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Duo-Sonic II

Duo-Sonic II Guitar
Duo-Sonic II Guitar
Fender (CBS)
Duo-Sonic Series
U.S.A.
Available 1965 to 1969
Standard Colors: Dakota Red, Olympic White, Daphne Blue.
Pick Ups: 2 Single-Coil Pickups.
Body: Alder.
Neck: Maple.
Fingerboard: Rosewood.
Number of Frets: 21.
Scale Length: 22 ½ inches.
Options: Double-cutaway Slab Body
Angled Pickups
Nickel Hardware
Kluson Deluxe Tuners With White Plastic Buttons
Plastic Pickguard with Chrome Control Cover
Tortoise Shell Plastic Pickguard with Black Pickup Covers (Olympic White Finish)
1 Volume Control
1 Tone Control
2 3-way Pickup Control Switches Above Each Pickup (On-Off-Reverse Phase)
Optional "Long" Scale (24 ¾") Neck

1966 Changes:
Fender "F" Tuners

1967 Changes:
Short Scale Option Discontinued
Duo-Sonic II Guitar

Six months after the mid-1964 redesign of the Duo-Sonic, the same guitar received a name change for 1965.

Note that both the long and short scale versions were available at the same time, through 1967 when the short scale was discontinued. The 1965 rename to Duo-Sonic II was a rename of BOTH models, not just the long scale version.

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Hardtail Mustang Heaven

Quality: 9 Features: 9 Sound: 9 Playability: 10 Value: 10 Overall: 9.40

Review by: Jimmy the Saint from England, Apr 15 2008 12:24PM

Originally Bought Used in 2007 in Black (repainted from Olympic white).

Jimmy the Saint's Style: Rock, Grunge

This is a cracking little guitar. Mine is a 3/4 length version which has a great tone, and a beautiful, slim neck that is the fastest and nicest I've ever played. It IS a Fender mustang, minus the patented Fender bridge, but who really uses a tremelo these days anyway? It certainly doesn't go out of tune as often as a trem model and doesn't require a complicated locking down procedure to render it inoperable, a la Kurt Cobain. It's a Mustang with a simple, low maintainance bridge. I've not played a '60s Mustang, but I can tell you that my vintage Duo-Sonic II plays immeasurably better than the new Japanese Mustangs, and indeed, better than all of the modern US Fenders I've played recently (Jaguar, Telecaster, Stratocaster). I love mine and wouldn't part with it.
I would like to know what they go for these days in the UK, though, just for reference. They are a very under-rated, under-valued, and (due to them being broken for Mustang parts) increasingly rare guitar. Mustang's of the same age as mine go for over a grand, in the UK.
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The Duo Sonic 2

Quality: 10 Features: 10 Sound: 10 Playability: 10 Value: 10 Overall: 10.00

Review by: Jan Hall from jhall230@comcast.net, Jun 11 2007 7:33PM

Best little guitar I ever had. I still look for it everywhere. I wish I would have kept mine now I'm sorry I didn't . Does any one know where I might find one. I bought mine in Dec. 1968. It was White with a red pick gaurd. Later on I had it painted orange which I regret.
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