Description
Description & Specifications
1951 Fender Nocaster – Blond
We present an all-original and 100% complete 1951 Fender Nocaster in a Blond finish, made in Fullerton, California.
Condition & Features
Overall, this incredible 1951 Fender Nocaster (Blackguard) is in very good condition. It shows a lot of playwear across the entire body, including nicks, dings, and other cosmetic wear. The original frets and nut are in great shape, with plenty of life left. The original Blond finish displays beautiful finish checking throughout. The maple neck shows playwear on both the front and back. The original decal is perfect and fully intact.
It features a solid, lightweight ash body and a wonderfully shaped fretted maple neck with 21 frets and black dot position markers. Single “round” string tree. Original individual “no-name” Kluson Deluxe tuners with oval metal buttons and slot-head screws. The tuning keys are stamped “2356766 / PAT. APPLD” on the base.
The guitar is equipped with a plain metal-cover “black-bottom” bridge pickup with slot-head adjusting screws, and a black, six-polepiece “coated metal plate bottom” neck pickup with flush polepieces. It has a single-ply black Bakelite pickguard attached with slot-head screws.
Controls include one volume knob, one blender knob, and a three-way “tone” switch with slot-head screws, featuring the original black plastic “barrel” tip and mounted on a metal control plate adjoining the pickguard. It has original shorter chrome knobs with more pronounced domes and heavily knurled sides.
The classic Fender Nocaster combined bridge/tailpiece includes three brass saddles and slot-head intonation adjustment screws. The serial number is stamped on the bridge plate beneath the words “FENDER / PAT. PEND.”
Originality
This 1951 Fender Nocaster, serial number 1227, is all original throughout, with no modifications, breaks, or repairs. Just like it left the Fullerton factory back in 1951. The original solder joints cover the stamping on both potentiometers, but nothing inside has ever been touched. The pickups and electronics wiring remain completely untouched and intact — no broken solder joints, no rewound pickups. All original and 100% correct.
It even comes with its original “thermometer” case with chocolate brown plush lining. The latches and handle are in perfect working order. A name is written on the case — perhaps the original owner, perhaps not — but it’s a super cool piece of history. Complete with its original “ashtray” bridge cover.
