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designed by Roger Rossmeisl and previously owned by Carl Wilson, apparently:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1972-FENDER-VIN ... 27c8475a81

sort of awesome...

That is quite a curio. Dunno if I like it or not, but I'll always love those headstocks.

Needs a Floyd Rose then it'd be sweet as fook.

Really cool, like it a lot, but I bet it weighs as much as I do.

The tailpiece on that guitar looks like a modified version of the tremolo on my Fender Coronado II and a Mustang. Very Cool. I like how it has Fender on the flattened tube. I wish the Coronado had that.



Fender Coronado II

I love the look of lucite/acrylic guitars but like benecol said- they tend to weigh a ton. I have to use a really wide strap with my BCR Mockingbird to distribute the weight, its also more comfortable higher on the strap.

tee hee

Love it !!!

Fender Lucite Duo-Sonic
Fender Electric Instrument Company
Fullerton, California
1960

This particular guitar was made of Lucite for trade-show purposes. By using new synthetic materials, designers created an ultramodern look for the solid-body electric guitar.

benecol wrote:Really cool, like it a lot, but I bet it weighs as much as I do.

Yeah, as someone who finds a musicmaster just about ok and a jazzmaster prohibitively heavy, I can't even imagine rocking one of these.

paul_ wrote:

Fender Lucite Duo-Sonic
Fender Electric Instrument Company
Fullerton, California
1960

This particular guitar was made of Lucite for trade-show purposes. By using new synthetic materials, designers created an ultramodern look for the solid-body electric guitar.

I don't know if it's my eyes or my brain or what, but the upper horn on that one looks really odd to me - kind of enormous!

edit: maybe it's the lower bout actually. oh i don't know.

markarkark wrote: I don't know if it's my eyes or my brain or what, but the upper horn on that one looks really odd to me - kind of enormous!

I'm fairly certain the whole thing was eyeballed, being a 1960 one-off for a tradeshow... either that or they just shaved some corners off here and there to reduce the weight/extended the horn to make it balance better, etc... who knows.

The pickguard at the control area is crazy too, though this may have been to conceal a ground wire from the bridge.

looks like someone left it out in the sun.

Sometimes prototypes stay prototypes for a reason...

I still want to turn a Jagmaster into the original Jazzmaster prototype one day, just for funz.

Love that Jazzmaster prototype, someone must have made one in the world ?

the pickups on the JM prototype look like jazz bass pickups. weren't they 7-pole? so yeah probably like the guitar version of jazz bass pickups.

Whut?

Bidding has ended on this item. The seller has relisted this item or one like this.

---1972 FENDER VINTAGE LUCITE PROTOTYPE ELECTRIC TELECASTER STRAT JAGUAR GUITAR
Item Ended
Item condition: --
Ended: Jun 29, 201218:24:35 PDT
Winning bid:
US $28,700.00 ( 20 bids )

So now...relisted at $28,999.99?

NickS wrote:Whut?

Bidding has ended on this item. The seller has relisted this item or one like this.

---1972 FENDER VINTAGE LUCITE PROTOTYPE ELECTRIC TELECASTER STRAT JAGUAR GUITAR
Item Ended
Item condition: --
Ended: Jun 29, 201218:24:35 PDT
Winning bid:
US $28,700.00 ( 20 bids )

So now...relisted at $28,999.99?

Non-paying auction winners - don't you just love 'em? "Sorry dude, but I won't be buying that geetar after all. My Mom just found out she needs a liver replacement procedure plus I got an unexpected garage bill, so no way can I raise the $28k as I'd thought to previously."

Standard eBay response to any kind of delay or non-payment:

"Was at a funeral sorry."