BROADCASTER Leo bought the machine to make the truss rod from Race & Olmsted on 3 October 1950 and production started at the end of the month. Innovative, as always, Leo had devised a new technique to insert the truss rod in the neck by making a longitudinal incision on the back of the neck, subsequently filled with a strip of walnut. The characteristic look that this gave the neck of the guitar earned it the nickname skunk stripe. The reinforced necks could also be recognized by the small tear-shaped plug on the headstock, nicknamed walnut plug, which covered the fastening point of the truss rod. However, for aesthetic reasons, Leo preferred using maple as the filling wood on the very first guitars; these guitars thus appeared not to have a truss rod. Don Randall had decided to call the two-pickup truss rod model Broadcaster because radio broadcasting was very popular in the 1940s: “For Leo Fender's first smash guitar, I thought and thought about what to call it. I finally decided to use something that had to do with broadcasting. I named it Broadcaster”. The first flyers promoting the Broadcaster guitar were published in a magazine at the end of 1950, as an addition to the catalogue, and in February 1951 on Musical Merchandise. . . . . . . . . #3dart #3ds #3dmodel #3dartist #3drender #3dvisualization #artoftheday #artcollector #digitalart #digital_art #nftcollectibles #nftcollection #guitar #guitars #guitarlife #guitarporn #guitarlove #fendertelecaster #fenderguitars #fenderguitar #nftart #guitarworld #guitardaily #guitarcollection #guitarsecret #guitarart #guitarartist #guitarpick #guitarelectric #guitarcollector (at Bangkok, Thailand) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck_KE2Lq1jR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=