1963 Fender® Jazzmaster™

$3,299.99

  • Year: 1963
  • Manufacturer: Fender®
  • Model: Jazzmaster™
  • Case: Original Hard
  • Color: White
  • Condition: Excellent
  • Description: 1963 Fender® Jazzmaster™ neck, tuning keys, nut, pickguard, neck plate, and all electronics including pickups and pots, on a later 60's Fender® Jazzmaster™ body that's been refinished. Comes with the original 60's Fender® hard shell case. Details: 14 1/2" lower bout width, 17 1/2" body length from neck heel to lower strap button, 1 5/8" body depth, 25 1/2" scale length, 1 5/8" nut width that tapers to 2" at the 12th fret. Weighs 8 pounds flat. Materials: (Most likely) Alder body, 1-piece bolt-on Maple neck, Rosewood fingerboard, 21 frets, clay dot inlays, tortoise/w/b/w celluloid pickguard, bone nut. Hardware: Enclosed nickel Kluson style-tuning keys, dual single-coils in white pickup covers, 3-way pickup selector on upper treble bout, nickel floating tremolo and bridge with individual bridge saddles, master volume and tone controls, with secondary master and tone roller knobs on bass side of pickguard and an on/off switch. Brief History: First introduced in 1958 with chrome plated barrel knobs, only on early models, and an anodized aluminum pickguard which was replaced with a tortoise shell pickguard in 1959. A few early models had black pickup covers and was switched overall in 1977. Were last produced in 1980, until Fender® reintroduced the model in 1996 as a, made in Japan, '62 Jazzmaster™ reissue. Cosmetics: Due to the fact the body and neck are from 2 separate eras, where the neck meets the body there is a gap about the thickness of a quarter on the bass side of the neck. The body was refinished long ago. The neck has the original finish. Has chips and dings on the top, back, and edges of the body from being played, one major chip on the bass side of the neck pocket. The pickguard, over the years and do to the material, has shrunk a little to the point that a small part of the cavity is exposed on the bass side upper bout of the body. Had a Roland synth pickup installed at one point, which left a screw sized hole on the pickguard in between the bridge and bridge pickup. As well as a screw hole in the body, bass side of the pickguard, that has since been capped. The bodies finish has finish checking on the top and back. The back of the neck has finish checking as well, runs parallel with the frets and stops at the headstock. The body's seam lines are visible through finish on the bass side body wing. The frets are in good shape with average playing wear up to the 7th fret. Playability: Slim C neck profile. Setup with 10-46 strings 6/64 on the bass side and 5/64 on treble side. Has no scratchy pots or pickup selector.