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bassintom wrote:

So many Duo Sonics makes me want a Duo Sonic

Makes me wish I never sold mine to serfx..

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and i'm digging it!

Haze wrote:aah i need to find pickgaurds cheap pickgaurds for these haha
i could do the all black but i still would have a maple neck onnit

yea, like I said in another thread black+black+maple=sex. it sucks it's so hard to find those pickguards. WD Music has them but they're like extortionist prices.

i might have to dew it...
i guess i could spend over 30 for a proper black pickgaurd

fuck all you gotta do is send your pickgutard in the mail to robOG and he will make you a copy in black.


or if he don't want to mo can fucking do it. dude needs practice n shit right?

robroe wrote:fuck all you gotta do is send your pickgutard in the mail to robOG and he will make you a copy in black.


or if he don't want to mo can fucking do it. dude needs practice n shit right?

robroe has the game down.

got my black robroes and mustang knobs in the post today
wired in some better [actual alnico] pickups in [instead of ceramic]
will post pics of it all put together shortly
the thing looks SEXY

will keep an eye on a black guard, if nothing comes up i'll buy some blank stuff and dew it myself

squire routes these things to fuck


but damn does it look good


plack guard for 30!
http://guitarpartsresource.com/pickguards_duosonic.htm

must buy

Haze wrote:plack guard for 30!
http://guitarpartsresource.com/pickguards_duosonic.htm

must buy

that's not for the reissue, that's for the vintage. this is for the reissue:
http://www.wdmusic.com/pickguard_dsr_900.html

I want one...

Does this count?

MMPicker wrote:Does this count?


http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/2161/img0255lw1.jpg

Musicmaster II with added bridge pickup? It sure does.

guitarist for DMBQ



hmm, I was trying to find a newer picture showing how he's modded it...



in the latest issue of spin (the one with M.I.A. on the cover) there is a huge photo splash page where you can see it though.

Well allrighty then here's mine:

zenpharaohs wrote:Well allrighty then here's mine:

Good start, looking goood.

zenpharaohs wrote:

WOAH WHAT!?

hahaha

Good God, man... Why?

laterallateral wrote:Good God, man... Why?

It's an interesting story. I was thinking about getting a custom guitar built - pretty much equivalent of an Anderson Cobra with a short scale, and we did this to see what it might end up sounding like. At the time (about 1996), we used a 1993 MIM Duo Sonic as the starting point because (and I consulted a prominent vintage dealer on this very question) I didn't want to hack up anything that people were going to consider "vintage"...

That being said, the bottom line it this is a killer guitar. It's strung with 12s and it rings like a bell. I haven't been here long enough to know, but I suppose there is a healthy complement of alt-style people here. Other than liking some of Nels Cline's work with Wilco, I'm pretty much an alt- skeptic, if not an outright alt- denialist.

My wife just got another 1993 MIM Duo Sonic for my seven year old son. And, although that one is really nice (although the bridge pickup is dead) it has some of the intonation issues you would expect with the original Duo Sonic bridge.

In the intervening years, I haven't found a custom builder who would do anything in this short a scale. One of the reasons I joined this site when I found out about it is to ask if there are any custom builders who work in short scale.

Eventually, (meaning if I retire soon enough) I will probably try building my own.

Well, that's a good guitar story.
I personally think it doesn't look good but I'm not the one playing it, so who gives a shit, right?

alt-denialist, eh?
That sounds awfully restrictive to me.
Surely you don't mean to say that you make a point of listening to nothing but bland, overplayed, formulaic pop music.

zenpharaohs wrote:
In the intervening years, I haven't found a custom builder who would do anything in this short a scale. One of the reasons I joined this site when I found out about it is to ask if there are any custom builders who work in short scale.

Eventually, (meaning if I retire soon enough) I will probably try building my own.

RObert Original!