Fender Mustang

This is my baby a 1966 mustang. Its dakota red or fiesta red with a white pickguard.The neck is maple with a rosewood fretboard.The controls are simple two three-way switches a volume and a tone knob. The bridge is different the guy I got it from said he put the bridge on it because the old tremolo was always going out of tune. Its just a simple duo-sonic bridge with three saddles the tuners are klusion deluxe.The pickups are black lace sensors.

Sounds good today was the first day I used it with a band and there wasnt feed back or very much noise.Pickups are gritty and sound good but the clean is just average.

The guy I got it from played with very thin strings so over years of playing the nut got worn down,so the thing buzzed but I put thick strings on it and it is perfect.He gave the guitar to me pretty beat up but just the finish,everything else was fine.

This guitar is built great and will last a long time and even after thirty years of being played its doing great.I would use this guitar live with no backup.Today I played with my band for hours and didnt even have to tune it.The only problem is the wood where one of the screws go to hold on the metal plate where the volume and tone knobs go was stripped so when you take out the cord the plate will start to come off.

Never had to deal with fender

Ive been playing for about three years and own a 62 reissue jaguar. I traded it for a cookie cutter mexi strat that was my first guitar and i didnt care for it very much. I wish I could of gotten the original bridge with it but thats okay he also gave me a fender case from 1964.

Mine is an original Mustang from 1968 and was made in the U.S.A. It has either 21 or 22 frets. It has volume and tone controls, with a three-way selector switch for both pick-ups. The pick-ups are the original. It has a Strat style body in a light blue. I still have the original case and it has a bright orange cloth covering the inside.

Soundwise, it is a very mellow sounding guitar but when I hook it up to a great Fender amp with distortion and reverb, it can get to sounding pretty mean. I use a Fender 112 Deluxe amp. This guitar can make any sound you want if you have the right effects pedals.

The action has been adjusted over the years, along with the pick-ups and the bridge. This guitar has no flaws at all.

The Mustang is a very reliable guitar. Still 30 years after it was bought, it still sounds and looks great. It is very dependable and I would use it at a gig without a backup.

I have been playing for three years. My dad gave me the Mustang when I started because that is what he bought in 1968 when he started to play. I also use a classical acoustic Martin guitar from about 1970.

Well, mine is an original Fender Mustang from 1975, its got a maple neck and fingerboard, 22 frets (medium jumbo, i believe), the body is made of basswood. Its got a nice 3 color sunburst finish to it and looks great even 23 years later. Its got 2 single coil pickups, I changed mine to a Seymour Duncan JB junior (bridge) and a Little '59 (neck). Its pretty much got your standard tuners with the "F" fender logo on them as well as the bridge which came without a tremolo bar. The neck itself is very skinny, much more so than my strat. I kind of like the feel of it though.

Initially with the stock pickups, the sound was very thin, only good for a 60's kind of clean tone, but not great for distortion. I recently change them to Seymour Duncan pickups as mentioned above and the guitar came alive! It still sounds great clean but much much better when used for distorted tones, however it still can be some what thin or certain setttings. The tone is pretty full and bright, lots of high end and lows and decent mids. My musical style is very diverse from blues to jazzy stuff, to classic rock to metal. This guitar can pretty much cover anything except metal but it can come close if you boost the mids (i use a boss ge-7 eq pedal to do so) Some people say its a "beginner guitar" well i'm definitely not a beginner, i've played for over 5 years, i simply like the feel of the skinny neck. Overall its a great and inexpensive guitar that i guess never really was that popular.

Its seems to have held up well thru the years, the guitar itself is in great condition, just a few minor scratches. The pickups, as i mentioned, have been replaced very recently and everything seems fine now. The bridge is kind of a different design, i don't like it as much as a strat style bridge but it still works. As i said already the finish is very nice and not amateurish at all.

I've never had a problem with it, i've owned it for 2 years, its over 23 years old itself. Nothing really bothered me about this guitar except the pickups but now it sounds great and can work for any style of music pretty much.

Nah, i've never dealt with fender, if i've got a probelm i'll bring it to my local music shop if i can't fix it myself.

As I said, i've played for over 5 years and i think this a great guitar for the price. I own several other guitars including a strat plus w/ lace sensor pickups and several acoustics. I'd be cool if it had like a floyd rose bridge or something but this works, pickups sound great, i really don't have any major complaints. Its a great value and worth checking out.

Solid body neo-strat shaped (earliest ones don't have contoured back) guitar w/ two single coil low-end Fender pickups (solid cover w/ no exposed pole pieces-same pickup as the Bronco and Duo-Sonic), individual 3-position pickup switches over each pickup, master volume and tone controls (on a nifty chrome plate), and a largely above board vibrato. Mine is a '73 Competition Orange w/ stripes finish. They evidently still used some cellulose in the "mother of pearl" pickguards, ' cuz mine was pretty warped around the edges when I got it @ "79. The vibrato is great for surfin', but you can't dump the strings as one can w/ a strat vibrato-but you can still use it for Sonic Youth style assaults. The pickup switches are three-position with the middle being off. When the switches are both on either closest together or furthest apart it puts the pickups out of phase-perhaps one of the first designs purposefully made to do this-at least by an American company (remember-this is a '64 designed guitar). Lotta stuff for a "student guitar"

The vibrato sucks sustain as it runs the strings thru a steel bar attached to a steel plate mounted on the guitar face-the strings never go thru the body at any time. This is coupled w/ them travelling over a rocking bridge suspended on two pins (or screw bottoms if you can't find real pins) creates plenty of vibration and non-solid anchoring. The original pickups sound authentically Fendery-but are a bit on the thin side. Over the years I've replaced mine (finally) with Duncan Hot Rails-these sound like the humbuckers they are-not surfy in the least.

Fender didn't 'dumb down" the quality when they made these, they just have cheesy pickups. This guitar actually seems to be of better quality than many of the higher end Fenders made around the same time-maybe they didn't have to skimp to make Mustangs. I've abused my tiny pickup switches making the usual rapid-fire on/off noises and they are still rock solid (more than I can say of the feel of the reissue switches). Mine came w/out a whammy bar-but you can push on the bar and get most of the movement you need, and it keeps people guessing how you did all that "cool shit".

I got this guitar when I was fifteen and it was my only guitar until I was twenty-five. In that span I went from avid bedroom guitarist to full-time 'alterna-rocker" (ain't jargon great???)-my once immaculate guitar now looks like doo-doo. Its' on its' third nut, third set of tuners, third pickup configuration, and second set of knobs (tele knobs-better for violining than the horrible plastic ones-which now look way cool on my Jerry Jones). Otherwise everything else is original and in solid (if not pristine) shape-so non-electronic hardware and the body and neck are fairly rugged-after being dropped, thrown, rolled over and just plain abused.

I remember trying to get a vibrato bar thru Fender whilst in high school-they'd string me along for months at a time-never admitting that they didn't even make the guitar anymore-the fuckers (they were still owned by CBS at the time-to be fair about it).

Good beginner guitar and great for flogging barchords at high speed. maybe it's just because I learned on this instrument, but I seem to be able to play it more intuitively than any of my other guitars. My hands are not huge, but bigger than average-so the slightly smaller scale made me feel like Hendrix (w/out the drugs even)-it was neat to be able to reach some super-human expanses on the neck, but it's now perhaps a bit small for clean fretting finesse stuff. I still take it out when i wanna really annoy the neighbors though-it only plays the loud stuff for some reason.

Reissue 97' Mustang. Sonic Blue with red pearloid/tortoise shell pickguard. - short scale - 2 single coil pickups ( I replaced the bridge with a hotrails) - tone and volume controls - floating tremolo (I have installed gotoh tune-o-matic) - skinny neck for short people.
I hate the tremolo on this guitar. The bridge sucks. You have to press in with an allen head on the wammy and can't move it to the side. Great vibrato, but like to replace with a floyd.( Is this possible? Someone let me know, please). Not too much on the guitar, but it's simple and easy to use.

When I had the single in the bridge it sounded like crap with distortion. With the hotrails, I get a fat sound that suits me fine. And oh! the sustain. The best guitar I've ever played.

I don't like the action on this guitar. I'm more like Jerry Cantrell. I like very low action, and this guitar came with very high action. I am not pleased with the finish. I had to order it because I'm a lefty. The mustang came with a 2 inch scratch. What do the people in Japan do? Have sword fights wile making guitars. It can't be because of mass production. It's a lefty for god's sake! They make about 10 a year probably. The wood and accessories are perfect with no flaw.

This thing rocks. I don't polish my guitar and it still looks as like a million. Everything's fine in this category. I will gig relentlessly without a backup. Kurt Cobain used one guitar for a month straight with his usual aggressive style. Now, that's touring!

They suck. They made stupid mistakes because they don't care about the quality of their left-handed products. I will never buy another fender. They even sent me a righty! And they recalled it.

I love this guitar, but after a lot of modifying. If you have the cash to modify, it's the most comfortable guitar out there. Oh! for those who say mustangs suck, do your homework and try out the reissues. They have the quirks fixed from the originals. I want to put a floyd on this thing. Someone, let me know if it's possible.

This is a 1965 Mustang, made shortly after CBS bought Fender. The body is alder, with a maple neck capped by a thin ("veneer") rosewood fretboard. My particular Mustang is lightweight, just over six pounds. The body color used to be white but has now aged to a lovely cream. The shape is quite Strat-like but without contours. The scale length is 24" like the Fender Jaguar, qualifying this as a short-scale instrument. There are 22 frets, again like the Jaguar. Pickups consist of two single-coil units, the same type used by Fender in the '50s and '60s on its other "student" guitars, the Duo-Sonic and Musicmaster. These pickups are low in output but have a sweet, liquid-y sound and are, in my opinion, quite underrated today. Controls are one volume pot, one tone pot, and a three-way selector switch for each pickup. The switches allow you to use either or both pickups, in or out of phase. The pickups are hum-canceling when used together in phase. The bridge is part of Leo Fender's Dynamic Vibrato system. (Leo had finally got the terminology right at this point and was no longer calling his vibrato systems "tremolos.") The bridge is radiused to match the fretboard, which is shaped to the usual Fender 7.25" radius or thereabouts. It's adjustable for overall height, and each saddle is individually adjustable for intonation. The vibrato bar attaches to the tailpiece...the system works not unlike a Bigsby. Using the vibrato with light strings puts the guitar out of tune easily. With heavier strings (I use Pyramid flatwounds, .011?.048) tuning stability, not to mention overall tone, is better.

The Mustang's sound works well for clean rhythm parts or playing at the edge of distortion. This suits the folk-based rock and pop I base many of my own songs on. (I also love to play punk/thrash music with loads of distortion, screeching atonal feedback and such, but that's another story and another guitar.) The pickups, as I mentioned above, are low in output and sweet sounding. No muddiness at any setting. Hum is sometimes present, as you'd expect with single-coil units. The neck unit has a nice warmth for a single-coil pickup, and the bridge unit is bright without being harsh or shrill. Using both pickups together in phase yields a hollowed, clucky, Strat-like tone. Out-of-phase the tone gets snarly, which can be useful for dissonant lead playing. I think the Mustang loses its character under heavy distortion, as do many guitars actually. Better to use an instrument with higher output pickups in such a situation. Overall I love these pickups...if the Mustang wasn't such a resonant, clear-sounding instrument in its own right I'd keep 'em and put 'em on a different guitar.

I bought the guitar used so I can't say how well the factory setup was, but Fender had a good reputation in this area until the negative effects of the CBS takeover set in. This Mustang was well-made, though. The fret slots were all cut to the proper depth, the nut was cut and fitted well, the tuners (Klusons) work smoothly, the bridge saddles adjust properly, and the neck/body joint is snug. It's as well-built as any Fender I've ever owned.

I've used this guitar live and (mostly) in my little home studio for years without any trouble. The color has faded as I mentioned above (I think it looks better now) and there's a lot of checking in the nitrocellulose outer finish layers. This isn't unusual with guitars from the '50s and '60s, though. This is a Fender from the tail end of the "golden era," built to last. I wouldn't hesitate to use it live without backup.

I've never dealt with the current Fender company. If I ever have problems with my Mustang that I can't fix myself, I'll take it to a local shop where I know the folks who'll be working on it.

I've been playing guitar for close to 25 years. I currently own around 20 guitars and a dozen amps of various sorts. Also a bunch of effects pedals, of course. The things I like best about the Mustang are the shorter scale length, which is a nice change of pace from the usual 24.75" or 25.5"; its sweet, clean tone; and its reliability. There's nothing about it I dislike...I bought it for what it is, a great clean-sounding guitar, and I have other guitars that cover other kinds of sounds or are more suited to other styles of playing. I'm sure if it were stolen or lost I'd find another Mustang to replace it.

According to the Fender ax-dater at the Fender web site my mustang was made in 1972. But they use the serial nuberon the neck brace to figure this out and they just dump those into a bucket before all of them have been used so it could be off by about ten years. I assume it was made in the U.S. because it doesnt say otherwise. There are 22 frets, i dont know how that qualifies as a short scale. There are master tone and volume nobs. Both PUs are single coils, but right now it is awaiting new pickups. The neck is a half round shape almost like a tele.

I cant say what this guitar sounds like because the pickups are dead. My other mustang sounds great, I assume this one will too when I get some new pickups in it.

The action is really nice, very easy to play. There are no flaws that I can see. The finish is a dark wood grain, I dont think too many were made this way.

Based on my other mustang this guitar could last forever.

I love this guitar. A lot of people are afraid to get one because they are short scale, all I have to say about that is play one you will love it.