FENDER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION, CORONA, CALIFORNIA, 1995 & 1996
FENDER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION, CORONA, CALIFORNIA, 1995 & 1996
FENDER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION, CORONA, CALIFORNIA, 1995 & 1996
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FENDER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION, CORONA, CALIFORNIA, 1995 & 1996

A COMPOSITE SOLID-BODY ELECTRIC GUITAR, CUSTOM SHOP AMERICAN CLASSIC STRATOCASTER BODY AND PROTOTYPE NECK FOR JEFF BECK, BY J.W. BLACK

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FENDER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION, CORONA, CALIFORNIA, 1995 & 1996
A COMPOSITE SOLID-BODY ELECTRIC GUITAR, CUSTOM SHOP AMERICAN CLASSIC STRATOCASTER BODY AND PROTOTYPE NECK FOR JEFF BECK, BY J.W. BLACK
The logo Fender STRATOCASTER / WITH SYNCHRONIZED TREMOLO and ORIGINAL / Contour / Body at the headstock and JB 18 / JW Black with Fender logo and PROTO on the reverse, the neckplate stamped CN401987 / Custom Shop / USA with Fender logo, together with a Fender hard-shell case and tremolo bar
Length of body 15 ¾ in. (40 cm.)

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This Stratocaster neck was originally built by former Fender Custom Shop Founding Master Builder J.W. Black in 1996 as part of a prototype “Double Whammy” Strat with a 'double point' tremolo, where the tremolo arm could be slotted in on either side of the bridge. Evidently, the Double Whammy was not a successful experiment as the guitar had been smashed by 1999, leaving the body broken, the neck detached and a loose prototype bridge - effectively two halves of a left-handed and a right-handed bridge soldered together. The neck was undamaged and put to use on another guitar - a stock white Strat body. Whilst Beck preferred to play plain maple-headed guitars live, the playing wear to the pickguard of this curly maple-headed guitar testifies that it saw extensive home use.

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