Kevin Shields - Fender Jaguar

To get the thick, dreamy sound he perfected in My Bloody Valentine, Shields would customize the tremolo system for his Fender Jaguars.

He had the tremolo arm on his guitars extended considerably and uses tape on one end so that the tremolo arm sits high and is extremely loose so he can strum and manipulate it at the same time.

Shields also plays Fender Jazzmasters, although his first one was actually a Jazzmaster copy by Ibanez.

Fender Jaguar

Kurt Cobain - 1965 Jaguar

Cobain used a modified 1965 sunburst finish Jaguar with a Gibson Tune-O-Matic bridge, modified circuitry and humbuckers. It was Kurt's main guitar during the Nevermind era.

It had a red-swirl mother-of-bowling-ball pickguard, 2 volume knobs, 1 tone knob, and tape covering the on/off and phase switches, which were disconnected. These three switches were replaced with a Gibson-style toggle switch.

Full-sized humbuckers reside in both the bridge and neck positions, the neck being a DiMarzio PAF and the bridge a DiMarzio Super Distortion, until the In Utero tour when it was replaced with a black Duncan JB.

1965 Fender Jaguar - Sunburst