so i was looking through the customer gallery at Warmoth custom guitars, and came across this entry:
Eric Baecht
Warmoth body, vintage 1964 Jazzmaster® style neck, Mastery Bridge, vintage pat pending tailpiece, Seymour Duncan Antiquity II pickups. Custom built for Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.
http://www.warmoth.com/gallery/image.../greenjazz.JPG
http://www.warmoth.com/Pages/Gallery...pe=MISC_GUITAR
(for second link you have to scroll through many guitars, T's is just past hideous carved "seduction" model)
Maybe it was a trial run before the Fender-Custom shop produced ones? Not sure that makes any sense though... Eric Baecht is the Sonic Youth guitar tech, and those do look like Lee's Jasper Johns-imitating Target painted grillcloth amps in the background. Note natural headstock color, not the black (which I never liked). Probably MUCH cheaper than the fender version. not sure if that pickguard is plastic or whatever metal was used on the sig model.
Couldn't find any equivalent of the Lee sig model on this site, though I'm sure they could do it...
Warmoth is really cool, I wish I could afford to order some custom guitars from them. I'm thinking a thinline '72 tele baritone with bigsby, dark colors, maybe all black. Maybe in a few years...