Esq's or Teles with Interesting Maple Boards?

[corpse]

Bill? Anyone?

 

[Tom Wittrock]

Mine is boring. Just plain maple. :salude

 

[corpse]

I was trying to goad someone into posting a picture Tom. He's shy.

 

[Rev.WillieVK]

Nacho once told me that mineral-stained fingerboards are not all that rare.

 

[Unbound Dot Neck]

Same here , does not seem to affect tonal qualities,
lol - someone knew what they were doing , making necks
TG / XA masters
often imatated, seldom duplicated

:salude

Mine is boring. Just plain maple. :salude

 

[Rev.WillieVK]

I'd love to find a '50s or '60s vintage Strat/Tele with a flame maple neck - supposedly they are super-rare in the '50s and were mostly made for celebrity artists and maybe NAMM shows.

I once saw a late '60s Telecaster Thinline in natural with a flame-y body and a flame-y neck... still haunts me.

 

[Brown Recluse]

Mike Fenton had an extremely clean and very light Esquire here in San Diego. This was sometime during the nineties. I recall it being a '57 and it had a heavily flamed neck. It was priced at $4000, or slightly more. That is one guitar I really regret not scooping up when I had the chance.

 

[Cogswell]

I've seen more than a few '59 Strats w/flamed maple necks, & they all had problems.

 

[Rev.WillieVK]

Here's a "1954" (actually 1955) Strat on Reverb that has a figured neck, though the guitar is not as original as the seller says:

https://reverb.com/item/366486-fender-stratocaster-1954-sunburst