![]() The original nitro lacquer Daphne Blue finish exhibits some small small nicks, largely on the back and body perimeter, faint buckle rash at the bass-side waist, and also a couple lines of cable worming on the back. Stock plastics include the white pearloid pickguard and original pair of knobs and pickup covers. The original bridge is present, fitted with a modern trio of threaded saddles, and the chrome hardware is bright and clean with very light surface pitting. Both black bobbin pickups are original, and the leads on the bridge coil have been spliced and resoldered. The electronics all work as intended, and the original Stackpole pots date to '66. The headstock face retains the original "Fender Duo Sonic II" decal, and the neck heel has a bold July, 1967 stamp, along with "paint stick" markings in the neck pocket indicative of an original nitro lacquer finish. On the headstock, a vintage set of Fender F tuners with hexagonal white buttons function as intended, fitted with a pair of modern bushings, as a different tuner set was installed at one point in the instrument's lifetime. The scale length is 24" (the longer of the two scale lengths offered on the Duo Sonic II), and the modern nut measures 1 5/8" in width. The truss rod is responsive and optimally adjusted, and the guitar plays cleanly in all registers up the straight neck. The rosewood fretboard has a 7 1/4" radius with pearloid dot inlay, refretted with flawless slender fretwire. The maple neck has a medium C-shaped profile carve with notably round shoulders and lightly rolled fretboard edges, measuring. Featherweight at 6lbs 7oz, this Duo Sonic has been professionally setup here at Mike & Mike's Guitar Bar with a fresh set of 11-49 strings, low action, and accurate intonation. ![]() The Duo Sonic also has the added benefit of a pair of three-way on/off/on pickup switches for an out-of-phase hollow twang and quack when the switches are engaged in their innermost or outermost positions. These flat pole alnico magnet single coils have a bold, bell-like cut in the neck position, and more upper midrange authority and snappy twang at the bridge. Essentially a hardtail version of the Mustang, this Duo Sonic II has a clear, smooth acoustic voice that translates well through the original black bobbin pickups with great presence and treble-centric sparkle. Though again get a tech to fit it for you so that it can be balanced with the incumbent bridge pickup.Up for sale, a 1967 Fender Duo Sonic II in excellent condition and in perfect working order, complete with the original hardshell case. But then, yes, a SD antiquity should give you more clarity and high end. Get a tech to do this for you - they can choose the optimal capacitor for your tone pot and make sure that your neck and bridge pickups balance well (pickup heights might need adjusting) so that you can switch between them and get a range of usable tones. (Although you might find yourself enjoying the tone control more with an upgraded pot). For example, bypass the tone pot on the neck pickup if you always want it to be bright.no tone loss as it goes through the tone knobs circuit. This way, you could also consider some custom wiring. Change your switch too many of them are noisy. This will more than likely brighten your overall tone (as the cap on the stock tone pot is not great quality), give you a more usable range/sweep of volume and tone settings, and upgrades are likely to be way more reliable (the stock ones are often noisy when you turn them and sound dull too quickly when you drop below 10). If you have the stock volume and tone pots, I'd consider upgrading them first. ![]() The link to the fender page doesn't work, but I'm assuming that you have a relatively new duo sonic hs - I think they were made from 2017-20, something like that. With all respect to the above suggestions I am not aware of any empirical evidence that shows that longer scale necks give an inherently brighter tone.Īnyway the point is that you can get your neck pickup brighter.
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