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sooooooooooo, Mr Mustache was kind enoght o swap me his MIM Fender Duosonic, and I have begun pimping the motherfucker.
It's surprisingly comfortable, especially for a guy who has troubl with 24" scale. (this one is one of those wierd 22.7")
I was going to put a spare full scale neck on it, but the mounting holes are off, and I didn't feel like drilling and fucking with shit. anyway, here's the stock guitar.



First I went to string it up. Whoops, I htought I had at least 4 of the strings I wanted.



Long story short, I found the two coolest knobs in the shop, and stole Robert OG's robroe cover that he hsoudl be receiving with his bronco bass body.



I just need one more. I might refin it in Old Caterpiller Yellow

Actually, I;de really like a gold guard on this blacky, but i dont think fender/squier will be selling those seperately.

SPARKLE IT

cool man, looks familiar...

so you like the neck? hmmm, yea, I'm still debating if I like it or not. I think the scale is fine, it's just the neck itself is extremely small.... hmmm.... really easy to do octaves on it though, heh.

what does the MIM look like under the pickguard? is it a big swimming pool rout like the squier? it's cool because it gives it a resonant unamplified sound.

also, how do you like the sound of those pickups?

aen wrote:Actually, I;de really like a gold guard on this blacky, but i dont think fender/squier will be selling those seperately.

Fender Duosonic Pickguards (Re-Issue)

GAH! $50!

The body is routed for a... generous HH.

yea, I just looked at that. wd music can be a huge rip off most of the time.

so there are significant differences between the squier and the MIM then. that's interesting. I was just looking at your pics, it looks like the pole pieces are radiused like MIM strat pickups. the ones on the squier are definitely not.

Yeah, I htoght it was strange they were staggered, but underneath they still look like shitty pickups you see inside $40 Kmart guitars.

I've been dreamin' about a black w/white guard and black covers with a maple neck... You, sir, are my hero.

BUILT IN FUZZ.

Still wokring out the details (fuzz volume knob is not voluming and LED is not lighting) But pretty good for no experience wiring inside a guitar!

COlor is "Old Caterpillar Yellow"

PHat

HOly shieeat. Thats a great color. I've never been crazy about having a built-in fuzz meself but I know like a billion people who'd go apeshit. Great project, brutha.

Nice!

Regarding that neck pocket, as you say its deeper in the body than a standard pocket. I put a 24" MM II neck on one of my MIMs and the new holes aren't visible. I had to put longer intonation screws on it. It would seem to intonate, but it wasn't in scale all the way up and down the neck. Then I bought a string-through Toronado bridge with that same shape and planned to move it closer to the bridge pup, but never got around to it. The bad news is that part of the new holes ARE visible when I put that neck back on a regular Duo body. So you're wise to leave that neck alone unless you want to move the bridge. Maybe someone smarter than me could have made it work, i dunno.

Cool project!

I lurve it.

awesome color

fullerplast wrote:Nice!

Regarding that neck pocket, as you say its deeper in the body than a standard pocket. I put a 24" MM II neck on one of my MIMs and the new holes aren't visible. I had to put longer intonation screws on it. It would seem to intonate, but it wasn't in scale all the way up and down the neck. Then I bought a string-through Toronado bridge with that same shape and planned to move it closer to the bridge pup, but never got around to it. The bad news is that part of the new holes ARE visible when I put that neck back on a regular Duo body. So you're wise to leave that neck alone unless you want to move the bridge. Maybe someone smarter than me could have made it work, i dunno.

Cool project!

I don't really get what you're saying about the "new holes." are you saying you had to make new holes in the body to put on the MM II neck? and I think most of your intonation problems were because of the 24" scale. I've made measurements on mine and it seems like 25.5" would work out well.

Yeah,I guess it doesnt quite convert to 24". 25.5" works as far as scale measurments, but the necks I have are either to thick, or the mounting holes are a little off. Myabe start necks have thinner heels?

mage wrote:

fullerplast wrote:Nice!

Regarding that neck pocket, as you say its deeper in the body than a standard pocket. I put a 24" MM II neck on one of my MIMs and the new holes aren't visible. I had to put longer intonation screws on it. It would seem to intonate, but it wasn't in scale all the way up and down the neck. Then I bought a string-through Toronado bridge with that same shape and planned to move it closer to the bridge pup, but never got around to it. The bad news is that part of the new holes ARE visible when I put that neck back on a regular Duo body. So you're wise to leave that neck alone unless you want to move the bridge. Maybe someone smarter than me could have made it work, i dunno.

Cool project!

I don't really get what you're saying about the "new holes." are you saying you had to make new holes in the body to put on the MM II neck? and I think most of your intonation problems were because of the 24" scale. I've made measurements on mine and it seems like 25.5" would work out well.

Naw... new holes in the neck. The neck pocket is deeper and the original holes dont line up. The new holes are hidden on the MIM body, but were partially visible on a USA Musicmaster body.

The 90s MIM Duo is an oddball... the neck and body are matched and not even the original 22.5" scale. So nothing really converts perfectly. On an original, you could use either a 22.5" neck or a 24" neck without problems. But with the MIM, you're stuck with the original neck unless you want to move the bridge. I'm thinking its a 20 fret neck with a shorter scale than the the original. Maybe a 25.5" neck would come closer than the 24" 22 fret neck, I dont know.

OTOH, the new Duo uses a 21 fret conversion neck and a 25.5" would interchange perfectly.

I was pretty sure the 90s mims were 22.7"

hmmmm... cant remember.

But I measured mine once...

(the Duo that is)

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Thats me, busily writing songs using only the A string.

Sublimedo wrote: I've never been crazy about having a built-in fuzz meself

Thats because it's a right stupid idea.

"Hang on, let me stop laying for a second and switch on my fuzz. It'll be really emotive."