1965 Fender Mustang, Blue

A stunning Mustang finished in their best colour "Mustang blue." This one has aged beautifully with some eye catching blue/green hues to the colour as the clear coat has yellowed slightly over time.

This is a lesser-seen and more desirable slab-Rosewood fingerboard model. Besides being refretted it retains all of its original parts and all visible dates line up nicely. The neck has a very nice subtle flame to it, and the lacquer has aged to a beautiful amber colour while developing a nice smooth, worn feel players so often desire of vintage instruments. 

The headstock bears the correct Fender Mustang decal, with single string tree and the correct double-line Kluson tuners to the rear. The fingerboard is punctuated with the correct pearl dot markers and the guitar has been refretted with taller wire. Overall it plays very well indeed, with a medium C profile neck that thickens nicely heading towards the 12th fret. The refret is superb, there's plenty of height for bending, with no pitting, fret wear or fingerboard wear to speak of. The tremolo works nicely and holds tuning well too. 

Tonally the grey bottom single coils are punchy and are capable of producing everything from warm harmonically rich tones at the neck to more cutting bite at the bridge both of which retain clarity and a nice balance. The two slider switches provide excellent versatility with options verging on Strat territory.

Neck date stamp is Oct '65 corresponding nicely to the L9 serial number, week 42 of 1965 CTS pots, and ink-dated grey bottom pickups dating to August and Oct 1965. The Chrome hardware is all present and correct showing light wear commensurate with age. It retains a nicely mellowed pearloid 3-ply pickguard too, completing what is one of the nicer looking Mustangs we've had in a long time.

The Mustang offers golden era Fender quality of production and materials at a fraction of the price of most of it's catalogue stablemates. This is a fantastic example... We doubt it will hang around!

Comes in a non-original hard case.