Fender Maurauder - The Fender Maurauder is a at-one-time unreleased guitar design, originally designed as a 25.5" Scale offset model in 1965 with 4 pickups hidden under the pickguard, expanded switching options to those pickups on the lead circuit, and a stratocaster Tremolo. It's unknown if any of these original "concealed pickup" prototypes survived those seen in pictures in Fender literature around the time these were made. A real curiosity for sure that many independant builders have attempted to create their own reproductions of these guitars, or clones using more conventional pickups. Toward the later end of the 1960's, Fender designed a new version featuring 3 Fender Jaguar pickups in a Stratocaster-like configuration, and even further expanded switching using tilt-switches, and a new Mustang derived vibrato unit type design. Fender FINALLY released a version of the Maurauder sometime in the 2010's as a part of their "Modern Player" series. The production Maurauder model featured a Jazzmaster pickup in the neck position, a Quad-Coil Humbucker in the bridge, STrat trem, and 4-way pickup switching. This made for a very unique guitar with a cool design that never really caught on too well unfortunatley, as all three variations have some real potential.

Fender Maverick/Custom - The Fender Maverick/Custom was Fender's design intended to use up spare parts leftover after the XII's discontinuation. What we basically have here, is something like a "Alembic-Ized" full scale Fender Mustang (25.5" Scale) with a very weird headstock. What Fender did was took the XII "Chassis", and routed it for a Mustang Trem after filling in the through body metal block for the 12-string feature, and filled in six of the 12 holes in the headstock for the machine heads - and that's about it. The model only ever came originally in 3-tone Sunburst with the back painted fully black to hide all the wood filling Fender had to do to cover up where the XII hardware was originally located. Like the XII before it, the model only lasted until 1970 or 1971, and therefore is very hard to come by and not particularly common. Unlike the XII, Fender has reprised it a few times in Custom Shop editions that change the design up (Bigsby Vibratos, Mini Humbuckers, etc.), but never a budget or mid-tier model, likely because there's not as much interest for one as there have been no famously well known players of one.

Fender Starcaster - The Fender Starcaster is a very interesting Offset-Waist Semi-Hollow electric-acoustic guitar introduced in 1976, and discontinued in the fall of 1980. The Starcaster was Fender's true competitior to Gibson's ES-series "Jazz Boxes" as a lot of people called them, particularly the ES-330. The Starcaster shared a set of Fender "Wide Range" Humbucker pickups designed by the original Gibson humbucker designer - Seth Lover - in 1972 for the Tele Custom, Telecaster Deluxe, and Telecaster Bass models, but using unique rare-earth CuNiFe (Cobalt Nickel Ferrite) Magnets to give it a unique sound all it's own. In more recent years, more artists such as Leo Nocentelli of The Meters and Johnny Greendwood of Radiohead have started using these guitars, making them popular-ish and desirable enough for Fender to start producing both Fender and Squier branded variants of these models starting toward the 2010's.

Fender Prodigy - The Fender Prodigy was a offset-waist Superstrat released in 1991 and discontinued in 1993. It featured a 25.5" Scale 22 fret neck with a small headstock, and an offset waist (possibly slightly less than a Jaguar and Jazzmaster) body with pointy super-strat like "Body horns" as found on Jackson/Charvel/Kramer guitars popular during it's introduction and for awhile prior. They came with both a regular Stratocaster tremolo, and a recessed Kahler Spyder vibrato unit depending on feature package. They never really took off since Grunge basically killed off the "super STrat" genre the same year it was introduced (Nirvana's Nevermind came out in September 1991). There was also a Squier variant at one point. I have played one of these and they are awesome and highly underrated guitars (actually, a blue one with EMG's at one point almost became my first guitar until it sold before I could get it). That said, they are far more conventional by design and something you'd probably relate to more on my regular gear page, as they use a pretty standard "shredder" whammy system, and pretty standard HSS "Fat Strat" type wiring. But they are an offset waist guitar nonetheless, just a bit more conventional than most other efforts.

Squier Venus - The Squier Venus is a guitar based on a guitar built by Mercury guitars of Atlanta Georgia, which was used by Courtney Love of Hole (ya' know, Kurt's widow) and released within a year of the Fender Jag-Stang and a little before the Venus series offsets. It features a hot humbucker in the bridge, and a angled single coil in the neck, with a Adjust-o-matic bridge, and through body stringing. They came in sea-foam green, coral pink, black, and sunburst it seems. There was also a less common 12-string model.

Fender Cyclone - The Fender Cyclone was seemingly another response to the popularity of the Mustang and what they were trying to achieve with the Jag-Stang. It's basically a Gibson-scale Mustang with a Stratocaster tremolo. There were 2 pickup configurations - 2 pickups SH with a toggle switch, with a hot humbucker at the bridge, and a single coil angled in the neck like an old 50's Duo-Sonic, and a second version with three Jaguar pickups controlled via a Jaguar control plate on the treble side of the pickguard. The latter is far less common than the former, and the former had a Squier version as well made in the early 2000's.

Fender Tornado - The Fender Tornado was meant to be a Gibson competitor, same scale length as a Gibson guitar (24.75" scale), 22 frets, and a bigger, rounder, offset body with 2 humbuckers, a 3-way switch, and invididual volume and tone for each pickup. It featured a six saddle Musicmaster Vista/Tornado bridge on it and was a bit of a semi-popular choice for awhile.

	Joe Maphis Doubleneck - This was the later version of the Joe Maphis model, which is a true offset in the same sense as a Jaguar or Jazzmaster.
	The Ventures - The original Ventures model was built on the bones of the pre-1963 Joe Maphis Mosrite single-neck omdels. It features a "Reverse Offset" body somewhat resembling a left-handed Stratocaster in shape, but with the waist shifted. It features a white pickguard down the treble side of the body with 1 volume, 1 tone, and a 3-way switch, and 2 unique, often hand-made Mosrite pickups of rather hot output. This is the model that put Mosrite on the map because of the Venture's use of it heavily starting around 1962 onward. When most people say "Mosrite" this is the guitar they are thinking about. It was copied by other makers including Matsamoku for Univox as the "Univox Hi-Flier" guitars - which helped popularize this design in the early 1990's. Famous players included the Ventures, Ricky Wilson of the B-52's (he usually used these for DADxBB tuning ala "Hot Lava" and "Give Me back my Man"), and both of the guitarists in the Delta Riggs played them when I saw them on tour (they had a vintage white recent-vintage model). It also features a Rodger Romeissel style "German Carve" around the edge of the body giving it's distinctive classy looks, and came with a few different vibrato units, including a very early attempt at a compensated vibrato by shifting the height of the string holes in the tailpiece.
	The Ventures II - Came in both Slab Body and German Carve variants, with the best known being the "Slab Style" most associated with Joey Ramone of The Ramones, in both stock and customized format. These had unique pickups in a straight configuration, a rounded pickguard, a unique, stamped vibrato design, and were intended as a mid-tier or budget model in the Mosrite product line. However, the best known configuration is the Joey Ramone setup which features a Gibson Firebird style mini-humbucker in the neck position, and a an angled Telecaster style pickup in the bridge, with the bridge system replaced with a Gibson TUne-O-Matic/Stoptail type setup (and usually painted white with a black pickguard). The second version of the Ventures II looks like the Mark IV and the Mark V model I have shown below (as well as the Gospel guitar). Joey Ramone's custom Mosrite (or a clone thereof) used in the Ramones, probably one of the most famous Mosrite guitars in the world
	Mark V/Gosphel - These were actually designed by Semie's brother Andy Moseley. The Mosrite Ventures Mark V is a German carved Mosrite released in 1965 with a further in-set 24.5" scale bolt-on neck, and 2 straight Mosrite pickups with plain covers on the top. They came in red, white, blue, and sunburst, with a white pickguard, black pickups, and chrome Mosrite "tophat" knobs, and a Mosely vibrato unit. They were also sold toward the end of the sixties under the brand "Gospel", with the only example of this design in that name being one famously owned by Kurt Cobain of Nirvana. However, it's best known and most famous player is the late, great, Ricky Wilson of the B-52's who used a "1966 Ford Blue" one through his entire career with the band from 1977 till his untimely passing in 1985, usually tuned to CFxxFF for "Rock Lobster" and "Dance this Mess Around" with only 4 strings on it. Kurt's Gospel is the only known version of this guitar with Gospel branding.