True to the company founder’s modular ethos, the Fender Custom (later dubbed the “Maverick”) is a guitar that’s literally made of spare parts! After pulling the Electric XII from production in 1969, a savvy production manager saw all those pre-cut bodies piled up in the factory, took them to a bandsaw, painted over the twelve string-through-body holes in the back, slapped on a Mustang bridge, and—voila!—there you have it: a Fender Custom (aka Maverick)!
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More About The Fender Maverick, AKA Fender Custom
With only 600 - 800 specimens ever produced, the Fender Custom (an initial run of the guitar had the name Maverick on the headstock) was essentially a solution to use up all the leftover parts from the failed Electric XII. Thought up by Virgilio "Babe" Simoni, it originally debuted at a higher price than the Telecaster in the 1970 catalog, but was quickly lowered in price after people realized what the guitar really was. Despite veneer covering the extra 12-string holes in the peghead and a filler covering a string retainer hole in the back of the instrument, the Custom still featured a high-quality wide neck and dual split-coil pickups. Today good specimens are extremely rare and can still serve as decent player's guitars or collector's items.
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