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    FENDER LEAD III

    May 21, 2020 3 minutes
    WORDS BY ROB LAING.

    RRP: $1,199

    Guitars are discontinued for all kinds of reasons – some simply don’t connect with enough players and for others it just isn’t their time… Reissues can give lost gems a second life; a chance to find the fanbase that eluded them first time around. Which brings us here for the encore of the Fender Lead. It wasn’t exactly a flash in the pan design originally, though.

    Produced between 1979 and 1982,

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