1965 Fender® Jazzmaster™

 

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  • Year: 1965
  • Manufacturer: Fender®
  • Model: Jazzmaster™
  • Case: GigBag
  • Color: sunburst lacquer
  • Condition: Excellent
  • Description: Fender® Jazzmaster™ Model Solid Body Electric Guitar (1965), made in Fullerton, California, serial # L76078, sunburst lacquer finish, alder body, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, gig bag case. This is an exceptionally nice "Early CBS" Fender® Jazzmaster™, built just a few months after Leo's company was sold into CBS corporate slavery! The neck date is April 1965; the typical appointments for that year include the bright, "tight" sunburst finish with little color blending, tortoise plastic (not nitro) laminated pickguard and neckplate with a later "L" series serial number. The rosewood fingerboard has pearl dot inlay but no binding, a combination only found only in 1965. A very fine 'transition era" guitar, not technically a Pre-CBS instrument but still with the superb feel and sound of a "real" Fender!Overall length is 41 in. (104.1 cm.), 14 in. (35.6 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 25 1/2 in. (648 mm.). Width of nut is 1 5/8 in. (41 mm.). Very clean, all original; finish bright and unfaded. Some dents into the finish on the back of the body, otherwise very little wear-a truly superb example. Plays and sounds extremely fine, one of the nicest of this era we have seen. Excellent + Condition.