Chicago Music Exchange | 3 years ago
First, there was the Fender King, released in 1963, which they renamed the Fender Kingman in ‘65; then, by the late ‘60s, Fender started applying its polarizing Antigua* finish to it. There was also a point at which The King played a Fender Kingman for the title song of the 1967 film, Clam Bake—but, you’ll have to watch CME’s own acoustic expert, Josh, explain how this 1968 Fender Kingman Antigua came to be!
*Originally introduced to cover up manufacturing flaws in the Coronado II the Antigua sunburst was created to conceal scorch marks caused in the binding process, with Antigua’s fade to (intentionally) dark grey edges. Fender eventually applied the Antigua for any model—including this Kingman from 1968.
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More About The Fender Kingman!
The Fender King guitar was a flat-top acoustic guitar introduced by the Fender company in 1963. The guitar was re-introduced in 1966 as the Fender Kingman, and discontinued in 1971. Fender King guitars were sequentially numbered and the number placed on the back of the guitar on a small metal plate.
As the name suggests the King was the top of Fender's nascent acoustic guitar line introduced in late 1963 as the folk boom took hold of the market. In its acoustic line the standard Fender bolt-on neck design was carried over from the company's popular array of electric guitars and basses. This unique configuration married a high quality neck more akin to a Fender electric guitar than a typical acoustic instrument attached to a standard sized acoustic dreadnought body. Due to this unusual configuration a "tone bar" (derisively termed a "broomstick") of aluminum had to be added through the body for structural rigidity. In 1965-66 the name "King" was changed to "Kingman" and finally discontinued with the entire critically derided and poorly selling acoustic line in 1971.
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