![]() ![]() Reranch sells this and a couple of cans will do the job. The original color was Desert Sand, the earliest version. Mine was the fattest, rawest, craziest stock Fender single coil I've ever heard. It could be full and fat, shrill and screechy, or somewhere in-between. The pickup can have the usual Fender 50s range of possible tones, as there was little consistency. Some really nice ones are out there, but only on examples that haven't been played vigorously or have been only fingerpicked. The anodized aluminum pickguard is pretty worn on this one, but that's what happens. The example you're looking at is missing the bridge cover, like most of them. I never got around to measuring the string spacing on mine. It uses Telecaster bridge hardware and the saddles are smooth steel. The bridge is a piece of heavy sheet metal bent into an L and drilled. It's a toploader bridge so you don't have the extra 1 3/4" of string-through factored into the string tension. 009-.042 set is nearly unplayable, as it's too easy to fret notes sharp with finger pressure. The 22 1/2" scale is pretty short and IMO a. I never measured the nut width on mine, but it felt narrow whether it actually was or not. Frets are slim, small, and vintage sized. It pays to have small hands and slim fingers if you do a lot of chording. The neck may have some depth to it, but the hard V can make it feel smaller in the hand, and these are small, short necks. These have a hard, hard, hard, V profile from just past the nut all the way to the heel. You absolutely need to play one of these before buying, if you've never played one. You can get replacement buttons from StewMac. Their freshness date expired long ago and many of them simply crumble, one day. Assume you'll need to replace the plastic tuner buttons eventually, if not now. I used to have a '57 Musicmaster and can say that 50s Musicmasters and Duo-Sonics are very different from the 25 1/2" scale Fenders.įrom headstock to strap pin, here's the rundown for a '56. That's partly why these discussions are helpful.instead of relying on one source (eBay or VGPG or George Gruhn or.) we pool our info and maybe make better choices.If you're wanting to explore the 50s and 60s Fenders, you're pointing toward Teles and Strats unless you really like the shortest scales. It's hard to account for there being so much vintage guitar info available that appears to by contradictory. i believe these have mohogany bodies as well, but at any rate, they are out there, its just that in the late 70's almost all of them were either white or black. seeing as how it was marketed as a student guitar. I have seen like 3-4 musicmasters that actually came in a semi transparent wine red sort of finish, very odd. 90 percent of the time it will come back as a 78. checking the serial number on a cbs era fender is pretty much worthless. even if a guide says its worth 4,000.00 bucks, doesn't mean anyone is going to pay more than 400.00Īnywho. just look on ebay to see what they are selling for. those pricing guides are pretty much worthless. The musicmaster II was exactly the same as the mustang, but no vibrato system. The early musicmasters had an A-width 22.5 scale neck, after 65 they were all 24 scale. Your info, i believe is a tad bit escued. I'd say the most important points are to know the neck scale you're buying and then to make sure you're not paying vintage price for a refin. Musicmaster II: $1,300 to $1.600 (red, white or blue) Not sure about all the pickguard options, but most had white pickguardsĪs for values, the 2010 Vintage Guitar Price Guide gave these values of Musicmasters in excellent condition:ġ964-69: $1,300 to $1,600 (red, white or blue)ġ970-80: $600 to $750 (red, white or blue) White or "blond" will often age to a pale yellow, especially if it spent time in lots of tobacco smoke. They came in Sunburst from 61 to 63, and in red, white (also called blond), or blue after that. After 69 the "II" designation was dropped and all Musicmasters after that are regular scale necksįrom 1956 to 1961 they came in Desert Sand, which often appears yellowed today (but look closely.an obvious yellow means it's been refinished and has lost 50% of its vintage value). There was a regular scale neck option, called the Musicmaster II, from 64 to 69. That short neck is for smaller people and is not very playable for most musicians. Most Musicmasters from 1956 - 1980 had a 3/4 neck, so that's something to check on. Okay, HSR, I'm not an expert but I do enjoy learning and here's what I found: What are the approximate values for '65 - '72 Musicmasters (its most likely one of those years), Looked to be in all around good shape, it was yellow in color with a black pickguard. The guy at the pawn shop claimed it to be a late 60s - early 70s. I forgot to get the serial number to date-check it, but it appeared to be a CBS era MM. ![]()
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