1969 FINDER ROSEWOOD TELECASTER

The superb sonic qualities of rosewood have long been known to acoustic guitar makers, but rosewood is usually deemed unsuitable for electric guitar bodies because it’s too heavy and expensive. However, the latter isn’t much of a concern when you’re making a handful of instruments for some of the biggest names in contemporary music.

That’s certainly how it must have seemed to Fender when employees Roger Rossmeisl and Phil Kubicki were tasked with building some very special instruments indeed. According to most accounts, four Rosewood guitars were made initially: two Stratocasters and two Telecasters. The best of the Strats was earmarked for Jimi Hendrix but he died before