vintage dot and binding Mustang?

[N0_Camping4U]

Not too well versed in Mustang land, especially vintage. I kinda poked around Google, very briefly, but did Mustangs ever ship with D&B necks? I know it's Fender so anything is possible - but was it ever a thing? Or could you special order it?

[MattK]

I've never, ever seen nor heard of a Mustang from the vintage run with neck binding or blocks. The only Mustang I've seen with binding was the one-off Fender Japan hollowbody model which was available for about 2 weeks in the 2010s.

[Rob]

Not too well versed in Mustang land, especially vintage. I kinda poked around Google, very briefly, but did Mustangs ever ship with D&B necks? I know it's Fender so anything is possible - but was it ever a thing? Or could you special order it?

The old catalogs and price lists specify which options were available for Mustangs, such as standard colors vs. custom colors, and 24" neck vs. 22" neck, right-handed vs. left-handed, etc. But there's no options for binding on Mustang necks in any of the vintage literature.

Also worth remembering that people at the time who were willing to pay extra for off-menu customizations like neck binding typically weren't interested in cheap Mustangs.

Fender Japan, on the other hand, seems to enthusiastically offer any and every bell and whistle imaginable.