An All Original 1965 Burgundy Mist Fender Jazzmaster.

1965 Fender Jazzmaster.

This great surfing guitar weighs just 7.90 lbs. and has a contoured solid alder body. One-piece maple neck with a nut width of just under 1 11/16 inches, a scale length of 25 1/2 inches and a medium profile. Rosewood veneer fretboard with 21 original medium-thin frets and inlaid clay dot position markers. Large headstock with matching Burgundy Mist finish and decal with "Fender" logo in gold with black trim, "Jazzmaster" in black beside it, and "With Synchronized Floating Tremolo" and four patent numbers and one design number in black in three lines below it. "Offset Contour Body Pat. Pending" decal at the ball end of the headstock. Single "butterfly" string tree with nylon spacer. The neck is stamped "4 JAN 65B" Individual dual-line Kluson Deluxe tuners with oval metal buttons, each one stamped on the underside "D-169400 / Patent No." Four-bolt neck plate with serial number "L64402" between the top two screws. Two Jazzmaster pickups (large white rectangular six-polepiece pickups) with outputs of 8.02k and 8.75k. Three-layer (white/black/white) celluloid pickguard with thirteen screws. Two controls (master volume, master tone) plus three-way pickup selector switch and jack socket on the treble side of the pickguard, two roller knobs (volume, tone) plus two-way circuit selector (rhythm/lead) slide switch on the bass side of the pickguard. The potentiometers are stamped "137 6350" (CTS December, 1963) and "304 6508" (Stackpole February, 1965). White plastic 'Stratocaster' style control knobs. Jazzmaster bridge and integrated tailpiece and tremolo. This super rare custom color guitar is 100% original and it has been played a lot… there is some very fine finish checking on the body and the matching headstock face and a large area of surface wear on the back, approximately 4 x 4 inches where the paint is worn away. There are surface chips on the sides and the original frets show some signs of wear but the guitar certainly does not require a re-fret. Overall this great sounding and great playing Jazzmaster is in very strong (8.50+) condition and is priced less than half of what a fine, all original example would be. Complete with the original tremolo arm, the original Fender Jazzmaster Instruction manual, original Fender gray lead and even an original set (unused) of Fender 'Electric Spanish Guitar' strings in plastic case. Housed in the original Fender three-latch, cream rectangular hardshell case with black leather ends and dark orange plush lining (8.75).

Burgundy Mist Metallic was a color used by Oldsmobile in 1959. Fender used this color on their guitars for the years 1960-1965 only.

"The Jazzmaster first appeared in Fender sales material during 1958, and at some $50 more than the Strat it became the new top-of-the-line model...Immediately striking to the electric guitarist of 1958 was the Jazzmaster's unusual offset-waist body shape...For the first time on a Fender, the Jazzmaster featured a separate rosewood fingerboard glued to the customary maple neck...The Jazzmaster's floating vibrato system was new, too, and had a tricky 'lock-off' facility aimed at preventing tuning problems if a string should break. The controls were certainly elaborate for the time…A small slide-switch selected between two individual circuits, offering player-preset rhythm and lead sounds. The idea was a good one: the ability to set up a rhythm sound and a lead sound, and switch between them. But the system seemed over-complicated to players brought up on straightforward volume and tone controls. The sound of the Jazzmaster was richer and warmer than players were used to from Fender. The name Jazzmaster had not been chosen at random, for Fender was aiming this different tone at jazz players, who at the time largely preferred hollowbody electrics, and principally those by Gibson. However, jazz guitarists found little appeal in this new, rather difficult solidbody guitar -- and mainstream Fender players largely stayed with their Stratocasters and Telecasters" (Tony Bacon, 50 Years of Fender, p. 26). Much to Fender's surprise, however, the Jazzmaster turned into the best surf guitar ever conceived.