Interesting Rossmeisl-designed Fender lucite prototype

[Dave W]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1972-FENDER-VINTAGE-LUCITE-PROTOTYPE-ELECTRIC-TELECASTER-STRAT-JAGUAR-GUITAR-/170863843969

Most of the time when someone claims they have a prototype, it's not. This one sure looks real to me, there's even a pic of Carl Wilson playing it.

The shape is certainly in the Fender tradition, yet it's different.

[Chris P.]

I also believe this one. Bridge looks genuine and rare

[chromium]

Early experiments in black hardware... 

That is a strange egg!  Not a big fan of the lucite, but I do like the design.  Was that headstock only used on the Starcaster?  This one would have pre-dated those...

[Basvarken]

That headstock looks like a Smurfs hat...

 

[Chris P.]

Not Fender's best headstock design indeed... But I got used to them, cos I really like the looks of the Starcaster.

[Highlander]

I was once told of an EBO (style?) neck married to a pentagonal shaped with prismatic (effect) edges but the "owner" never showed up with the beast, nor with even an image of it - he commented that the light "sprayed off it" in all sorts of directions and that it "weighed a ton..."

I often hankered after a Dan Armstrong (even though I'm not a shorty fan) but it never happened and I guess it never will...

[nofi]

it needs a lucite headstock. i think it would work although i have never seen one.

[Nocturnal]

BC Rich had some lucite headstocks for a while.

http://www.normansrareguitars.com/product.php?productid=2245&cat=13&page=1

[Highlander]

 

[clankenstein]

thats kind of neat,it reminds me of pounamu (jade)

[Dave W]

Sold for $28,700!

[nofi]

lucite, the incredible tone polymer.