Fender 2012 Elvis Kingman Dreadnought Natural Wildwood

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This 2012 Fender Kingman is in excellent condition with very little fretwear, some dings here and there, a straight neck with room in the truss rod for future neck relief adjustments, and a great setup with low action.

Fender introduced the Elvis Kingman acoustic guitar in 2012, hailing the King of Rock 'n' Roll and transporting players back to 1967 with a sharp-looking remake of the Fender acoustic that Elvis Presley wielded in the cinematic romp Clambake. The guitar Elvis played in that film was a Fender Kingman from the mid-1960s — a model that is now firmly established in the visual iconography of Elvis's performing life — and the 2012 reissue recreates it in detail, including the specification that makes these instruments genuinely unusual: the Wildwood finish. 

In the mid-1960s Fender introduced the exotic Wildwood finish — achieved by injecting beechwood trees with a chemical dye years before harvesting them, which stained the grain pattern of the living wood from the inside out. The resulting veneer, once harvested and applied to the back, sides, and headstock, carries color patterns that are completely random and unrepeatable — no two Wildwood instruments look identical because no two trees absorb dye identically. Wildwood guitars were available in gold, brown, purple, dark blue, purple-blue, green, or blue-green — the specific color of each instrument determined entirely by the tree. The 2012 Elvis Kingman recreates this process for the back and sides, producing the same genuinely one-of-a-kind visual character that made the original 1960s Wildwood instruments so distinctive. 

The Viking-shaped rosewood bridge with compensated saddle, double checkerboard soundhole rosette, and ivoroid binding complete the period-correct body specification. The Fender Stratocaster-style headstock carries Elvis Presley's signature — the visual detail that distinguishes it from a generic Kingman reissue. Solid spruce top, rosewood fingerboard with pearloid block inlays on a maple neck, 14" fingerboard radius, 20 frets, 25.3" scale, 1-5/8" nut. At 4 lbs 1.5 oz this is an exceptionally light dreadnought. Action set at 2/32" on both strings at the twelfth fret. Very good condition throughout. Non-original Guild hardshell case in very good condition included.

SPECIFICATIONS:

• Color: natural
• Finish Original?: yes
• Finish Condition: very good
• Weight: 4lbs 1.5oz
• Scale Length: 25.3"
• Nut Width: 1-5/8"
• Neck Thickness At 1st Fret: .825"
• Neck Thickness At 10th Fret: .971"
• Fretboard Radius: 14"
• String Spacing At Bridge: 2.192"
• Body Length: 20-1/8"
• Lower Bout: 15-5/8"
• Waist: 10-1/2"
• Upper Bout: 11-3/8"
• Body Depth/Thickness: 4-3/4"
• Overall Length: 42-1/4"
• Pickguard Color: 3 ply gold
• Pickguard Original?: yes
• Strap Buttons: yes
• Neck Condition: excellent
• Neck Repairs: none
• Tuner Brand And Model: Fender vintage style
• Tuners Original?: yes
• Changes To Headstock For Tuners?: none
• Truss Rod Cover: none
• Nut Original: yes
• Nut Material: synthetic bone
• Nut Repairs: none
• Inlay: Pearloid block
• Fretboard Material: rosewood
• Fretboard Condition: excellent
• Fretboard Repairs: none
• Fret Condition: excellent
• Fret Repairs: none
• Fret Count: 20
• Top Material: spruce
• Top Condition: very good
• Top Cracks: none
• Top Repairs: none
• Top Binding: yes
• Top Binding Condition: very good
• Back & Side Material: Laminated "Wildwood" (randomly dyed beechwood)
• Back & Side Condition: excellent
• Back & Side Repairs: none
• Back & Side Binding: yes
• Bracing Material: spruce
• Bracing Condition: excellent
• Bridge Wood: rosewood
• Bridge Original?: yes
• Bridge Condition: excellent
• Bridge Pins: white plastic 
• Bridge Plate Material: rosewood
• Bridge Plate Condition: excellent
• Bridge Plate Original?: yes
• Saddle Material: synthetic bone
• Saddle Original?: yes
• Saddle Condition: very good
• Pickup System: none
• Pickup System Original Or Added: n/a
• Pickup System Brand And Model: n/a
• Case Brand: Guild
• Case Original?: no
• Case Condition: very good
• Case Smells?: none
• Accessories Included: none
• String Gauge: 12-53
• Action 1st String At 12th Fret: 2/32"
• Action 6th String At 12th Fret: 2/32"
• Documentation: none
• Smells?: none
  
  

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