A FENDER/YATER HAWAII "PINTAIL" TELECASTER PROTOTYPE ELECTRIC GUITAR
2008
Black single cutaway slab body with extended shaped tail, rosewood neck with birds-eye maple centerstrip on reverse, white pickguard, two single coil pickups, gold hardware, signed by Yater on the body reverse, no serial number.
Provenance: Santa Barbara Surfing Museum.
From an idea conceived by skateboard hall-of-famer James O'Mahoney, Reynolds Yater shaped 3 prototype surf guitars for Fender in 2008: a pintail Stratocaster, a teardrop Jazzmaster and this pintail Telecaster. The rosewood neck is by Phil Kubicki (late Fender luthier who built the rosewood Telecaster for George Harrison and the rosewood Stratocaster for Jimi Hendrix, as well as the creator of the innovative Factor Bass). The finish is by Tom Kelley and the electronics by Seymour Duncan.
Tele in front and surf in back, this rarity never went into production at Fender.
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2008
Black single cutaway slab body with extended shaped tail, rosewood neck with birds-eye maple centerstrip on reverse, white pickguard, two single coil pickups, gold hardware, signed by Yater on the body reverse, no serial number.
Provenance: Santa Barbara Surfing Museum.
From an idea conceived by skateboard hall-of-famer James O'Mahoney, Reynolds Yater shaped 3 prototype surf guitars for Fender in 2008: a pintail Stratocaster, a teardrop Jazzmaster and this pintail Telecaster. The rosewood neck is by Phil Kubicki (late Fender luthier who built the rosewood Telecaster for George Harrison and the rosewood Stratocaster for Jimi Hendrix, as well as the creator of the innovative Factor Bass). The finish is by Tom Kelley and the electronics by Seymour Duncan.
Tele in front and surf in back, this rarity never went into production at Fender.
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