That's right, the anodized guards are 8 hole, the tan guard from '59 and later versions have 12. The body rout is slightly different as well to support an extra screw near the jack socket.

Marcel Roy's site on Duos and Musicmasters is a fantastic resource for anyone after info on them!

Looks great, enormous improvement on the black. Nice job!

Stunning. Hard to believe it's not a new guitar.

If Fender are taking notes, FSR Modern Player Coronado in Shoreline Gold please!

Cheers! The lipstick was something I had hanging around from another project, and the bridge pickup that belonged to the Duo originally turned out to be dead so I went with the lipstick. It sounds ok but very twangy to the point of being unusable for anything other than crazy psychobilly , so I thin...

I've tried the Vox guitars. They're very Strat like, aside for the fact they're impossible to hold without a strap. Quality was good on the ones I've seen, Modern Player sort of level. I believe there's another company who make more historically accurate copies and own the rights to the Phantom and ...

Fantastic job, looks great. I've been working on a couple of Duo Sonic projects similar to this- such a shame so many of them end up parted out on Ebay, but always great to see one restored and back in action.

Hi there, Been enjoying browsing the project threads on here over the last few weeks and thought I'd introduce myself with a project of my own... I bought this guitar new in 1998 and it was always a guitar I kind of liked, but due to the very short scale I didn't play it that often, and consequently...