1966 FenderThinline Telecaster Custom Prototype – Wildwood Green
This 1966 Fender Custom Telecaster Thinline in Wildwood Green is certainly not like anything we’ve seen before! This was made during Fender’s experimental period in the mid to late 1960s and is technically a prototype of the Thinline Telecaster design that would appear a few years later. As with most other models of this time, this guitar was most likely made in the R&D dept by Phil Kubicki and/or Roger Rossmeisl. The guitar features a Wildwood Green front and back, with Sherwood Green Metallic painted along the edges. The neck has the larger “CBS” style headstock without a logo, block inlays, and a fully finished fretboard. The pickguard has been hand-cut for this body, and the bridge is a combination of a cut-off Telecaster bridge holding the bridge pickup and a Mustang tremolo. This incredible piece of Fender history has been mentioned in years past in Guitar Player Magazine in April of 1992, and also shown in George Gruhn and Walter Carter’s book “Electric Guitars and Basses: A Photographic History.” This guitar is fully original, aside from one professionally replaced fret (3rd).
We also wrote a blog post featuring this guitar and a few other Fender Oddities, read that here!
Overall Condition: 7.5, playwear throughout, fade
Specifications:
- Finish Details: Wildwood Green, Original, Good Condition with playwear and marks throughout, even fade,repaired small crack by treble side F-hole
- Body Material: Dyed Beechwood
- Neck Material: Maple
- Fretboard Material: Rosewood (Veneer)
- Neck Profile: Medium C
- Weight: 5 lbs 15 oz
- Scale Length: 25-1/2"
- Pickup Readings: N: 7.43K B: 6.11K
- Electronics: Original, Untouched
- Hardware: Good Condition, Original, some light wear and patina
- Nut Width: 1-5/8"
- Includes: Early 70s Fender Strat Black Hardshell Case with Orange Lining and flower stickers, copy of Guitar Player Magazine
Sku: F311
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