I just noticed

The original shortscale guitars; Mustangs, Duo-Sonics, Musicmasters, Jaguars, Broncos, Jag-stang, Jagmaster, Super-Sonic, Cyclone, and Toronados.

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I just noticed

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That one of the tuners on the Sonic Kitten is a little different from the others. The neck is a 64 Mustang and judging by how consistent the aging is I pretty sure this is how it came from Fullerton.
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I'm thinking someone opened a new box of tuners that day and they took the last one from the old box
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The was a fight between pro-CBS and anti-CBS employees that day and they were chucking tuners at each other
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It’s a pretty across the board thing with old Fenders, which is why you can’t really trust serial numbers from that era.
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call the factory. demand answers.
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Yeah, send it back. You've been sold B-stock, there.
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A-width B-stock (C-what I did there?)
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ekwatts wrote: Wed Dec 21, 2022 12:53 pm The word "moisty" has made me irrationally angry.