Fender A. Mooney Custom Shop World Stamp Collection Telecaster®, Rosewood Fingerboard, Stamps - French Equatorial Africa

We will be offering guitars for sale from Andy Mooney’s Custom Shop “Imagine” Stamp Collection with proceeds benefitting Los Angeles Wildfire Relief. As a Southern California guitar-maker for over 75 years, we are committed to help rebuild what our deep-rooted Los Angeles music scene has lost.

Created from the personal stamp collection of Fender CEO Andy Mooney, the Imagine Collection is an incredible display of craftsmanship, wonder and curiosity – a testament to Mooney’s long-held belief in the global power of music to help unite and heal.  

Each Stamp Collection Telecaster honors a different country, featuring on average 100 stamps from that country or region. All proceeds will directly benefit the L.A. music community. 

“I’d love if 25 years from now, for everybody who owns one of these to get together, shake hands. Not be at war with each other. That would be a dream come true.”

Andy Mooney

CEO Fender Musical Instruments

COUNTRY: French Equatorial Africa

*We immigrated to the US in 1984. I only brought two things with me - an acoustic guitar from my father, Fender of course, and the stamp collection that he and I worked on.

On a whim I took some of my UK stamps and made a guitar out of it. People liked it so much I kept picking other countries and the more countries I picked, the more interest grew in the collection so I decided, somewhat whimsically, I would do every country in the world.

I wanted to work on this with my daughter, Rose Mooney, so I asked her to design a neckplate that symbolized peace. I thought she'd go with the traditional dove iconography, but she picked a very simple flower graphic, which is the neckplate on all 195 country guitars.

It takes on average 100 stamps per guitar, so there are about 20,000 stamps used to develop the collection. They're all Telecasters, all the same color, same pickups, and they're all tonally functional, playable guitars.

People have asked me, what do you want to call the collection?' And the best word I can come up with is the IMAGINE COLLECTION, just based on John Lennon's dream. I'd love if 25 years from now, for everybody who owns one of these to get together, shake hands. Not be at war with each other. That would be a dream come true."

Andy Mooney

CEO Fender Musical Instruments

Specs:

Alder

Gloss Urethane

Maple, Modern "C"

Satin Urethane

Slab Rosewood, 9.5* (241 mm)

22 Jumbo

White Dots

Synthetic Bone, 1.685* (42.8mm)

Fender® ClassicGear®

25.5* (64.77 cm)

6-Saddie Strings-Through-Body Telo® with Block Steel Saddles

1-Ply Parchment

Yosemito® Single-Coil Telecaster® (Bridge and Neck)

3-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position

2. Bridge and Middlo Pickups, Position 3. Middlo Pickup Master Volume, Master Tone

Knurled Flat-Top Nickel/Chrome

Fender® USA 250L Nickel Plated Steel (.009-.042 Gauges)

Deluxe Hardshell