Some guitars are born whole.
Others arrive in two immaculate pieces, two years apart, and then snap together like destiny finally clearing its throat.
This Fender American Professional Classic Jazzmaster is exactly that sort of creature — a 2023 neck and a 2025 body, both USA-built, both flawlessly finished, both waiting for each other like a rom-com subplot for guitar nerds. The result is a Jazzmaster so clean, so tight, so precise that it feels like a custom shop love child accidentally assembled by the main production line on an unusually inspired Thursday.
The Faded Dakota Red gloss finish — dangerously close to Fiesta Red, just don’t tell the purists — wraps around the alder body with that soft vintage warmth that makes you look twice. It’s the colour of old Fender catalogues and new heartbreak. The 1-ply anodised aluminium guard completes the look with a calm “yes, I am that cool” confidence.
Up top sits the 2023 American Professional C-shape maple neck, satin-backed for speed, glossy on the headstock for vanity. The Bi-Flex truss-rod is ready for whatever emotional tuning decisions you throw at it, and the dark rosewood fretboard with its 9.5-inch radius and narrow-tall frets plays so clean you might start questioning your own technique. Zero wear, because this thing has barely lived a life yet. You get to be its first bad influence.
The handwound P90 Jazzmaster pickups are the soul of this whole operation — vintage-output, Alnico V bar magnets, and that unmistakable chewy midrange that makes chords sound personal and single notes sound like the opening line of an essay no one asked for but everyone should read. They’re articulate, punchy, and capable of everything from whispery indie shimmer to the sort of garage-rock bark that terrifies clean amps.
And the wiring? It's very clever!
CTS A500K solid-shaft pots, USA-spec everything, a three-way toggle plus a 2-way slider for series/parallel mode and kill-switch stutter chaos. Roller pots removed because this Jazzmaster decided it wanted adulthood and boundaries. Four voices: neck, neck+bridge parallel, bridge, and neck+bridge in series, which is basically the “open the gates and let the thunder in” mode.The Mustang-style bridge with solid steel saddles keeps everything tight and precise, while the Jazzmaster tremolo (with lock and tension screw) is ready for wobbles, shimmers, dives, and late-night existential vibrato. Screw-in arm, because this one likes commitment.
Near mint overall — only the kind of tiny surface marks that prove it has moved from one room to another at least once. At 3.6 kg, it balances perfectly and feels like it was shaped by CAD software and dreams.
This is a Jazzmaster for someone who wants modern precision, vintage flavour, and just the slightest hint of mad-scientist experimentation.
A guitar with clean DNA, fresh attitude, and enough flexibility to soundtrack an entire album.
This instrument received a full professional setup with deep body cleaning, body polish, neck deep clean, lemon oil fretboard treatment, full electronics check, truss-rod and action and intonation adjustment. Restringed with D'addario 10-46 Nickel-plated steel strings.
This guitar will be shipped around UK with Parcelforce courier, safely packed into a sturdy guitar cardboard box. 24h courier service provided to UK customers. We also ship to USA, Canada, Japan, Australia and many other places, but at the moment we don't ship to EU or Northern Ireland.
Fender Jazzmaster - American Professional Classic - P90s - Faded Dakota Red
SPECS:
MODEL: Fender American Professional Classic Jazzmaster
YEAR: 2023 neck; 2025 body
COLOUR: Faded Dakota Red gloss finish (very similar to Fiesta Red)
PICKGUARD: 1-ply anodized aluminium
NECK: 2023 Fender American Professional C-shape maple neck, satin back finish, gloss headstock finish; Bi-Flex truss-rod; neck heel date 10 Apr 2023
NECK THICKNESS: 1st fret - 21.1 mm ; 12th fret - 23.1 mm;
NUT: synthetic bone
NUT WIDTH: 42.7mm
STRING TREE: Graphtech frictionless
FRETBOARD: dark rosewood, 9.5-inch radius, gloss finish
FRETS: 22 narrow tall frets with no wear
TUNERS: Fender USA sealed tuners
BODY: 2025 Fender American Professional Classic alder body, original SS body routing, factory shielding and grounding; neck pocket date 10 Jul 2025
WEIGHT: 3.6 kg
BRIDGE: Mustang-style bridge with solid steel saddles
TREMOLO: Jazzmaster tremolo with locking mechanism and tension adjustment; screw-in tremolo arm
WEAR: near mint condition with very minor surface wear
PICKUPS: handwound vintage-output P90 Jazzmaster pickups with Alnico V bar magnets
WIRING: USA-spec wiring with CTS solid shaft A500K volume and tone pots; 3-way toggle switch, 2-way slider switch for series/parallel mode and killswitch stutter effects; roller pots removed. 4 unique sounds (neck, neck+bridge in parallel, bridge, neck+bridge in-series)
DISCLAIMER
Please note that although we put our heart and soul and also all our knowledge into every single guitar we sell, a setup is a personal preference. However, we try to get the best playability out of every guitar and set them up so you can play both rhythm and lead. We also pull them all apart to clean and check every single component and replace all unreliable parts with new ones, from dodgy pots to the whole wiring, tuners, string trees, nuts and etc. All the work done is described in detail in the listing.
We make sure that every guitar we sell is problem free and take full responsibility for the accuracy of our listing descriptions. All photographs are done by a professional photographer and processed on a calibrated monitor. Some colours might look slightly different on your monitor, but we will always put the official Fender colour name in the listing description, so please study pictures of other guitars with the same colour if you are unsure. We focus on finding great quality guitars and making them reliable and inspiring to play


