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Montego
After Rickenbacker, Rossmeisl joined Fender in 1962 and spent a decade there designing archtops, acoustics, and semi-hollows. The Telecaster Thinline was his most commercially successful Fender design — but the Montego and LTD are the ones that carry the direct lineage of the Roger-brand archtops he built in Germany and refined through his Rickenbacker years.
The Montego II is a full-hollow archtop with a spruce top and maple back and sides, bolt-on neck, and single-cutaway body — unmistakably in the Roger/Rickenbacker aesthetic tradition. The LTD, positioned above the Montego as Fender's most expensive electric guitar of the era, was a hand-carved instrument designed to compete with Gibson's Citation and Super 400 at the top of the jazz archtop market. Neither sold especially well. Both are now collected precisely because of that obscurity and because of what they represent: the furthest expression of Rossmeisl's archtop vision within an American mass-market company that was built on something else entirely.
