Meet my Fender Lead Family

kentuckyklira

historyisjunk

Good stuff there, inc a Lead iii which I think is the most rare one (could be wrong). Good to see these appreciated. I have never actual heard the humbuckers. "Wide Range" of some kind? The singles were described as Wide Range, & they are different to a Strat- at least to me, though Strats vary a lot.

Has the Lead i on the right got the strange finish "bloom" that Fenders of this age sometime had?- not trying to slag it off, it's just a fact that it happened. My old black Precision has it really bad. I just accept it as a kind of relic job now. Your Lead ii on the left looks mint.

Offset

I think that's very cool indeed.  An affordable herd (sorry) of  Leads.

guitars4you

I think it is quite cool to build up a 'themed' collection - collect the set as such 

kentuckyklira

historyisjunk said:

Good stuff there, inc a Lead iii which I think is the most rare one (could be wrong). Good to see these appreciated. I have never actual heard the humbuckers. "Wide Range" of some kind? The singles were described as Wide Range, & they are different to a Strat- at least to me, though Strats vary a lot.

Has the Lead i on the right got the strange finish "bloom" that Fenders of this age sometime had?- not trying to slag it off, it's just a fact that it happened. My old black Precision has it really bad. I just accept it as a kind of relic job now. Your Lead ii on the left looks mint.

Actually, both red Lead Is and the black one do to different extents.

kentuckyklira

guitars4you said:

I think it is quite cool to build up a 'themed' collection - collect the set as such 

I love the necks, they´re as if moulded to my hands. Plus, the humbuckers sound great. The Lead II is just necessary to have a complete collection.

Philly_Q

guitars4you said:

I think it is quite cool to build up a 'themed' collection - collect the set as such 

I've got a "set" of Gibson Juniors and Specials, it wasn't planned but I got two similar ones and then decided to get the other available models.  But I hardly ever play any of them.

This is a cool set of Fender Leads.

Voxman

Yes, cool family indeed. I've played a lot of different guitars over the last 50 years but must admit that I've never played one of these.