1959 Fender® Jazzmaster™

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  • Year: 1959
  • Manufacturer: Fender®
  • Model: Jazzmaster™
  • Case: Original Hard
  • Color: Blonde
  • Condition: Excellent
  • Description: 1959-60 Fender® Jazzmaster™, blonde finish, ash body, GOLD hardware. 100% all original. Exceptionally rare with the original hard shell case. Select the tab titled 1959-60 Mary Kaye Jazzmaster™ to see a short video showing this beautiful and rare Jazzmaster! Details: 15 1/4" lower bout width, 17 5/8" body length from neck pocket to lower strap button, 1 9/16" body depth, 1 5/8" nut width that tapers out to 2" at 12th fret, 25 1/2" scale length, weighs 8 pounds 3 ounces. Materials: Contoured body with offset waists, 1-piece Swamp Ash body, bolt-on 1-piece Maple neck, Rosewood fingerboard, 21 frets, clay dot inlays, 13 screw tortoise shell/w/b/w pickguard, 2 white plastic stratocaster-style control knobs, white rectangular pickup covers, bone nut, mary kaye finish. Hardware: All gold hardware, Kluson Deluxe 6-in-line tuning keys, floating tremolo and bridge with patent pending on tremolo and lock button and individual bridge saddles, 2 Jazzmaster™ pickups with master volume and master tone controls on treble side lower pickguard, 3-way pickup selector on treble side upper pickguard, rhythm roller-knobs for volume and tone on bass side upper pickguard and 2-way switch, strap buttons, string tree for B and high E string, tremolo arm with white plastic tip, bridge cover. Brief History: First introduced in mid 1958 and featured chrome-plated hardware, an anodized aluminum pickguard, and finished in sunburst yet custom colors were available. "Custom Colored guitars were produced during this period of time. Fiesta Red, Blonde, metallic Gold, San Marino blue, and other 1950's colors were used. Blonde guitars featured ash bodies. Rarely a guitar will even feature gold hardware. All custom color guitars from this period are fairly rare compared to other periods of time in the models life. They are the most desirable Jazzmaster’s to collectors due to their rarity". In 1959, the aluminum pickguard was dropped and replaced with the tortoise shell celluloid pickguard. Many changes occurred through the years of production; bound fingerboard in '65, block inlays by mid '66, black pickup covers in '77, until the model was discontinued in 1980. Only 16 years later, was reintroduced as the '62 Jazzmaster™ which is still in production today. Cosmetics: The body has finish checking all over but is heavier on the lower bout. The edges of the body have bumps and dings and chips in the finish, most are minor except on the treble side lower bout edge where it looks like it took a bonk and chipped a chunk of finish away. The back of the body has some buckle rash that breaks the finish. The back of the neck shows some signs of play, the finish has worn away on the treble side of the neck where the fingerboard joins the neck. The back of the headstock has light finish checking. On the lower treble side bout, there's impressions from a coil-cord that reacted with the finish from being stored underneath the guitar for an extended period of time. The frets barely show any playing wear. Has minor bumps on the top of the headstock. The gold-plating on the strap buttons, bridge cover, edges of the neckplate, and tuning key buttons has faded some but are still visibly gold.