"The Rarest Of The Rare".

Built by Master Luthier Fred Stuart specially for the Winter 2001 NAMM Show, this incredibly rare, 13 3/4-inch-wide Marauder Type 2 weighs 8.70 lbs. and has a nut width of just over 1 5/8 inches and a scale length of 25.50 inches. Two-piece alder body, one-piece maple neck with a nice thick profile and an African slab-rosewood fretboard with 21 original medium frets and inlaid clay dot position markers. Headstock with "Fender" transitional logo in gold with black trim. On the back of the headstock is a small oval decal with "Custom Built / Fred Stuart / Fender U.S.A." in gold. Single "butterfly" string tree. The neck is signed in pencil on the underside "Fred / [signature] / 19.28.2000" and on the end of the neck also in pencil "FS. 12.00". Four-bolt neck plate stamped "Marauder / NAMM Proto". Individual Fender [Japan] Deluxe tuners with oval metal buttons. Three  'Jaguar' pickups specially wound by Abigail Ybarra  with perfectly balanced outputs of 5.93k, 5.92k, and 5.89k respectively (from neck to bridge). Four-layer 'tortoiseshell' over white / black / white plastic pickguard with fifteen screws. Two controls (one volume, one tone) and jack socket on lower metal plate adjoining pickguard on the treble side, circuit selector (rhythm/lead) slide switch and two roller controls (one volume, one tone) on upper metal plate adjoining pickguard on the bass side. Four pickup selector slide switches on metal plate inset into the pickguard on the treble side. These four, three-way pickup switches (one per pickup), allow on/off/on settings and circuit selection. It has two sets of volume/tone pots - rollers on top control plate (rhythm position) and traditional pots on the lower control plate (lead position). White plastic ribbed-side conical-shape "Witch Hat" control knobs. Fender Stratocaster style "Synchronized Tremolo" combined six-saddle bridge/tailpiece. Complete with the original tremolo arm and bridge cover. This guitar is in near mint (9.25) condition with just some very fine checking and a minor ding on the top (just by the top bass edge) and a few very minor and insignificant indentations on the back of the body. A fabulous example. Together with a letter of authenticity (dated February 6th, 2012) from Fred Stuart. Housed in the original 'gig bag' and also a Fender G&L tan tolex hardshell case with brown leather ends and orange plush lining (9.50).