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    VINTAGE BENCH TEST 1965 FENDER ELECTRIC XII

    Oct 02, 2020 4 minutes
    WORDS HUW PRICE
    PHOTOGRAPHY
    ELEANOR JANE

    Unless you’ve recently beamed in from another dimension, you’ve almost certainly heard a Fender Electric XII doing its thing. From Pete Townshend’s playing on Tommy to Jimmy Page’s on Stairway To Heaven and Beck’s Bolero, as well as classic recordings by The Velvet Underground, Tim Buckley and Tom Petty, the list goes on and on.

    This Electric XII comes in a rare custom colour and delivers sounds to die for but, before we get into that, let’s take a closer look at it. The model was introduced in the summer of 1965 and, by the following year, Electric XII necks had acquired white binding. The pearloid dot markers and

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