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Walked into my local guitar store the other day and there sat a 65 MM II! Picked it up and it played like butta!!! Had to have it and asking price was 450 bucks! Paid 150 down to hold it till tomorrow(payday) so i'll pick her up in the morning!

Its in pretty good shape except that some idiot painted it black sometime in its life! I think i saw Daphne blue peaking through a couple of the chips! Also someone unhooked the neck pup and put some kind of old Dimarzio in the bridge. Sounds good though so i may leave it.

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I'll throw up some pics this weekend!

$450? I hate you.

oh the waiting...

but the reward is worth it.

'66 MMII was my 1st shortscale. cost me $20 in costa rica, though. refin and beat/played to shit... REALLY unplayable.
it was a wall-hanger for years.
lovely guits, fer sure.

Pat.

honeyiscool wrote:$450? I hate you.

Lol!!!

I love my 78' Musicmaster. The size is so perfect and the simplicty of the guitar is so inviting. Congrats on your new purchase.

Amazing. Well done.

NickS wrote:Amazing. Well done.

I didn't know you could do that!

And now we have


Marquee Mark.

Agreed, worthless without pics.
And now that I revisit maybe 5 minutes later, I see that there are pictures. Beautiful!

lol Marquee Mark.

I was thinking it had a Dimarzio in the bridge but its a Fender Lace Custom!!! Sounds Wicked and this thing plays so damn good!!! DAMN!!! I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's just lovely - well done.

I'm Ankhanu, and I approve this purchase.

Oh my god... that was $450?

I hate you so much right now.

That looks like a Silver Lace Sensor. It's the one Lace color I've never tried but considering how much I love Hot Gold, Gold, Blue, and Red, I have to think it sounds fantastic.

sucks about the replaced tuner, but a great score nonetheless.

resize your pics before you post them, pls.

hotrodperlmutter wrote:sucks about the replaced tuner, but a great score nonetheless.

resize your pics before you post them, pls.

Tuners not replaced, there all original Kluson Deluxe. Just doesn't show up good in the pics! At any rate, I freaking love this thing! I've got a duo sonic replacement pearl guard with wire switches in it that I will probably put on it so I can hook up both pups! The neck pup is not hooked up now.

hwuh... i must need to have my eyes checked.

hotrodperlmutter wrote:hwuh... i must need to have my eyes checked.

LOL!!

What's the serial number on the neckplate? Use an X for the last two digits for security reasons, but if you can list that, we can help you date it...

The reason I ask is - that doesn't look like a '65 to me. The pickguard is right, the logo on the peghead is right, and the tuners (five of them) are right... but the back has a tummy cut, and the contoured bodies didn't hit until '69.

There may be some date / model codes on the heel of the neck. If you ever pull the neck off, make sure you snap a couple of pics of any writing or stamps you see there.

Nice looking guitar - even in the black. If the finish is truly ugly, you can always refinish the body, but I don't think it looks bad, and for $450, even if it IS a '69, or has parts from '65 on a later era body, it's still a sweet score! Congrats!

oh shit, phil, good eye on the contour. could be a partsonicII.

not to be prickish, but what sort of 'security reasons' can arise from printing the full serial number? replication and/or fraud?