Fender Jaguar Baritone Custom

The Fender Jaguar Baritone Custom or Jaguar Bass VI Custom is a retro six-string electric bass guitar manufactured in 2005 and 2006, based on the 1964 Fender Jaguar electric guitar and the 1961 six-string Fender Bass VI electric bass guitar.

Fender Jaguar Baritone Custom/Fender Jaguar Bass VI Custom
Manufacturer	Fender
Period	2004–2006
Construction
Body type	Solid
Neck joint	Bolt-on
Scale	28.5 in 723.9 mm
Woods
Body	Alder
Neck	Maple
Fretboard	Rosewood
Hardware
Bridge	Adjusto-Matic Bridge with Anchored-Tailpiece
Pickup(s)	2 Special Design MIJ Single-Coil Jaguar Pickups (Neck & Bridge)
Colors available
(as of 2006) 3-Color Sunburst

The tuning for The Baritone Custom is set one octave lower than a standard tuned guitar. Using the same bass string set as the Bass VI model but with a shorter scale length giving the Baritone Custom less string tension.

The body shape, pickup, and it's switching setup are identical to the two pickup Jaguar model. Its electrics (but not pickups or body shape) are like the four-string Jaguar Bass,

issued in 2006 and still in production.

It has a fixed bridge rather than the Fender floating tremolo used on the Bass VI and all other Jaguar models. Only the Baritone Custom, its variant, and models of the Fender Jaguar Special HH lack a floating tremolo.

All these have separate and similar belly-mounted bridges and tailpieces.

2005 Fender Jaguar Baritone Custom, in a Fender Jazz Bass case

The Jaguar Baritone Custom is only a Crafted-In-Japan model. The difference is the master has different switches and unusual internal wiring. It includes a fuzz switch.

In 2006, Fender USA changed the name of the instrument to Jaguar Bass VI Custom. The term baritone guitar refers to one tuned B to B, between the tunings of a standard guitar and a bass. Despite the Bass VI called a baritone for most of it's production run, The Jaguar Baritone Custom was always designed as a bass.

Fender discontinued the model at the end of 2006.