benecol wrote:Don't be daft; would love to see them. The Champ's great, too. Out of interest, what do you do for a living?

I'm retired and spend most of my (free ) time playing around with guitars, amps and music. Here's a link to my bands website. Turn on your speakers. www.thetsunamisurfers.com

I you dont mind me asking, which materials did you use for them both? ...did you make the neck a 24" or age correct 22.5" scale?.. cheers... I'm not sure I understand the question on material used for both, so the following maybe a little over kill. The body on the Duo Sonic is Ash, maple...

cooterfinger wrote:Welcome aboard Danny. Beautiful job. Sweet looking decal as well.

Hey pard, thanks for the welcome. I'd give credit where credit was due but I can't remember if you sent me the drawing for the body shape and rout locations or designed the logo. Getting old sucks!

Thanks everyone for the kind replies. Yes, I scratch built basically all the parts, body, neck, fret board, truss rod, pickguard plus mixed the color pigments to achieve the color. As for pickups, they are a set of MIJ 80's Fender Strat that had the staggered poles. I press the poles level, bought a...

Hello, My name is Danny and I am new to the forum, well, at least this is may fist post but I signed up a year ago. About a year or so ago I got the bug for a Duo Sonic as I had one back in 1959-60, but I later traded it in on my 62 Stratocaster which I still have. At any rate I scrounged around and...