Originally Posted by: Fenderallthewaygibson for a warm jazz sound?hehe, for 700 and american starts pretty good, but look into other fenders, like the jazzmaster or sumtin, dont no 2 much about em tho...but i play a strat and i get all kinds of sounds out of it

gibsons have a much warmer tone then fenders do. and they are very versatile guitars. when it comes to jazz, a fender or a gibson would work, but for the distorted stuff you're going to want humbuckers. which is why I still recommend a gibson