JohnnyTheBoy wrote: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 neck and rosewood fret board. It is painted with nitro cellulose lacquer. For the clay dots on the neck I used a two part wood filler from Home Depot. The bridge is an original 60s that I got off eBay. The pickguard material I got from Grizzly Supply. I didn't have access to a real Duo Sonic so I collect numerous photos from the internet. I first started with scaling up drawings off the fender website for the current made Duo Sonic, but was fortunate enough to hookup with cooterfinger and he supplied me with the correct drawings of the body and routing layout. For the pickguard I simply blew up photos to fit the drawing layout. The neck is the shorter 22.5" scale as I wanted to build it as original to the one I had way back when.
As for the Champ, I bought a chassis from Angela's. I had a bunch of parts from other amp projects, so it was a matter of scrounging a few extra parts which I bought from Antique Electronic Supply and from Weber. I also used Weber's schematic and layout plans. The cabinet I built from pine, though not finger jointed. The tweed and grill cloth was left over material from amps that I had restored. Hope I'm not off track discussing an amp build on this forum. Here's a few shots of the amp construction.
The Tweed Deluxe behind the Champ was my first project with electronics. The reverb unit in front of my 65 Bandmaster ( I bought it new while in Germany with I was in the Army) I scratch built a couple years ago when I started playing with a Surf band. The grill cloth on the reverb is remnants from a totaled 67 Bandmaster that I restored for a band mate.
Regarding other guitars I've built, they are of the Mosrite design and I'm not sure a double neck Mosrite would be acceptable to post on a short scale forum. I'm probably stretching the forum rules by posting these Champ photos.
