#FENDER DUO SONIC ELECTRIC GUITAR 2 FULL#
#FENDER DUO SONIC ELECTRIC GUITAR 2 SERIES#

This is a fine sounding and playing Duo-Sonic, a guitar one writer once described as 'the.

#FENDER DUO SONIC ELECTRIC GUITAR 2 FULL#

Look at our full product stack of Guitars, Basses as eletric and acoustic, Amps, Ukuleles and Effects. The rosewood fingerboard has some light wear and a small but noticeable dink above the 6th fret. Home of Harley Benton Guitars and other products. The original frets have been crowned down a bit but are still quite playable, with some light divoting in the lower positions. The back of the neck has some spots worn down to the wood on the spine and in the lower positions. The fairly thick lacquer finish shows a lot of scuffing on the back, some wear through the overcoat and small dings and dents but no major wear areas. This is a very nice example overall, showing some general wear but remaining all original and unaltered. (3.8 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. (31.1 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 1 1/2 in. This is a very nicely preserved example and a fine-playing, light, handy little guitar.Overall length is 39 7/8 in. With its string-through body-mounted bridge, the Duo-Sonic II is a more solid-feeling instrument than the tremolo-equipped Mustang it shares all other features with and is often found to hold tuning more steadfastly. Then production was shifted to China, and. The switches for the two pickups offer interesting in/out of phase sonic options, identical to the Mustang.Something of a forgotten model in the mid-'60's, the Duo-Sonic was eclipsed in the mid-'60s by the Mustang which sold over 16,000 units in 1966 alone. The original Duo-Sonic was a beginner's electric guitar with a. This has the longer of two scale lengths offered, 24' (shared with most examples of the Mustang) which most players find friendlier than the very short 22 1/2' scale the Duo-sonic started out with in 1957. The neck is dated to March 1966, just over a year into the CBS era.

It just goes to show how much a snazzy name and a whammy bar mattered in the mid-60's! This red-finished 1965 example has a pearl celluloid pickguard with black pickup covers and switches that was the most popular color scheme.

By contrast the Duo-Sonic seemed to fade away, even though it was at that point the same instrument without a vibrato. Description A modernized version of a student-turned-classic instrument originally released in 1956, the Duo-Sonic HS models compact form belies its giant. THAT guitar took off to become one of the most popular electrics of the 1960's, possibly the most successful student solidbody ever made. Fender Player Duo-Sonic HS Electric Guitar, Maple Fretboard, Sienna Sunburst. This Fender Duo-Sonic II was assembled about two years after the model was redesigned in mid-1964 with components interchangeable with the new Mustang. Pickups: middle and bridge position from '70s Fujigen (Japan) Strat copyĬondition notes: body shows wear and tear and everything is non-original.Fender Duo-Sonic II Model Solid Body Electric Guitar (1966), made in Fullerton, California, Dakota Red finish, alder body, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard. Neck feel: medium C/soft V shape, ~9.5' radius board Setup notes: the neck is straight, the truss rod works, the frets have plenty of life in them, and action is spot-on at 1/16' overall at the 12th fret. Harness has 500k pots and a 010 Mallory cap. Repairs included: a fret level/dress, fresh wiring harness, fitting of parts, minor bridge mods, setup. It also has the vibe of an earlier '50s Duo Sonic with its pre-offset body shape and 1-ply guard. Coda Music Gibson, Fender, Marshall Guitar and Amplifier Store Coda Music - suppliers of Guitars and Amplifiers including Marshall, Gibson and Fender Les. It sounds like a 'grown-up' Duo Sonic, really.

#FENDER DUO SONIC ELECTRIC GUITAR 2 SERIES#

The two-pickup mount gives a bright, clean, clear sound reminiscent of a Strat but with a bit more chime and a simpler series of overtones.

It's light and easy to handle yet has good sustain and snap because of the steep back-angle on the Tele saddles and the hardtail mounting. This design, mixed with the lightweight basswood body, makes a really fun guitar.

Mix-in a good wiring harness, aluminum Tele-style saddles, and some '70s Fujigen Strat pickups (they're flush-poles so they're more like Mustang/Duo Sonic pickups), and this is what came out the other side. Then I picked-up a WD repro pickguard for it in 1-ply black. I found a 2000 Mexican Strat neck ('50s vintage-style) to use with it because I noted that the bridge location doesn't match-up with any normal Fender-style neck you'd expect to use on it (24' scale Mustang or Jaguar neck) but that it works 'close enough' with 25 1/2' scale necks. He traded it towards some work and it has just the right amount of finish grunge, finish cracking, and wear to give it a lived-in feel. My friend Steve bought this Mexican-made '95 Duo Sonic body (these were meant for a really-short-scale instrument) to mate with an old '60s Fender neck on a super-secret project, but wound-up finding an original Duo Sonic body to use instead.

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