And when you’re researching your purchase or just reading about Fender history, you’ll run across different terms describing the headstock logos that have appeared on various Fender instruments over the decades. Two of the most common such term are “spaghetti logo” and “transition logo.” W...
As the 50th anniversary of the Telecaster approached, the Fender Custom Shop celebrated by introducing a limited edition run of 50 Leo Fender Broadcaster models in 2000 that featured Leo Fender’s signature on the headstock in place of the standard logo. That year also saw the introduction of t...
1972 Fender Montego designed by Roger RossmeislDuring Rossmeisl’s time designing for Fender he also designed the lesser known Fender Montego, a jazz box style guitar which shares the Coronado’s fixed F tailpiece; and the 1967 Fender Wildwood which shares the Stratocaster headstock.Fender Montego i...
Gear History When the Jazzmaster was introduced in 1958, it became Fender’s top-of-the-line electric solidbody. For the first time on a Fender, it featured a separate rosewood fingerboard, a bigger headstock, an exaggerated offset body shape, and large flat single-coils linked to multiple ...
The addition to the headstock typography would be a simple ‘Squier Series’ logo on the tip. The other wording would remain as on the other Fender Japan models. The Squier name itself was conveniently to hand as one that Fender already owned – since CBS acquired the VC Squier string-makin...
from building the first mass-produced solidbody electric guitars and basses in the 1950s to creating some of the most influential amplifier designs in history, it's no wonder why fender is one of the biggest names in the business. as one of the world's largest fender dealers, we ...
These sported a chrome Fender Logo on the headstock and many of the Plus features, like locking tuners, LSR Nut, but had 2 Fender Noiseless Strat pickups and Fender’s Cobalt humbucker in the bridge which are powerful and very quiet. They carry the DN or DZ serial numbers. (DN9xxxx = ...
Adorning the headstock alongside the familiar logo of the big F is Nile’s own signature, with a set of Sperzel locking tuners and the Chic logo on the reverse. The look is completed by a stamped neck plate that reads ‘The Hitmaker’. In use Unlike the old Custom Shop version of ...
The double-letter serial number was also used on the Squier “SQ” numbers. The Squier models came from a different division of Fender than the Stats and Teles, so the Squiers did not have the Fender logo on the headstock. Fender only made the JV and SQ guitars for two years, so of ...
“transition” logo headstock decal, pearl fingerboard dots instead of clay, a white plastic pickguard instead of mintgreen, and “gray bottom” pickups (instead of black). Our custom configuration of that year’s model, the Time Machine 1964 Stratocaster Journeyman Relic, has been modified ...