Vintage 1965 Fender Duo-Sonic II White with OHSC

For fans of shorter scale guitars, or just vintage Fenders in general, or those that crave vintage without hefty price tags, we have a little something unique for you: Duo-Sonic II from 1965.  It's surely not something you see every day.

The Duo-Sonic first debuted in 1956 as Fender's first student model as a 22.5" scale guitar, mean to be easier for kids and beginers to pick up.  It was made to be a deuluxe upgrade from the Musicmaster.  Here's a Duo-Sonic II from 1965, just after it was redesigned.  Over the years, Duo-Sonic gained status as a cult favorite, and used by a diverse roster of players.....starting with Hendrix, to Cobain, to modern players in indie rock bans, this model has been put to good use.

In 1964 the Duo-Sonic was redesigned so that all of Fender's student guitars featured larger and slightly offset bodies, necks with larger headstocks and rosewood fingerboards, and plastic pickguards with the volume and tone controls mounted on a separate metal plate.  The selector switches were moved above the pickups; the guitar utilizes two 3-position on-off-on switches that allowed for in and out-of-phase sounds. The pickups are reverse-wound/reverse-polarity, turning them into a functional humbucker when both pickups are used simultaneously. You get the classic alder body, two single-coil pickups and what seen as an innovative bridge at the time.  This one has an L series serial number, normally associated with 1964 but we dated it to 1965.