Guitar Wolf

100 percent all original here...This is NOT a Squire people!!!  Check out some videos on youtube of the Lead I it really pushes your tubes... Did I mention it has a phase switch.... SUPER LOW STARTING BID W NO RESERVE!! ..THIS IS AN AMAZING PLAYING AND SOUNDING GUITAR...IT'S IN AMAZING SHAPE ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING IT'S 30 YEARS OLD !!!!!!!   The neck on this thing is amazing... it has a nice gloss which makes it really easy to get up and down.. it's like butter ~!  I AT ONE POINT TURNED DOWN AN AMERICAN STANDARD TELE IN NICE SHAPE FOR THIS GUITAR... .this guitar is pretty much the same design as 54 stratocaster and the only reason they were SLIGHTLY cheaper than the tele and strats at the time was because of their slightly smaller bodies... ...THIS GUITAR  WAS BUILT at THE CORONA , CA, PLANT IN 1981 for F sakes !!!!!!...These guitars are incredibly rare as well so the value is only going  to go up especially one like this with original beautiful art work on it . ...   Includes TKL Hardshell case (non original but very nice nonetheless)  (VERY LITTLE  fret wear)...It pretty much has the same neck as the American Standard at the time...  designed by the guy who went on to head the custom shop... 100 percent USA Fender made... This one was made in 1981 making it a legit Vintage Fender USA guitar... ...Electronics are fine... neck is straight...absolutely no issues here...see my other feedback....a few light scratches which i've tried to illustrate...The pics don't do the amazing painting justice... it's truely amazing... It's an Eddie painting  and it's truely beautiful... don't miss your chance to get a RARE one of a kind Fender USA guitar...designed by the guy who shortly after went on to form the USA  Fender Custom shop... here's some more info on these guitars...ships to continental USA only .... paypal only... one day only auction.... payment due within 48 hrs....If you guys don't get it this time it's going to consignment shop.... So last chance Ebay.....  for the fun of it auction will start at 359 with NR.... good luck like i said last chance...

General features

• Manufactured Fall 1979 through 1982.


• Vintage style “Soft C” profile neck with a 7¼" (184 mm) radius.


• Neck width at nut 1.60" (40.64 mm), plus applied finish thickness on 1981 models.


• Truss rod adjustment at the heel of the neck.


• 2 vintage style string trees.


• 21 medium frets.


• "F" tuners (West German-manufactured), and "F" 4 bolt neck plate.


• 3 Ply BWB through 1981 and WBW through 1982 pickguard with foil backing.


• White plastic nut.


• 25½" scale length.


• Bridge uses a string spacing of 0.404" (10 mm).


• Hardtail through-body mounted strings.


• The saddle screws used lock nuts, not springs.

The original concept for the Lead Guitar series, including the name lead came from Dennis Handa, then Marketing director for Fender Guitars. The idea was to have a guitar other than the  Stratocaster and Telecaster to be attractive to players because of the neck feel as well as the pickup options. The smaller headstock and the neck were both patterned after earlier Fender necks. Originally Steve Morse of the Dixie Dregs was the first endorser of the guitar and premiered it at a Namm show in Atlanta Georgia. The Lead Guitars were manufactured between 1979 and 1982 by the Fender Musical Equipment Co. under the direction of Gregg Wilson and Freddie Tavares. Gregg Wilson was succeeded by John Page, who eventually headed the Fender Custom Shop. The Lead Series have elements of the Stratocaster and Telecaster in their design with a body that is slightly smaller and with a slightly different shape than the Stratocaster, a Stratocaster-like neck (and headstock), and hardtail bridge with Telecaster-like string ferrules on the back of the body.

The Lead Series headstock was smaller than that of the then Stratocaster models and similar though not identical to the 1954 Stratocaster design. The Stratocaster models at the time of the Lead Series release in late 1979 were still using the larger headstock design until the introduction of the Dan Smith Stratocaster in 1981. At some point during 1982 the lower bout of the headstock was shifted towards the body giving the headstock a more elongated look.

The Lead Series were manufactured at Fender's Fullerton, California plant and priced below the Stratocaster models of the time (approx. $495.00). (the lead series were just a hundred dollars cheaper than the US. strats and teles at the time and have since become hard to acquire.

• Lead I, 1979–1982: A single specially designed bridge position split humbucker. Three-position coil selector switch (single coil, both coils, single coil), two-position humbucker series/parallel select switch which operates only when both coils are selected (middle position). Master volume and tone controls.


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  The DC resistance of the Lead I/III humbucker pickup is approximately 13 k?. The Lead I/III humbucker pickups have 12 adjustable pole pieces and have a ceramic magnet.



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  The Lead Series use 250 k? volume and tone potentiometers and use 0.05 µF tone capacitors. The body is usually made of 3 pieces of either alder or ash while the necks are maple with a walnut 'skunk stripe' on their backs and a matching plug on the face of the headstock covering the end of the truss rod.

  
  

  Maple fingerboarded necks are made of one piece of maple (no separate fingerboard) while rosewood fingerboarded necks have a thick veneer of rosewood stuck over the pre-radiused face of the neck. Interestingly, while the Lead neck is approximately .04 in narrower at the nut than typical Fender Telecasters and Stratocasters of that era, the neck width at the 21st fret is the same as the Stratocaster and Tele (measuring 2.182 inches).