One of the Earliest Custom Color Musicmasters

This 12-inch three-quarter size "student" guitar weighs just 6.50 lbs. and has a scale length of 22 1/2 inches. Solid alder body, one-piece maple neck. Combined bridge/tailpiece with three adjustable saddles.

"Fender's new 'student' guitars, the Duo-Sonic and Musicmaster, first appeared in 1956. They had smaller, lighter bodies, shorter necks and basic appointments. The Musicmaster was the single-pickup version...Despite their budget status, the student models were still playable instruments: Fender seemed to have cut the right corners" (Tony Bacon and Paul Day, The Fender Book, p. 29). Although Fender used the term "three-quarter size" in publicizing the new student models, only the neck and the resulting scale-length were smaller, designed for younger hands that were just starting to play guitar.