When I was 14 my parents bought me a 64 strat for xmas, im 59 now and I still have the guitar and play it daily ,my parents have passed away in the last few yrs, I would never sell it for any reason, ive had it looked at for a value its worth around 14 to 20k, my wife wants me to sell amd pay off our house which has about 13 or 14k left on it ,but there is no way I will sell my strat for any reason ,one reason is i still play almost everyday I have other guitars but my strat is the most important because my parents got it for me to me its no amount of money my parents are gone now it the guitar has so much more value to me than money, great guitar mathew ,I would keep the guitar just the way it is play it, I bet it plays and sounds awesome with those pickups ,stay safe amd god bless
I think it's actually awesome when owners of vintage instruments like this one dismantle and document everything. I have no idea why anyone would not appreciate that.
In today's market, you HAVE TO... Could you imagine paying a large chunk of change for an "original" guitar, then find out later that something had been swapped or tampered with and you just lost your @$$. Granted, these should be bought to be played... but you don't wanna get ripped off
I like the detective aspect of your show. You going out and hunting down a vintage guitar and then learning more about what you purchased is part of the reason I tune into your show. Great job! Thanks for posting.
Much respect! Your knowledge of vintage Fenders is unparalleled. I enjoy learning about these wonderful instruments through you. Thank you and best wishes.
That's my favorite paint and wood combo on a fender, and with the tortoise guard... the best. The wear and damage to the paint makes it even better. Congrats on this amazing find.
As always, well done. You always try to get to the bottom of everything. This is a great learning experience for anyone that loves old guitars. I prefer Fender but appreciate them all. Thanks for buying and teaching about these wonderful instruments. I know it's very expensive and much appreciated.
Thanks for sharing! It looks original and complete to me. I hate how nit picky vintage guitar guys get about little details not "seeming" right and "devaluing" the guitar. I used to see it all the time on guitar forums and it drove me nuts. Some guy would want all the armchair guitar "experts" to weigh in on his vintage axe's authenticity. They would nit pick every little detail and put doubt into everything about it being real. "That lower bout curve seem too wide!" "The knob configuration seems off!" "Are those saddles original? They look funny!" "The headstock decal placement.. yadda yadda yadda!" Haha.. Yet we all know how hand crafted each guitar was and how it could be factory worker Mel's good or bad day. The varying neck widths and shapes. So unless it is Norman Harris or George Gruhn telling you it looks off I'd go with your gut feeling. I'm no expert at all, but it looks legit to me, so I'd say just enjoy it and play the heck out of it!
I'm not typically a proponent of the rip it apart type analysis, but in this case, it was worth the time and the detailed approach. Great job Matthew. You've got a beautiful guitar there.
Happy Holidays Matt! Thanks for this video. It’s great to see inside the guitar and get insight to its history. Appreciate you taking the time to produce and post them
I for one really like seeing them disassembled and documented this way. I would never have the chance to see it otherwise, so to me it's excellent content.
Love this type of content. Glad that this instrument has made it into the hands of someone who as passionate and knowledgeable as you Matthew. Not to mention a world class player. Keep rocking brother✌🏻
Thanks for showing us your guitar man, it was a learning experience for me too. I’m no expert but it looks legit , with the neck ,back plate and pots dating from the same year. Never having been into one of those, I was impressed by the thickness of the pick guard and its shielding. (Of all things,lol)
Everything looks up and up to me. The Color, pick ups, controls, pick guard, bridge, and also the neck all seem to be all original and a rare find. It’s amazing that you found it. Can’t wait to hear how she sounds. Anybody that would question the neck with that date code that’s ink stamped on this neck is being really picky. But if they see something that proves differently that you and all the other people aren’t seeing it’s not the original neck to the guitar. I don’t see that happening. The only reasonable and possible way that neck is not the original neck is if something was wrong with the original neck when the guitar was built and had to be replaced immediately by fender under warranty for the original owner.
Matthew, I completely enjooy your posts. I like how you fill in answers to questions like you did here. Your appreciation of things from my era (I'm 73) brings to mind guitar hunting when I was a teenager completely out of the buying market but not the wishing market. I had a Ventures guitar with a cheep 10amp amplifier. I was never any kind of a player and tried to rekindle that love at age 66. But my hands weren't having any part of it. I've since bought guitars that needed repair and given away once repaired and still have three of those. nothing special. Guess I can thank Gibson nd Fender for not addressing the issues of broken necks and cheep Aisian manufacture for my being able to get ahold of anything at all. I've decided to build my own manufacture (if you will) and have four body styles I'm presently working on. Your video's give me just enough info to encourage me to go out and try something not so much as replicating Gibson or Fender. Lesson learned though a guitar is hust a body of some type of fiber, aneck of sometype of fiber, strings, tuners, neck and bridge, if electic then pickups, switches and pots. not much new our there except shapes. Thank you for your willingness to share as you explore the life and history of the guitar past.
its legit, I don't see any "issues" with this guitar. everything about this guitar is normal for fender of that era. its a real gem play it and love it. a lot people know the "price" of things but don't know the VALUE of them. you win Matthew.
Really interesting! I think this will command a high price, purely on its apparent integrity and its rarity value. Nice one Matthew! Happy Christmas to you and all supporters of your wonderful channel. 🎶🎄✨🌟👍
Love the patina and the story. As you say, the way the pickguards warp is a massive part of the charm. Looks a great guitar and will suiot you very well.
I was stationed in the Air Force in Alaska in the mid 70's. I was in a popular band up there. The other guitar player was in the Army. He bought a 61 Jazzmaster from Army Salvage for $75. He stripped it and took it all apart. He didn't know what to do with it. In the process he ruined both pickups. I bought it from him for $75 in pieces. We didn't have places to repair pickups back then. Several years later, my cousin refinished the guitar in Black Lacquer. It came out gorgeous. I found a set of DiMarzio Cream color Humbuckers that fit perfectly. Back in those days you didn't keep several guitars like we do now. You had maybe 2 and one acoustic. So I sold that Jazzmaster. What a mistake, such a great guitar. I'd love to have a white one. I did have a couple more but they never sounded right. I had a 64 Candy Apple Red one but it just didn't sound good. Back in those days, again we didn't know how to make guitars sound better like we do now. Good Luck with that beauty and Merry Christmas.
Keep tearing into stuff! Love seeing what you find. Either way it's a keeper and a player which is really the only thing that matters IMO with vintage guitars. They're instruments for making music, not some kind of new currency.
Cool video I love anything fender, tho I am a drummer but still love guitars and play them also..i find interesting the disassemble of these guitars.. My brother also does the same with guitars.. He's also collects guitars and microphones
Funny to think there was a guy named Mel who sat at a soldering station for his 9-5. I wonder if he ever thought that a quickly scrawled set of initials would be poured over by tens or hundreds of thousands of people on the internet almost six decades later. I wonder what was going on in his life the day he wired this pick guard?
Loved the video Mathew! I’m not sure what the “issues” are with this particular Jazz Master as it looks like every thing is original as far as anyone but the original owner would or could know! Everything else looks just like a well used hard played 1965 Fender! Congratulations on finding this under appreciated gem 💎! Looking forward to your next video!
That might be the nicest rosewood fingerboard I've ever seen. I'd say that you can't prove the neck ISN'T original to the guitar. Therefore, by default, it IS the original neck.
Fab video Matthew, and I def. wouldn't disagree with your assessment. = My birth year @ '65 (and my ES-345SV too 😍). Definitely a brave man for 'going in' like that, but I'm sure she's safe in your hands. Peace... Bobby (UK).
Love that Jazzmaster. Verifying its authenticity is so important, not sure why people would be against this. Great video, love your vintage collection, some amazing guitars and amps!
Oh my. The end stamp. I need to pull the neck I've never pulled off my fretless p bass. It's got a decal on it so I always figured it was old enough that I wouldn't open it while it still played okay, but now I'm really curious to see if I can date/identify the neck; it's on a zebrawood Boogie Bodies body, which is a single slab of wood as far as I can tell, and I priced a bunch of necks that looked like they had decals on them and skimming them the neck was bare minimum worth over twice what I paid for the bass (which I never want to sell, I like it). I got my Rhodes for an order of magnitude under what they sell for now lol but both of those are heavy to lug around, regardless of how much I love them.
Congratulations on another vintage guitar Matthew, I think it's a good score. Don't stress about the neck, remember Blackie & Brownie. If I had a vintage Fender, I wouldn't care if the neck wasn't original, just so long as the electronics and body are.🤘👏🙏👍
I was so grateful for your authentication process and market value assessment. I don't blame you for never wanting to part with this rare piece of history.
RW goes to Rosewood. They've used Brazilian rosewood (jacarandá) at that time to make them. Some of the finest "acoustic woods", a rare material on bodies now, since is prohibited to commercialize Brazilian jacarandá since the mid 90's.
The neck looks authentic. The body doesn't show paint in the electronics area. When they are painted, the employee doesn't tape anything off. You might see some area of the neck pocket being sanded. Many have brass shielding in the pockets. You would see ground wires between the brass plates. Hardware looked OK. Player grade, You are good,
Just CooL!Apparently a lot of other people Think So Too!Cause I Gave Thumbs Up at 326,and at the end of this CooL Subject of Guitar History of this Jazzmaster,it was at 400!😮Take care!Love Vintage wired stuff cause that's what I do,with Custom looks!😃😎❣
I sure do miss the good ole days when working musicians could afford to play vintage instruments. No offense to Matt because I have been subbed for a few years and enjoy your content, but the reason people started to list at ever higher and unobtainable prices is the internet especially YT channels and Ebay/Reverb. Some guy decided sometime in 2011 that his grandfather's guitar was worth X to him and posted it and ignorantly people started thinking "Oh mine must be worth that too" they then put theirs for sale at that price until the fateful day that a guy with more money than sense paid the extortion money and we have all been fucked since, it gets worse yearly too. Especially anything old, not just music gear is priced way higher than its actual worth, much of it sits on Ebay for literally years with 50 watchers waiting for the owner to embrace common sense. For instance, I work on tube amps and radios, just a few years ago stuff like old PA amps and hi-fi stuff you could find locally for $25 to $50 in thrift stores, it was almost considered junk that no one wanted and now it's $250 to $500. Which is definitely not worth it especially when some douche states "Untested, As-Is, No Refunds" because you might spend $250 plus shipping and you get a rusty chassis with burnt transformers. So, I only buy locally now after proving there is some life in it. Vintage radios that I would buy for $5 a few years ago now local sellers will say, " I saw one just like this on Ebay for $200" It is frustrating trying to explain "asking price" does not = "what they will get" or what it is worth so I have to play this game where instead of them just selling it to me for a fair price I have to come back every few weeks and haggle until the price is reasonable. Dr's and Lawyers and such who buy trophy guitars for bragging rights are the worst at helping this alarming trend. I feel like it has peaked though or maybe plateaued, I keep thinking the prices have to crash eventually this system is unsustainable. Imagine if car prices quadrupled in 5 years, new car sales will eventually crash. Sorry for the rant but it is just a cool guitar, it is a tool for musicians to ply their trade, I don't get the concept of them as a collectable , I read not long ago people are buying vintage guitars as investment opportunities, can't wait until the market crashes.
It’s supply and demand. If I want vintage instruments, you want vintage instruments, and nearly everyone here wants vintage instruments, whoever has the most cash gets the vintage instruments.
Great video Matt... I not convinced you have to justify yourself to any cermugens who troll you. If you love it and you have the $$$ and it has the value and tone you want, well, we get to hear/see another great video! I have an early 60s melody maker that I'm told is worth anything i got it when i was 10... I'm 70 next year! Go figure... 😂
Great stuff as always. My question is: What difference does it make if the neck is "not original" to the body? It's a contemporary-to-the-body neck. It's a pretty cool find.
Wouldn’t be surprised if someone tried flipping it with a different neck before and keeping the original for another guitar it’s too nice and seems to all line up nicely, the rest is so original?
Iam new to guitar just started playing a few years ago really like you're videos i bought a site unseen guitar and amp 1964 Princeton and a1976 Gibson marauder from a widow woman her husband giged them they awesome lots of people don't like to Gibson it plays better than my prs keep up the good work
I don’t see many “issues” I wouldn’t think that finish wear would knock all that much off the value. Like you said the neck is period correct. Is it the original neck? Who knows but it’s the right neck. I just got a 59 jazzmaster with an A neck. Nut width about 1.5 inches. I usually don’t like narrow nuts but this one doesn’t bother me as much but I may put a custom shop neck on it at some point with a wide nut. Doubt if I’d ever find a 59 neck at a reasonable price but I’ll always hang on to the original. The pics of it with a different neck may have been one of the owners that they “swapped” at the time and then put the original back on for sale. Any old fender could be a partscaster and as long as it’s all period correct it would be hard to tell. Was it from the amigos show (old Guitarlington show?)
As a person who collected custom colored Strats and Jazzmasters, no question it’s correct. Jazzmasters,u like Strats, we’re not fooled with, also, the marble guard was used on Olympic white Jazzmasters, and at times on Strats…I’ve owned both…
It may be that the fretboard was so worn that it was replaced when the neck was re-fretted. That might explain the change of medullary. In that case the dating on the bridge-end of the neck indicates it's part of the original build. Replacing such a rare neck seems less likely.
That all looks original to me. Those pots are interesting looking, ive never seen the backs like that, looks like cts. But not sure without looking closer. Could be centralab. I have a old pot fetish, I take them apart and make them brand new again. I got cts from almost every era, and centralab aswell. Them old pots are magical. They keep the highs or treble without a treble bleed. Im working on rebuilding some old centralab right now.
I love Jazzmasters! Good find, Matthew. How does it play? How does it sound? Funny story, 1978, I found a blond Jazzmaster in Red Bank Music in NJ. It was mint! I had no idea of the year, but my recollection is dots with no binding. I always loved the blond finish with the reddish guard. It played nicely. Ready? $225. Honest. As a tech school student at that time, I had NO money. NONE! So, I walked away. Never forgot it tho. Good luck with yours!
The neck doesn't possess the same patina and wear vibe of the body but like you said these necks are interchangeable. This 6 string would be untouchable if it were owned by a legend and it was a verified original neck.
When I was 14 my parents bought me a 64 strat for xmas, im 59 now and I still have the guitar and play it daily ,my parents have passed away in the last few yrs, I would never sell it for any reason, ive had it looked at for a value its worth around 14 to 20k, my wife wants me to sell amd pay off our house which has about 13 or 14k left on it ,but there is no way I will sell my strat for any reason ,one reason is i still play almost everyday I have other guitars but my strat is the most important because my parents got it for me to me its no amount of money my parents are gone now it the guitar has so much more value to me than money, great guitar mathew ,I would keep the guitar just the way it is play it, I bet it plays and sounds awesome with those pickups ,stay safe amd god bless
Don't ever let her bully you into selling.
That's pretty sad that she would want you to sell something like that.
It's better to get a divorce than sell a loved one guitar.
Mmmm, Strat, Wife, House… possession is 9/10ths, you got the Strat & the Wife, so…… 😁🎸
Keep the guitar, ditch the wife ............... no, seriously.
I think you’re right on the money with your assessment. All the right clues are there. I love watching you tear into the history of vintage guitars. 🎸
thank you for watching!
I love when you tie the vintages apart and explain if it is pretty much a great find. Thanks for sharing
Thanks always my friend.
I think it's actually awesome when owners of vintage instruments like this one dismantle and document everything. I have no idea why anyone would not appreciate that.
In today's market, you HAVE TO... Could you imagine paying a large chunk of change for an "original" guitar, then find out later that something had been swapped or tampered with and you just lost your @$$.
Granted, these should be bought to be played... but you don't wanna get ripped off
I like the detective aspect of your show. You going out and hunting down a vintage guitar and then learning more about what you purchased is part of the reason I tune into your show. Great job! Thanks for posting.
Much respect! Your knowledge of vintage Fenders is unparalleled. I enjoy learning about these wonderful instruments through you. Thank you and best wishes.
Do I like these types of videos? Yes.
I listened to your album several times... very nice!
Great job Matthew!!!! Greetings from Italy 😎👍
That's my favorite paint and wood combo on a fender, and with the tortoise guard... the best. The wear and damage to the paint makes it even better. Congrats on this amazing find.
As always, well done. You always try to get to the bottom of everything. This is a great learning experience for anyone that loves old guitars. I prefer Fender but appreciate them all. Thanks for buying and teaching about these wonderful instruments. I know it's very expensive and much appreciated.
Thanks for sharing! It looks original and complete to me. I hate how nit picky vintage guitar guys get about little details not "seeming" right and "devaluing" the guitar. I used to see it all the time on guitar forums and it drove me nuts. Some guy would want all the armchair guitar "experts" to weigh in on his vintage axe's authenticity. They would nit pick every little detail and put doubt into everything about it being real. "That lower bout curve seem too wide!" "The knob configuration seems off!" "Are those saddles original? They look funny!" "The headstock decal placement.. yadda yadda yadda!" Haha.. Yet we all know how hand crafted each guitar was and how it could be factory worker Mel's good or bad day. The varying neck widths and shapes. So unless it is Norman Harris or George Gruhn telling you it looks off I'd go with your gut feeling. I'm no expert at all, but it looks legit to me, so I'd say just enjoy it and play the heck out of it!
I like seeing you dig into vintage guitars. Thank you.
I'm not typically a proponent of the rip it apart type analysis, but in this case, it was worth the time and the detailed approach. Great job Matthew. You've got a beautiful guitar there.
Happy Holidays Matt! Thanks for this video. It’s great to see inside the guitar and get insight to its history. Appreciate you taking the time to produce and post them
Happy Holidays my friend, glad you enjoyed.
I for one really like seeing them disassembled and documented this way. I would never have the chance to see it otherwise, so to me it's excellent content.
LOVE the dissasembly of vintage gear. You have a couple of really strong vids and this is another one of them. Keep it coming i say!
Another great find! I love the teardown videos, keep 'em coming.
Love this type of content. Glad that this instrument has made it into the hands of someone who as passionate and knowledgeable as you Matthew. Not to mention a world class player. Keep rocking brother✌🏻
Thanks for showing us your guitar man, it was a learning experience for me too. I’m no expert but it looks legit , with the neck ,back plate and pots dating from the same year. Never having been into one of those, I was impressed by the thickness of the pick guard and its shielding. (Of all things,lol)
Everything looks up and up to me. The Color, pick ups, controls, pick guard, bridge, and also the neck all seem to be all original and a rare find. It’s amazing that you found it. Can’t wait to hear how she sounds.
Anybody that would question the neck with that date code that’s ink stamped on this neck is being really picky. But if they see something that proves differently that you and all the other people aren’t seeing it’s not the original neck to the guitar. I don’t see that happening.
The only reasonable and possible way that neck is not the original neck is if something was wrong with the original neck when the guitar was built and had to be replaced immediately by fender under warranty for the original owner.
I love to see videos like this. Can’t afford any of them, but I’m always keen to learn the history details, & the nostalgia.
More of this type of video in the future. Love these deep dives into old guitars.
Matthew, I completely enjooy your posts. I like how you fill in answers to questions like you did here. Your appreciation of things from my era (I'm 73) brings to mind guitar hunting when I was a teenager completely out of the buying market but not the wishing market. I had a Ventures guitar with a cheep 10amp amplifier. I was never any kind of a player and tried to rekindle that love at age 66. But my hands weren't having any part of it. I've since bought guitars that needed repair and given away once repaired and still have three of those. nothing special. Guess I can thank Gibson nd Fender for not addressing the issues of broken necks and cheep Aisian manufacture for my being able to get ahold of anything at all. I've decided to build my own manufacture (if you will) and have four body styles I'm presently working on. Your video's give me just enough info to encourage me to go out and try something not so much as replicating Gibson or Fender. Lesson learned though a guitar is hust a body of some type of fiber, aneck of sometype of fiber, strings, tuners, neck and bridge, if electic then pickups, switches and pots. not much new our there except shapes. Thank you for your willingness to share as you explore the life and history of the guitar past.
Really enjoyed the video! Very interesting as always. Thank you! And that fretboard looks magnificent
its legit, I don't see any "issues" with this guitar. everything about this guitar is normal for fender of that era. its a real gem play it and love it. a lot people know the "price" of things but don't know the VALUE of them. you win Matthew.
Great video & guitar. Merry Christmas everyone!
Really interesting! I think this will command a high price, purely on its apparent integrity and its rarity value.
Nice one Matthew! Happy Christmas to you and all supporters of your wonderful channel. 🎶🎄✨🌟👍
Nice video! Would love to see the reassembly of the guitar aswell as some playing before or afterwards!
I absolutely enjoy looking "under the hood" content from you!
Love the patina and the story. As you say, the way the pickguards warp is a massive part of the charm. Looks a great guitar and will suiot you very well.
I always learn something new when i watch your videos,thank you.
Glad it all checked out! Congrats! What a great guitar.
I was stationed in the Air Force in Alaska in the mid 70's. I was in a popular band up there. The other guitar player was in the Army. He bought a 61 Jazzmaster from Army Salvage for $75. He stripped it and took it all apart. He didn't know what to do with it. In the process he ruined both pickups. I bought it from him for $75 in pieces. We didn't have places to repair pickups back then. Several years later, my cousin refinished the guitar in Black Lacquer. It came out gorgeous. I found a set of DiMarzio Cream color Humbuckers that fit perfectly. Back in those days you didn't keep several guitars like we do now. You had maybe 2 and one acoustic. So I sold that Jazzmaster. What a mistake, such a great guitar. I'd love to have a white one. I did have a couple more but they never sounded right. I had a 64 Candy Apple Red one but it just didn't sound good. Back in those days, again we didn't know how to make guitars sound better like we do now. Good Luck with that beauty and Merry Christmas.
Super interesting man, thanks for sharing....love seeing all that amazing history. Only thing missing is some of your tasty playing in this one! :)
Keep tearing into stuff! Love seeing what you find. Either way it's a keeper and a player which is really the only thing that matters IMO with vintage guitars. They're instruments for making music, not some kind of new currency.
Dude this is my perfect xmas gift, a matthew scott new video!!!
Cool video I love anything fender, tho I am a drummer but still love guitars and play them also..i find interesting the disassemble of these guitars.. My brother also does the same with guitars.. He's also collects guitars and microphones
Great video; I would have really liked to hear it either before or after!
Hey man! Merry Christmas and all that and thanks for another great vid. ✌️
Great informative video! I don’t know anything about guitars…you explain stuff so well! I enjoy the tear down!!
Why would anyone hate this? It's great content!
Its player grade. Whatta ya gonna do. Dig into it, play it, love it. So few of these guitars are show pieces. It was made to be played. Great video.
Funny to think there was a guy named Mel who sat at a soldering station for his 9-5. I wonder if he ever thought that a quickly scrawled set of initials would be poured over by tens or hundreds of thousands of people on the internet almost six decades later. I wonder what was going on in his life the day he wired this pick guard?
Loved the video Mathew! I’m not sure what the “issues” are with this particular Jazz Master as it looks like every thing is original as far as anyone but the original owner would or could know! Everything else looks just like a well used hard played 1965 Fender! Congratulations on finding this under appreciated gem 💎! Looking forward to your next video!
An excellent assessment of a wonderful piece of history, keep up the good work Matthew and thanks for sharing 🎸🤠👍PEACE
That might be the nicest rosewood fingerboard I've ever seen. I'd say that you can't prove the neck ISN'T original to the guitar. Therefore, by default, it IS the original neck.
Fab video Matthew, and I def. wouldn't disagree with your assessment. = My birth year @ '65 (and my ES-345SV too 😍). Definitely a brave man for 'going in' like that, but I'm sure she's safe in your hands. Peace... Bobby (UK).
Looks cool, I always learn something from your teardowns.
If the neck isn’t original to the guitar, bravo to the prior owner for hunting that beauty down. Enjoy!
I like these type of videos, checking the originality of the guitar. 👌
Thank you, another great guitar find! Merry Christmas!! 😊
Cool guitar, Merry Christmas to all !!
Wow! Thank you for a great post.
Love that Jazzmaster. Verifying its authenticity is so important, not sure why people would be against this. Great video, love your vintage collection, some amazing guitars and amps!
Great video, Matthew! I really do enjoy watching guitars being taken apart for ID purposes.
Ah, finally the teardown. Nice.
Thanks for another great video.
Oh my. The end stamp. I need to pull the neck I've never pulled off my fretless p bass. It's got a decal on it so I always figured it was old enough that I wouldn't open it while it still played okay, but now I'm really curious to see if I can date/identify the neck; it's on a zebrawood Boogie Bodies body, which is a single slab of wood as far as I can tell, and I priced a bunch of necks that looked like they had decals on them and skimming them the neck was bare minimum worth over twice what I paid for the bass (which I never want to sell, I like it). I got my Rhodes for an order of magnitude under what they sell for now lol but both of those are heavy to lug around, regardless of how much I love them.
Great Matthew. Hope you can bond with the Jazzmaster. 🍀
Glad you took it apart and got to know it. Beautiful guitar. Looks legit to me. I thought maybe the word in the bridge was the name Fillipe.
Merry Christmas Matthew. I hope you have a great New Year!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you as well!
Congratulations on another vintage guitar Matthew, I think it's a good score. Don't stress about the neck, remember Blackie & Brownie.
If I had a vintage Fender, I wouldn't care if the neck wasn't original, just so long as the electronics and body are.🤘👏🙏👍
Not original but has 100% of the signs of being late 65 like the rest of the guitar is far fetched.
Regardless of anything....Just gorgeous!!!
I was so grateful for your authentication process and market value assessment. I don't blame you for never wanting to part with this rare piece of history.
Incredible guitar
RW goes to Rosewood. They've used Brazilian rosewood (jacarandá) at that time to make them. Some of the finest "acoustic woods", a rare material on bodies now, since is prohibited to commercialize Brazilian jacarandá since the mid 90's.
You can really hear that Brazilian rosewood fingerboard!
Love the video and the guitar ! Thanks Matt !
Nice get n go and turned out awesome❤
The neck looks authentic. The body doesn't show paint in the electronics area. When they are painted, the employee doesn't tape anything off. You might see some area of the neck pocket being sanded. Many have brass shielding in the pockets. You would see ground wires between the brass plates. Hardware looked OK. Player grade, You are good,
Killer vid ,really love seeing the vintage archaeology on these instruments
Another great video.
Just CooL!Apparently a lot of other people Think So Too!Cause I Gave Thumbs Up at 326,and at the end of this CooL Subject of Guitar History of this Jazzmaster,it was at 400!😮Take care!Love Vintage wired stuff cause that's what I do,with Custom looks!😃😎❣
I think i can speak for everyone here tnat we all love to watch someone dismantle a vintage guitar..... that's not ours!😅
Can't wait to hear this one Matthew!
Awesome! More videos like this!
I sure do miss the good ole days when working musicians could afford to play vintage instruments. No offense to Matt because I have been subbed for a few years and enjoy your content, but the reason people started to list at ever higher and unobtainable prices is the internet especially YT channels and Ebay/Reverb. Some guy decided sometime in 2011 that his grandfather's guitar was worth X to him and posted it and ignorantly people started thinking "Oh mine must be worth that too" they then put theirs for sale at that price until the fateful day that a guy with more money than sense paid the extortion money and we have all been fucked since, it gets worse yearly too. Especially anything old, not just music gear is priced way higher than its actual worth, much of it sits on Ebay for literally years with 50 watchers waiting for the owner to embrace common sense. For instance, I work on tube amps and radios, just a few years ago stuff like old PA amps and hi-fi stuff you could find locally for $25 to $50 in thrift stores, it was almost considered junk that no one wanted and now it's $250 to $500. Which is definitely not worth it especially when some douche states "Untested, As-Is, No Refunds" because you might spend $250 plus shipping and you get a rusty chassis with burnt transformers. So, I only buy locally now after proving there is some life in it. Vintage radios that I would buy for $5 a few years ago now local sellers will say, " I saw one just like this on Ebay for $200" It is frustrating trying to explain "asking price" does not = "what they will get" or what it is worth so I have to play this game where instead of them just selling it to me for a fair price I have to come back every few weeks and haggle until the price is reasonable. Dr's and Lawyers and such who buy trophy guitars for bragging rights are the worst at helping this alarming trend. I feel like it has peaked though or maybe plateaued, I keep thinking the prices have to crash eventually this system is unsustainable. Imagine if car prices quadrupled in 5 years, new car sales will eventually crash. Sorry for the rant but it is just a cool guitar, it is a tool for musicians to ply their trade, I don't get the concept of them as a collectable , I read not long ago people are buying vintage guitars as investment opportunities, can't wait until the market crashes.
It’s supply and demand. If I want vintage instruments, you want vintage instruments, and nearly everyone here wants vintage instruments, whoever has the most cash gets the vintage instruments.
Great video Matt... I not convinced you have to justify yourself to any cermugens who troll you. If you love it and you have the $$$ and it has the value and tone you want, well, we get to hear/see another great video! I have an early 60s melody maker that I'm told is worth anything i got it when i was 10... I'm 70 next year! Go figure... 😂
Incredible find.
I like to see vintage guitars documented. I tend to agree with your assessment 👍
I fucking love these videos man, keep it up
What a truly beautiful guitar!
Great stuff as always.
My question is: What difference does it make if the neck is "not original" to the body? It's a contemporary-to-the-body neck.
It's a pretty cool find.
👌 perfect perhsps 🎸
Had no doubts.
Nice find!
Wouldn’t be surprised if someone tried flipping it with a different neck before and keeping the original for another guitar it’s too nice and seems to all line up nicely, the rest is so original?
Issues? Something wrong? What issues? Original body + original neck = original guitar.
Love it all !
Iam new to guitar just started playing a few years ago really like you're videos i bought a site unseen guitar and amp 1964 Princeton and a1976 Gibson marauder from a widow woman her husband giged them they awesome lots of people don't like to Gibson it plays better than my prs keep up the good work
Nice guitar!
I don’t see many “issues” I wouldn’t think that finish wear would knock all that much off the value. Like you said the neck is period correct. Is it the original neck? Who knows but it’s the right neck. I just got a 59 jazzmaster with an A neck. Nut width about 1.5 inches. I usually don’t like narrow nuts but this one doesn’t bother me as much but I may put a custom shop neck on it at some point with a wide nut. Doubt if I’d ever find a 59 neck at a reasonable price but I’ll always hang on to the original. The pics of it with a different neck may have been one of the owners that they “swapped” at the time and then put the original back on for sale. Any old fender could be a partscaster and as long as it’s all period correct it would be hard to tell. Was it from the amigos show (old Guitarlington show?)
I think it's cool when you dive in to a guitar to solve the mysteries. You know what you're doing so it's not like you're doing any damage.
As a person who collected custom colored Strats and Jazzmasters, no question it’s correct. Jazzmasters,u like Strats, we’re not fooled with, also, the marble guard was used on Olympic white Jazzmasters, and at times on Strats…I’ve owned both…
love this
It may be that the fretboard was so worn that it was replaced when the neck was re-fretted. That might explain the change of medullary. In that case the dating on the bridge-end of the neck indicates it's part of the original build. Replacing such a rare neck seems less likely.
That all looks original to me. Those pots are interesting looking, ive never seen the backs like that, looks like cts. But not sure without looking closer. Could be centralab. I have a old pot fetish, I take them apart and make them brand new again. I got cts from almost every era, and centralab aswell. Them old pots are magical. They keep the highs or treble without a treble bleed. Im working on rebuilding some old centralab right now.
Cool effect around the 1:37 mark, where the Fender logo on the headstock morphs into the Fender logo on your shirt.
Sweet lol
Nice
Keep it and play it. 👍
man, that neck is to die for .. . wowza.
Something about a white Fender guitar, has that iconic look and sound 👀 People pay extra money for that relic wear on the guitar
I love ur channel
its a cool guitar, great video.
I love Jazzmasters! Good find, Matthew. How does it play? How does it sound? Funny story, 1978, I found a blond Jazzmaster in Red Bank Music in NJ. It was mint! I had no idea of the year, but my recollection is dots with no binding. I always loved the blond finish with the reddish guard. It played nicely. Ready? $225. Honest. As a tech school student at that time, I had NO money. NONE! So, I walked away. Never forgot it tho. Good luck with yours!
The neck doesn't possess the same patina and wear vibe of the body but like you said these necks are interchangeable. This 6 string would be untouchable if it were owned by a legend and it was a verified original neck.