MMStingray54 wrote:...Just to throw another spanner in the mix, I witnessed (indeed played with) JimN when he's used a Fender Jaguar to great effect on 60s instrumentals and other stuff getting a wonderful sound!!
Don, I'm sure you're thinking of the purple metallic MIJ
Fender Jazzmaster (the "J Mascis Model") from about 2008, which I bought from David Martin here, very soon after he bought it. I've never liked standard Jazzmaster pickups (the underwound Japanese version even less) so replaced them with Catswhisker P90 units made in Jazzmaster form-factor and with the correct covers. So it's essentially a Fender guitar with (more powerful) Gibson-type pickups.
I also have (and I know you have seen) an original late 1990s
Squier Vista Series
Jagmaster with Catswhisker P90s in a humbucker form-factor. Allan of Catswhisker usually calls the model the "Phat Moggy" in a cream-coloured cover, but the pure white covers I ordered made the Jagmaster look more Jazzmaster-ish and Allan dubbed those pickups "White Pussies"!
The MIJ Vista Series Jagmaster was essentially a Jaguar body and exceptionally slim 24" scale-length neck, with Kluson-type tuners, a Stratocaster bridge and open-coiled HB pickups. There was a later edition made in China, which was of much lower quality, with a 25.5" scale length and no attempt to keep the vintage vibe, so no gloss on the (chunky) neck, etc.