Custom Fuzz Finish Jazzmaster 63/69

[PorkyPrimeCut]

A couple of questions for the original poster, now we've seen the guitar in question...

1. You call it a "Factory finish test unit". Where did you get your information from?
2. Did you buy this under the impression it was a rare, oddball guitar?

[Ceylon]

Also would love to know more about Leo and George taking LSD and doing things to guitars that they didn’t care about anymore cuz they were just biding their time to finish the cushy consultant jobs they’d lined up. I tried searching and found nothing about any of that so if you’ve got a link maybe I’d love to read about it because that sounds crazy.

[Mechanical Birds]

He’s just stabbing 4 baked potatoes vaguely organized into the shape of a capital F

[Mechanical Birds]

Got this

Can anyone else just not even remotely see if that’s fuzz or just a guitar that’s been spray painted with crappy red paint? Like it’s not even remotely a detailed enough photo to judge

This is just starting to piss me off

[PorkyPrimeCut]

Now that someone's pointed out that it looks flocked it kinda makes sense.

More close-up pics will confirm it but, yeah, it looks kinda fuzzy, as opposed to just being badly finished with matt paint.

[howdo3313]

...so like the old Foxx pedals then?

[andy_tchp]

And eleventy million glovebox lids.

[elektrovac]

Got this

Nice. Hardly any wear to the finish. If it's from 1969, it hasn't been played much - or it's an extremly durable and stain resistant kind of finish.
I wonder what happened to the bridge thimbles ... Covered by the fuzz, maybe?

[601210]

Can anyone else just not even remotely see if that’s fuzz or just a guitar that’s been spray painted with crappy red paint? Like it’s not even remotely a detailed enough photo to judge

If it was a credible story he'd be stopping the presses, detailed pics of everything, every visible marking on the guitar mapped out.

This is just playing out like a bigfoot sighting.

Someone else has a pretty good point, too. I wasn't around in the 60s, but from what I know of the era and of fuzzy/velvety surfaces... I would not wanna touch that thing.

[fuzzjunkie]

...so like the old Foxx pedals then?

Exactly. Maybe Foxx had a Jazzmaster sitting around to test pedals with and during a smoke break someone said “Hold my beer, Ima gonna flock this thing!”

Does the tail piece and blocks and binding look strange to anyone else? It’s looking like a “Serviceman’s” guitar to me.

[fuzzjunkie]

I guess it was a thing? Found a Gretschpages.com discussion about flocking guitars and someone posted an add for “Velvetex” which was a 70s auto body paint if you wanted to flock your Gremlin or AMC.

I think the heads of my GI Joe’s were flocked back in the day.

[howdo3313]

...so like the old Foxx pedals then?

Exactly. Maybe Foxx had a Jazzmaster sitting around to test pedals with and during a smoke break someone said “Hold my beer, Ima gonna flock this thing!”

Does the tail piece and blocks and binding look strange to anyone else? It’s looking like a “Serviceman’s” guitar to me.

That's flocking awesome...sry...feels like a dad joke.

[aliendawg]

Looks like a weird photoshop work to me

[Kaulrich]

I was posting for information, I’m done now-continue criticizing to your hearts content.

[aliendawg]

Sorry, dude. But look... We just need more pictures