Comments on: A Lost Fender Guitar Design – The ‘Acoustic-Electric’ of 1965 https://www.preservationsound.com/a-lost-fender-guitar-design-the-acoustic-electric-of-1965/ information and ideas about audio history Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:05:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Brad Rinkert https://www.preservationsound.com/a-lost-fender-guitar-design-the-acoustic-electric-of-1965/#comment-6540 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:53:31 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=2264#comment-6540 Fender made a lot more prototype models that never were produced than is generally known. Most buffs know of the Marauder, but there were probably a dozen others.

There was a Telecaster tenor guitar, and a similar instrument which had six strings in four courses, made for Eddie Peabody, a banjo vaudeville artist Leo Fender knew.

There also was at least one Strat with split pickups like the Musicmaster bass and a very different, longer top loading bridge.

I’ve seen pictures of all of these, in the possession of a music store owner who had several prototype Fenders-of more standard construction-behind his desk. They had ink Fender stamps under the lacquer neck finish stating they were property of the Fender Musical Instrument Co. He would not allow me to photograph these or any of the pictures and drawings he had. I have never seen any of these in the various Fender collector books.

]]> By: Michael Mason https://www.preservationsound.com/a-lost-fender-guitar-design-the-acoustic-electric-of-1965/#comment-2225 Wed, 04 May 2011 21:57:43 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=2264#comment-2225 Yes: in the mid-1970s I spent an hour or so playing a Fender “Palomino” model acoustic-electric in a small guitar shop near Los Angeles — think it was in Venice, CA.
Have always wished I’d bought it, though it had two drawbacks: didn’t sound great; was heavy. But good just the same. Bolt-on (and very nice) Fender neck; dreadnaught-type body-shape, slightly smaller than, say, a Gibson Hummingbird size, but full-depth . A_very_ innovative pick-up mount.
I think I recently noted that Fender was/is reviving at least one somewhat similar acoustic-electric model.

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