1966 Fender® Electric XII

$8,950.00

  • Year: 1966
  • Manufacturer: Fender®
  • Model: Electric XII
  • Case: Original Hard
  • Color: Charcoal Frost
  • Condition: Near Mint
  • Description: This super rare 'Charcoal Frost Metallic' custom color twelve-string guitar weighs just 8.40 lbs. and has a nut width of just over 1 5/8 inches, a very comfortable medium neck profile and a scale length of 25 1/2 inches. Solid alder body, maple neck, and veneer rosewood fretboard with 21 frets and inlaid pearl dot position markers. "Hockey-stick" headstock in matching Charcoal Frost Metallic. One eight-hole "bracket" string guide. Six-on-a-side Fender® "F" tuners with octagonal metal buttons. The neck is dated "12 APR 66 B". Two powerful black split single-coil pickups with outputs of 8.82k and 8.38k. Three-layer plastic pickguard with seventeen screws. Fender® twelve-saddle combined bridge/tailpiece. There are two 'additional' screws and washers on the face of the body just below the tailpiece. We cannot explain why these were fitted - but from a 1988 photograph (included) of this guitar - we can see that they were certainly there at that time and quite possibly from the factory in 1966. This super rare custom color twelve-string is in as near mint (9.25) condition as one could ever wish for. Original Fender® black hardshell case with orange plush lining (9.00). (01180)