My Fender Swinger

truetone6 · 11-11-2011, 11:52 AM

My new(used) guitar. UPS is delivering it today.Wish the would hurry up and get here!

AngryHatter · 11-11-2011, 03:14 PM

Looks very cool...a single pickup Mustang?

But for the life of me, I NEED maple fretboards on my Fenders.
Dunno why.
They just look, oooky, otherwise.

zontar · 11-11-2011, 03:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AngryHatter

Looks very cool...a single pickup Mustang?

But for the life of me, I NEED maple fretboards on my Fenders.
Dunno why.
They just look, oooky, otherwise.

Basically it's a reshaped Musicmaster--CBS era fender getting rid of parts they didn't use otherwise.

but if it works, and you like to play it--great.
It has a funky look that stands apart, and those so-called student fenders from back then were pretty cool--even after CBS took over...

truetone6 · 11-11-2011, 03:35 PM

Thanks for the posts! Yes the Swinger was a "floor sweeper" model The neck is a 22.5 scale Mustang blank

and the body was a left over Bass V body

You can see the rougt for the split pickup in the photo below the pickguard,bridge and electronic were from the Musicmaster.

truetone6 · 11-11-2011, 03:40 PM

I got this red one because it is looks like the one Tina Weymouth has.

Tina with Fender Swinger

Ben Kweller has a couple of Swingers.

Blue Swinger

AngryHatter · 11-11-2011, 04:32 PM

Last time I bought a guitar based on who else played the same kind was 1970s, my strat.
I LOOK for the SOUND it makes.

truetone6 · 11-12-2011, 01:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AngryHatter

Last time I bought a guitar based on who else played the same kind was 1970s, my strat.

Haha, thats how I buy all my guitars.

truetone6 · 11-12-2011, 05:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AngryHatter

Looks very cool...a single pickup Mustang?

But for the life of me, I NEED maple fretboards on my Fenders.
Dunno why.
They just look, oooky, otherwise.

You probably don't like my oooky strat either.

diceman · 04-06-2012, 06:31 PM

A necro bump for one of the coolest little guitars Fender pieced together.

Bountyhunter · 04-06-2012, 07:19 PM

I like it.

truetone6 · 04-06-2012, 10:52 PM

There is a guy selling 3 of them on ebay:

Sonic Blue

Olympic White

Lake Placid Blue

Bubbletonic · 04-07-2012, 09:13 AM

Not my thing but the colours on those three are beautiful.

Jim · 04-07-2012, 10:01 AM

That white one really speaks to me..

diceman · 04-14-2012, 01:20 AM

If I had one, I'd slap one of my 24" scale necks on it... would be awesome.

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AngryHatter Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 13,357 Thanks: 40 Thanked 107 Times in 44 Posts	Re: My Fender Swinger Looks very cool...a single pickup Mustang? But for the life of me, I NEED maple fretboards on my Fenders. Dunno why. They just look, oooky, otherwise.

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truetone6 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 1,849 Thanks: 0 Thanked 44 Times in 27 Posts	Re: My Fender Swinger Thanks for the posts! Yes the Swinger was a "floor sweeper" model The neck is a 22.5 scale Mustang blank and the body was a left over Bass V body You can see the rougt for the split pickup in the photo below the pickguard,bridge and electronic were from the Musicmaster.

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