The color is a custom color, pretty sure it is daphine blue, and it has aged through the years to a nice minty sort of blue-green. As you can see, it has gold hardware, including the fender-mute which has been removed. (its in the case) Hard to estimate the value of this guitar, because the custom-color fenders are quite rare, and the addition of the gold hardware makes this guitar practically one of a kind. I give this finish a 7/10, and for its age (45 yrs + !!!) its one of the best I've seen. It has its original case which is in good condition.

Since this is a guitar with obvious vintage value, I will give more gorey details ...

I am not the original owner, but have had this guiter since about 1985, picked it up in Seattle Wa. This guitar absolutely sings, and I have used it through the years for live, and recording situations. Amped up, there is nothing like it. So, electrically it is not quite original, I replaced the main volume pot at some point, and as well work has been done to the rhythm pick-up. Right now that pickup is misbehaving again, but I am not going to go near it. There is either a short in the pick-up, or some problem with the rhythm electronics on the upper bout of the guitar. The pickups both have the original gold jag-holders. The neck is 1-aug-63 B, and there are markings under the pickguard that the custom color was #3764. I've never looked that up. The guitar is quite payable still, the fretboard is worn but not rutted, and the frets in good shape. The only other oddity about this guitar is that an extra string-tree was added at some point. When I first acquired this guitar, I contacted Fender and they (John Page) were nice enough to send me a gold plated tree to fix that up.

So I don't know how to sell this other than to say 'make me an offer'. I know that for the money a super-detailed examination is part of the deal, so that will have to be worked out. I went through this with a dakota-red strat I used to own, so I can appreciate the concerns. I think you will find this to be an excellent near-perfect example of an early Fender, and with the gold hardware, almost one of a kind.

Bruce

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