a slotted adjustable radius bridge off Amazon which I will likely be repeating for the Jag. When I get around to it. Digging your solution though the thicker (radius) saddles beg the quiestion: does it suffer for intonation range (which can be a very big deal in this style guitar)? 3: Interesting that you went light-gauge flatwounds, I went heavy-gauge roundwounds (currently Apex). Different styles/string feels obviously and the flatwounds feel oh-so ironically apropos for a guitar that was the follow-up to Fender's attempt to break into the Gibson-dominated jazz market (which failed about as hard as one might expect). 4: This guitar goes to a whole new level when you start modifying the electronics (disclaimer: not a project for beginners!). To mine I added a Broadcaster-style blend control to replace the (lead circuit) tone I never use, as well as series-parallel and phase wiring which also expand the capabilities of that beautiful dark rhythm circuit. For more information see my videeo here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e7aBlsqDrpenmH0.html (please bear in mind this is one of my early videos so the video quality isn't that great). For the record, the Duncan Designed are staying, far better than anything Fender has been putting out since the original run, and frankly boutique pickups are more money than I want to spend on minimal tone upgrades. 5: I'd go a little lighter on effects for demo purposes. I generally just do a clean/dirty, maybe some reverb. I save effects for effects demos because you want people to really hear what they're there to hear. My two cents/pence. 6: Liked and subscribed, certainly hope you'll return the favor! Always good to meet another jag-lover! ;}

Also, I just got a 2023 Squier Jaguar, Daphne blue. The bridge saddles now have the little groove in the middle and the bridge and nut are both at 9.5 radius. I'm looking for something to change out but strings is all I've come up with.

I don't see a strong reason for changing the bridge, on the factory bridge there is the possibility of adjusting the height of the saddles, each separately, independently of the lifter of the entire bridge, so that it is possible to achieve the same radius with the neck-raising of each saddle as needed. I notice that the new bridge does not have saddles that can be fixed in height - impractical, even though it already has the same radius as the neck. It is always good when you can adjust the height of the saddle independently of the others.

Love the way English people say Jag you are.

The original bridge has height adjustable saddles (and intonation adjustment)....why couldn't you just adjust the original bridge saddles to suit the 9.5 radius ??

I have one of these hogs put some classic vibe pickups in it

You should try some Fishman actives?

Have you done any of those upgrades yet? I’m looking to do that on mine and would love to know what pickups you ended up using.

Hi Gavin, very helpful video, thanks. I have the same guitar in Olympic White. I have a few questions and a suggestion. Firstly, did you use the D'addario superlight chromes (10-48)? Did you shim the neck? What amount of relief & string height did you go for? My suggestions would include new foam under the pickups ‐ it's like neoprene draft excluder with suitable size springs on the pickup adjuster screws. I got the Fender AVRI65 vintage pickups at a good price. When I intonate the Staytrem I always rock the bridge back - much more accurate. I've had a treble bleed fitted to the volume pot which gives a much smoother use. Thanks again for the video, I love my Jag but the G string is plinking from the 15th fret upwards I think flats & a new setup might be the way forward.

I thought you were dead, Gavin?!

Install a 1 degree shim mate X