Fender Electric XII

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The Fender Electric XII was a purpose-built 12-string electric guitar, designed for folk rockers. Instead of using a Stratocaster-body style, it used one with a Jaguar/Jazzmaster body style. It was also a departure from the typical "Stratocaster"-style headstock, instead featuring a long headstock nicknamed the "hockey-stick" headstock. The Electric XII featured two split single-coil pickups (similar to the ones used on the P-bass) and fairly simple electronics. It used the traditional Fender string-through-body shape to help sustain.

The Electric XII was not particularly popular during its run, and by 1969, it was dropped from the Fender line.

Some notable users of the Electric XII were Pete Townshend, who used it extensively on the album "Tommy", folk-rocker Tim Buckley, and Jimmy Page, who used it on Led Zeppelin's famous Stairway to Heaven on the studio recording. Johnny Winter also used one briefly (strung as a regular six-string) during the late 1960s and early 1970s.