1957 FENDER MUSICMASTER SERIAL

Some browsing around the Fender section of the Price Guide can definitely help you find which model you have. This can be a tall order for someone less versed in guitar history, but we do have some resources here on Reverb to help you out.įor starters, there's the Reverb Price Guide which has thousands of entries with pictures and details on various guitars and other gear. Perhaps the best place to start when dating your Fender is to get an approximate idea of the era based on the instrument's design and components. Once you have the information you need, if you're interested in selling your Fender, you can use Reverb to get it in front of the largest audience of musicians in the world by clicking on this link.

1957 FENDER MUSICMASTER SERIAL

Instead, the best approach to dating a Fender is to combine indicators from the design of the instrument, the dates found on the neck and body, along with the serial number. This also means that various parts used on a particular guitar may have come from different points in time, so no single number can absolutely define when the instrument was built. Features like bolt-on necks and pickups wired into the pickguard all helped the Fender factory churn out guitar after guitar, day after day. His guitars were built en masse by an entire factory, not a single luthier toiling over one instrument at a time. Like Henry Ford, part of Leo Fender's genius was in optimizing the company's production efficiency. 3-month warranty included.The most important thing to keep in mind when dating a Fender is the highly modular nature of the designs. The pickup has original winds and unbroken solder. The tone pot dates to the 25th week of 58, the volume pot date is covered in solder but theres no evidence of the solder being broken so i'm confident that its original to the guitar. This guitar has been set up in our workshop with a fresh set of Ernie Ball Super Slinky strings and a medium-low action. All hardware and electronics are in good working order including the truss rod which works correctly. The frets are in good condition having been dressed in our workshop and still have plenty of life left in them. Everything remains structurally sound with no breaks or repairs. The neck and fretboard also exhibit play-wear but nothing to detract from the playability of the instrument. There is light lacquer checking throughout the finish and numerous small scuffs and dings as well as some arm wear on the edge of the upper bout and the initials of the nephew of the original owner. It's an amazing guitar to play and it sounds fantastic.

The simple volume & tone controls allow for a no-frills approach to guitar playing. It has a maple neck and fingerboard with plastic button Kluson tuners. The anodized gold pickguard which nicely compliments the Desert Sand finish has the pots and pickup mounted to it.

It's a short scale (22.5') guitar with a C profile neck. Released in 1956 as a student model these guitars along with the Duo Sonic became the starting point for many young guitarists. With the exception of the missing bridge cover it's all original and complete including the brown case.

1957 fender musicmaster