#Musicmaster guitar series

Neck Pickup: Player Series Alnico 2 Humbucking.

Bridge Pickup: Tex-Mex™ Single-Coil Strat®.

Includes custom neck plate engraved with The Shawn Mendes Foundation logo.įender®, Squier®, Stratocaster®, Telecaster®, Precision Bass®, Jazz Bass® and the distinctive headstock designs commonly found on the Strat®, Tele® & P Bass® guitars are registered trademarks of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation Specifications Push-pull tone control allows the neck pickup to be split for either humbucking or single-coil tones. Six-saddle string-through-body bridge for superior sustain and precise intonation Player humbucking and Tex-Mex Stratocaster pickups for a wide variety of tones. Timeless Fender comfort and tone with effortless playability Vivid floral graphics for unique and distinct appearance

Six-saddle string-through-body hardtail Strat® bridge with bent steel saddles.

Player Series Humbucking neck pickup and Tex-Mex Stratocaster® bridge pickup.

24” scale “C”-shaped maple neck with 9.5” Radius and 22 medium jumbo frets.

Alder body with vintage floral graphics.Adorned with a fan's rendition of a striking floral design, this highly personal take on the popular 60s short-scale model features an alder body, “C”-shaped maple neck with 9.5” radius, 22 medium jumbo frets and a unique single/hum pickup configuration, providing a wide range of Fender tones. The Shawn Mendes Foundation Musicmaster® is a unique combination of exquisite vintage art and classic Fender tone. Unlike the Duo Sonic, the neck pickup is a humbucker and the single coil is the bridge pickup.This is a PRE-ORDER listing, These will begin shipping in late September, 2020. It features 2 pickups, a single coil and a humbucker, and is the same as the 2020 Duo-Sonic other than the pickup configuration. In 2020, Fender released a special version of the Musicmaster for the Shawn Mendes Music Foundation. The Musicmaster was produced until 1982 when it, the Bronco and the Mustang were dropped in favor of the newer Fender Bullet models. This causes many modern surviving Musicmasters from this period to suffer from paint flaking off the body.

Certain models of the Musicmaster, especially from between 19, were finished with a coat that reacted negatively with the base coat. These larger pickguards encompassed the entire control cavity which saved production costs for Fender.

Later in the 70s the Musicmaster in its third incarnation was redesigned using the Bronco body and pickguard shapes. Around this same time the Fender Maverick was introduced using similar practices but with leftover Electric XII bodies and necks with Mustang bridges. In 1969, the Fender Swinger, a particularly interesting byproduct of this surplus was produced using the Musicmaster hardware, electrics, scratchplate, and the seldom ordered 22.5-inch necks, but with a modified Fender Bass V body. The Musicmaster in its second incarnation was still sold well into the 1970s however, using leftover parts until supplies ran out. The redesigned Musicmaster II alongside its stablemate the Duo-Sonic II lasted through 1969 before both models were dropped from production in favor of the more deluxe Mustang and new Fender Bronco. All three models were offered with the option of a 24-inch scale and 22-fret neck or a 22.5-inch scale and 21-fret neck the 24-inch scale proved to be the most popular of these options. The Mustang body was larger and slightly offset, and was fitted with a plastic pickguard but with the volume and tone controls mounted on a separate metal plate. In 1964, following the release of the Fender Mustang, both the Musicmaster and Duo-Sonic were redesigned using Mustang neck and body blanks. At this time, the Musicmaster and Duo-Sonic both received a plastic pickguard in place of the previous anodized aluminum one, and a two-piece maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard. There was one major redesign of these two Musicmaster-bodied guitars, in 1959 when the entire Fender catalog was updated. The Duo-Sonic and Musicmaster also shared a single-piece maple neck and fingerboard, with a 22.5 inch scale length and 21 frets. Production of the Musicmaster began in late April of that year, using a body routed for two pickups to be common to the Duo-Sonic, which followed a little more than two months later. Prototypes were made in early 1956, followed by sales literature announcing both models. Design work on the Musicmaster-and its two-pickup variant Duo-Sonic-began in late 1955 following a request from Fender Sales.