Gecko '62 Jazzmaster®


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Model Name Jazzmaster®  Build Shots
Color


Daphne Blue

Click Daphne Blue Cadillac to see the color as it on a 58 Caddy Coupe.  Daphne blue was a "custom" Fender color and is one of the more rare of the custom colors.
All nitro-cellulose lacquer by Guitar ReRanch

Body Swamp Ash
Neck

CBS® style Peghead - built by USA Custom Guitars.
Quartersawn Maple, “C” Shape .870 profile (fat)
Dark Rosewood fretboard, vintage style frets 6230 size wire
(Nitro-Cellulose Lacquer Finish) body colored peghead
Vintage tint stain on the neck by Guitar Reranch.

Tuners Kluson Single Line Vintage Style Nickel Tuning Machines
Fingerboard

Brazilian Rosewood with cream clay dots.
• 25-1/2" Scale, 21 Frets
• 12 radius - 1/4" thick
• rolled edges

No. of Frets 21
Pickups Lollar Vintage  with vintage white covers. Lollar uses wide thin coils made to original specs unlike recent re-issue stock pickups. The magnets poles are radiused and beveled graded Alnico 5 pole pieces. Vintage style cloth covered lead wire. Wax Potted.
Controls Lead Circuit: Volume, Tone
500k Volume and Tone Super Pots from RSGuitar Works Hovland .047 Cap.
Rhythm Circuit: Volume, Tone Std 1 Meg/50k Pots.
Bridge Fender® Jazzmaster bridge with Tusq®  by Graphtech saddles. Jazzmaster® style tremolo by Fender®
Pickup Switching Lead Circuit: 3-Position Toggle,
Position 1. Bridge Pickup
Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups
Position 3. Neck Pickup
Rhythm:
2-Position Slide:
Up: Lead Tone Circuit
Down: Rhythm Tone Circuit
Hardware Chrome. Original Fender tremolo and bridge.
Strings

George Benson Jazz Strings by Thomastick-Infeld

.012, .016, .020w, .028, .039, .053

Pickguard Tortoise (red variant)
Scale Length 25.5” (648 mm)
Nut Width 1 & 11/16
Date of Build Begun September 2005- Completed 16 Dec 2005