Pickups: Original 64' musicmaster pickups. Pickguard: Original tortoise shell musicmaster pickguard with original alluminum guard underneath Tuning Machines: Original Fender single line kluson tuners Neck: April 1964 Maple Neck, A neck width (narrowest)įretboard: Brazilian Rosewood 7.25" radius Compare prices and shop Fender Duo-Sonic II Electric Guitars on Reverb. It also features a shorter scale than your average Strat or Tele, which makes it a cool choice for someone with smaller hands. The Fender Duo-Sonic II, only produced for four years in the mid-to-late '60s, was the dual-pickup counterpart of the Fender Musicmaster, which were both some of Fender's first student-specific guitars. Absolutely nothing has been tampered with The Fender Music Master is a guitar that was introduced by Fender in the late fifties to have an instrument that was very simple in the features department (and in the price department) for the younger starting player. Thank you for looking, check out the specs below.Įlectronics: All original electronics, Completely untouched, pickups date to Jun 24th 1964, pots 20th week of 1964Ĭondition: All original parts and finish. The pickup height is exactly where it's supposed to be and the entire instrument was cleaned and hydrated. That means relief, action, intonation, nut height is all precise down to the micrometer. We have made sure that this instrument is as perfect as possible out the box. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy the pictures. This instrument is 100% original and 100% playable, quite rare for an instrument of thats age. The tuners turn great and the electronics are perfect. The neck has absolutely no humps and the frets have tons of life left.
The pickgaurd has started to slightly warp around the neck pickup, but thats expected and not noticable unless really looking at it from an angle. This piece has your typical aged olympic white with dings and scratches that are all pictured, but without them this instrument wouldn't feel as old and special. The 100% original olympic white finish that lays right below that juicy nitrocellulose brings you so much closer to the instrument than poly and is just inspiring to hold, after all the first thing you do when you pickup a guitar is hold the neck and body. This piece is made of 57 year old alder which has lost all its moisture over time and rings like a bell, the old wood is where the vintage tone lies, and how the pickups were wound by experts back in the day, theres no question these old musicmaster pickups produce that vintage woody neck pickup tone we all adore.
Fender couldnt make a bad guitar at the time and although some are better than others, they are definitley far more supreme than any reissue today. These retailed at half the price of a strat and were a student model, but retained all the same craftsmanship, parts, and construction as your 20,000$ strat. Fender Musicmaster II with Rosewood Fretboard 1964 - 1969 Olympic White. Now Why a musicmaster?Īside from being a great invesment and addition to your collection (you can never go wrong with vintage fenders) these guitars are so approachable and slinky and fun to play. Also planning on getting some of that rust off the tuners and saddles and figuring out what to do with the nut.Dear future owner, this musicmaster is completely original, with its original case, with 0 neck problems, and its never been tampered with. I'm planning on stripping the finish, smoothing out the body before adding a new nitro finish. The G string is resting in a minor crater and the A string is sitting a bit deeper than I like: The original nut needs a little TLC (or replacement). Some real-life relic rust on the tuners and bridge saddles: Whoever did the deed got a little eager with the rasp around the curves and edges. Seems like it's all original except stripped daphne blue finish and a '72 neck plate, likely added then it was refinished with some sort of semi-sticky clear coat that now smells of nicotine. The gray bottom pickup is dated 10/26/64 and measures 4.67k - kinda sounds like a '60s Strat's neck pickup! It's a really fun guitar, perfect for working on songs when you're switching between chords and pen and paper, playing on the couch - but it can also hold its own. I couldn't pass up this beat up lil' '64 Fender Musicmaster with a lovely ¾ neck dated Sep 64.
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