This is the rarest Duosonic out there from this period and is a mahogany body, translucent red variant. South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands GBP £Ī 1964 Fender Duo Sonic anyone? And not just any old 1964 Duo-sonic.Excellent - Condition.You're currently viewing prices in USD $. It is complete in the original HSC which shows some external wear, and a dead middle latch with the larger end latches working fine. It remains pretty much as it was played in the 1960's, Bodyguarded and unbowed. This is a fine sounding and playing Duo-Sonic, a guitar one writer once described as "the.
The rosewood fingerboard has very little wear as well. The original frets show some light wear in the lower positions but are still quite playable, with just some minor divoting mostly under the unwound strings. The back of the neck has very little wear, just a touch on the fingerboard edges. The top has a few small dings near the jack but no major wear, and the color has hardly faded at all. We see no reason not to leave this bit of clear plastic Fender whimsey in place, as it has been since 1966. That bodyguard has protected the lacquer finish on the back as intended, but left the telltale darkened stripe around the rim of the body as the foam padding deteriorated. This is a very nice Duo-Sonic overall, showing just some minor wear and remaining all original and unaltered, if one counts the additional piece of fender hardware as original. (3.8 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. (31.1 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 1 1/2 in. This one has the added oddity of a clear Fender Bodyguard mounted to the back, something we have never encountered on this model before! As usual this have left some discoloration along the body edge, but has protected the back handily as intended! Overall this is a very nicely preserved Duo-Sonic and a fine-playing, light, handy little guitar. It is often found to hold tuning more steadfastly, especially under a hard strummer's attack. 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. Something of a forgotten model by the guitar-boom mid-'60's, the Duo-Sonic sold just under 3,000 units in 1966 but was completely eclipsed in by the Mustang which sold nearly 18,000 units that year alone. The switches for the two pickups offer interesting in/out of phase sonic options, identical to the Mustang. The pots are marked to the 18th week of 1966.
The neck is dated to July 1966, just about a year and a half into the CBS era.
This was one of three spiffy color schemes offered, and we think the most attractive! The neck 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. This beautiful blue-finished 1966 example is trimmed with a pearl celluloid pickguard and black pickup covers and switches. It just goes to show how much a snazzy name and a whammy bar mattered to "the kids" in the mid-60's! By contrast the Duo-Sonic seemed to fade away, even though it was at that point exactly the same instrument, just without a vibrato. THAT guitar took off to become one of the most popular electrics of the 1960's, possibly the most successful student solidbody ever made. This Fender Duo-Sonic II was assembled just about two years after the model was redesigned in mid-1964 with components interchangeable with the new Mustang.
FENDER DUO SONIC GIG BAG SERIAL
Fender Duo-Sonic II Model Solid Body Electric Guitar (1966), made in Fullerton, California, serial # 145972, Daphne Blue lacquer finish, alder body, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, original grey hard shell case.
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