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Fender string through short scale?
Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 3:49 am
by Sidney Vicious
Did Fender ever make a string through short scale?
My '76 Music Master guitar came with an old black tolex Fender logo case that has the impression of having held a string-through bodied guitar for many years. You can see the six ferrule impressions clear as day.
Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 6:09 am
by hotrodperlmutter
only thing i'm aware of that fender did with string through before the 90's was tele deluxes, customs (?), and strat hardtails in the 70's. no shortscales that i know of.
i do know that my mustang barely fit inside my strat case, so maybe your case is actually a regular one that housed a tele or strat...
for reference:
fuck i want that guitar back.
Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 3:44 pm
by bassintom
hotrodperlmutter wrote:only thing i'm aware of that fender did with string through before the 90's was tele deluxes, customs (?), and strat hardtails in the 70's. no shortscales that i know of.
i do know that my mustang barely fit inside my strat case, so maybe your case is actually a regular one that housed a tele or strat...
for reference:
fuck i want that guitar back.
Also the Robert Cray strats (they are hardtail) have string thru..I think mine is 2004 but not sure.
Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 10:19 pm
by Sidney Vicious
bassintom wrote:hotrodperlmutter wrote:only thing i'm aware of that fender did with string through before the 90's was tele deluxes, customs (?), and strat hardtails in the 70's. no shortscales that i know of.
i do know that my mustang barely fit inside my strat case, so maybe your case is actually a regular one that housed a tele or strat...
for reference:
fuck i want that guitar back.
WOW!!!!!! Nice guitar - I'd miss it too.
I'll check to see if my strat or tele fit - can't see how one will - but will report back.
Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 10:52 pm
by paul_
hotrodperlmutter wrote:only thing i'm aware of that fender did with string through before the 90's was tele deluxes, customs (?), and strat hardtails in the 70's.
And regular teles, they had toploading bridges on '59s, the same year of rosewood fretboards and hardtail strats.
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 4:28 am
by proroby
Musicmasters definitely did.
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 6:40 am
by hotrodperlmutter
Definitely did what? Musicmasters were never string-through, afaik.
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 1:53 pm
by stewart
the 90s reissues were string-through, vintage ones weren't. it could have been modded to take a different bridge though, my old one had been.
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 6:24 pm
by hotrodperlmutter
90's reissue musicmasters? never heard of 'em.
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 7:40 pm
by Mages
really? robroe has one
I think mezz and roachello do as well.
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 1:47 am
by stewart
carl must be extracting the urine.
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 3:32 am
by hotrodperlmutter
no no, i actually had forgotten about those. i thought you were thinking of the 90's duo RI. i am, how do you say, forgetful. which is sad, because i pined for that guitar for a long time before rob traded it to aen.
problem is that i think those are 24.75" scale, right? if that's true, and they're essentially a mustang body, i don't think that would fit in a case designed for a 25.5" guitar, as my mustang barely squeaked into my strat case. just reaching at this point.
fact is, this guy got a vintage musicmaster, with a vintage case. what're the odds that anything modern was stored in it for a long enough time period for the ferrules to form an indention, and why?
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 3:29 am
by Sidney Vicious
Well I finally got the Telecaster down from its case and tried it in the Musicmaster case - and it fit. The MM case is definitely shorter than the standard Fender case for Teles and Strats - but the Telecaster fit fine - so maybe someone had a Telecaster stored in there for a long time? I would have thought the Tele would not fit -
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 4:11 am
by ekwatts
Well, you expect that with the scale differences that Jaguars and Mustangs would be much shorter than strats and Teles, but they probably make up for that by having big arses. I'd have to get up out of my chair and walk two steps over to the other side of this room to actually check this, but I won't. The only guitar I've ever had trouble with in that respect is my Burns Batwing which has a really rather ridiculously huge head, combined with its reverse-offset butt makes it impossible to fit into a case as it adds about 5 inches more than an average strat.