{"product_id":"fender-electric-xii-12-string-solid-body-electric-guitar-1966-7227","title":"Fender Electric XII 12 String Solid Body Electric Guitar (1966)","description":"Fender Electric XII Model 12 String Solid Body Electric Guitar (1966), made in Fullerton, California, serial # 134286, sunburst lacquer finish, alder body, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, original black tolex hard shell case. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \"Electric XII\" is perhaps not one of Fender's best-remembered creations but is a great sounding and extremely practical guitar. Introduced at the 1965 NAMM Show at the dawn of the CBS era the Fender 12-string married the popular Jaguar\/Jazzmaster style body to a new neck with a distinctive extended \"hockey stick\" headstock. The electronics are unique as well with two pickups each with two separate coil units, as pioneered by the Precision Bass, and a 4-way selector setup allowing different phase combinations. The bridge is beautifully engineered, with 12 intonation-adjustable saddles and must be considered the best unit of its kind ever attempted. This one carries a neck date stamp from June 1966 with pickups dated to August that year. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With all this original engineering, Fender unfortunately missed the boat a bit on the electric 12-string fad and by the time the \"Electric XII\" came to market Rickenbacker had already pretty much reaped the bulk of benefit of the Byrds and Beatles popularization of the sound. For all that, the guitar is a very good design and an excellent sounding stage or recording instrument, albeit without exactly capturing the Rick's trademark jangle. Led Zeppelin, the Velvet Underground, The Move, The Kinks, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, the Baja Marimba Band and many others have made classic recordings with this model, and much of its potential is perhaps still untapped.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOverall length is 42 7\/8 in. (108.9 cm.), 14 in. (35.6 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 1 1\/2 in. (3.8 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 25 1\/2 in. (648 mm.). Width of nut is 1 11\/16 in. (43 mm.). Very clean overall, with only light signs of wear and a few dings to the edges. The tuners have been restored to original-there are light compression rings on the headstock indicating at some point Grovers or the like were fitted, with one small chip and an extra screwhole patched and visible. Some of the internal wiring has been redone, but the pickups and pots remain original and everything functions as it should. Good neck and frets, a very supple playing and fine sounding example of this distinctive Fender creation, complete with the OHSC. Excellent Condition.","brand":"Fender","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46853013209228,"sku":"7227","price":3750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/retrofret.com\/products\/fender-electric-xii-12-string-solid-body-electric-guitar-1966-7227","provider":"RetroFret","version":"1.0","type":"link"}