![]() ![]() My question, basically, is whether it's worth it for me to buy the amp from her, have it shipped cross-country (she's in Seattle, I live in Boston), and get it fixed up? Or would I be better off just buying a new Blues Junior or something like that? I'm aware that there's no definitive answer to a question like this, I'm just curious what the forum opinion on the Musicmaster bass is (for guitar amplification, of course-I gather that these suck as bass amps). The pots are scratchy, and it makes a lot of static-type noise when it's on-I presume that means that it probably needs a recap? It sounds pretty decent, despite the noise, but the only guitar I have to try it out with here is an old DeArmond M65C (LP copy), and I'm a SC kinda guy. ![]() My guess is that everything is stock (well, maybe not the tubes-they're Sovteks). Is this a low-watt vintage tone machine? Or another piece of CBS-era low-end junk? It's a silverface, from 1976, so far as I can determine (it uses two 6V6s). Although Fender used the term "three-quarter size" in publicizing the new student models, only the neck and the resulting scale-length were smaller, designed for younger hands that were just starting to play guitar.My sister has a Fender Musicmaster bass amp that she's planning to get rid of. The Musicmaster was the single-pickup version.Despite their budget status, the student models were still playable instruments: Fender seemed to have cut the right corners" (Tony Bacon and Paul Day, The Fender Book, p. ![]() They had smaller, lighter bodies, shorter necks and basic appointments. "Fender's new 'student' guitars, the Duo-Sonic and Musicmaster, first appeared in 1956. Rumour has it that FENDER stopped marking any date because someone complained about an obscene message penciled on the neck of his new guitar!" (A.R. "After April 1959, the dating procedure was temporarily suspended for several months and then resumed in early 1960. July 1959 Musicmaster has no neck date, as usual. Housed in the original Fender light tan hardshell case with tan leather ends and orange plush lining (9.00). Complete with the original chrome bridge cover. Apart from some minor belt buckle scarring on the back of the body and a few small abrasions on the sides, this guitar is in exceptionally fine (9.00) condition. The pots are dated: "137 847" (CTS November 1958). Combined bridge/tailpiece with three adjustable threaded saddles. Telecaster-style chrome knobs with knurled sides and flat tops. One plain-top Bakelite Musicmaster pickup, angled at neck, with an output of 5.82k, plus two controls (one volume, one tone) and jack socket, all on the white plastic pickguard (with twelve screws). Four-bolt neck plate with serial number ("38480") between the top two screws. Individual single-line Kluson Deluxe tuners with white oval plastic buttons. Headstock decal with "Fender" logo in silver with black trim and "'Musicmaster'" in black below it. Solid alder body, one-piece maple neck with a medium to thin profile, and slab rosewood fretboard with 21 frets and clay dot position markers. and has a nut width of just under 1 9/16 inches and a short scale length of 22 1/2 inches. This 12-inch-wide three-quarter size "student" guitar weighs just 5.90 lbs. ![]() A Fine and Original Early "Slab-Board" Musicmaster ![]()
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