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I got this on ebay($215.BIN) because I has an empty gigbag.I like this model because it has the 22.5" neck and I have to have at least one shortscale fender guitar to go with my fender amp

you'll love it.
Great pups and the neck is faaaaaaaaaast.

There's been a lot of duo-sonic interest lately, they're pretty fun guitars!

i love both of those.

Thanks for the posts Check out this Duo-Sonic rebuild my friend Paul at the Rickenbacker Resource Forum did.


"The body was a modern Duo, reshaped, recontoured to '58 specs--the early ones were quite different from the later ones--that one was a '91. I believe, Mexican or Indonesian. The polyester finish was stripped (sanded off--paint remover does not affect these) and the result was a nice, resonant body. I then gave it a Rickenbacker-type CV finish. The color was a Fender standard for '57-9, called Desert Sand, matched to my Cooder '58 Duo before I sold it in '05. I built this Duo in '07. The neck is a newer vintage neck (year unknown, but it was beat). I defretted it, stripped and sanded it, and shot it in amber nitro before putting on new frets and a vintage headstock decal. The filler plug at the top and skunk stripe are fake; painted on so it would look right. Tuners, pickup covers are new. The pickguard is also new as is the ashtray bridge cover over an original '58 bridge."

westtexasred wrote:I got this on ebay($215.BIN) because I has an empty gigbag.

I'm using that. You, sir, are a genius.

westtexasred wrote:

wow, that pickguard does not fit at all.

my favorite modded 90s duos have to be Tim's and Haze's.

benecol wrote:

westtexasred wrote:I got this on ebay($215.BIN) because I has an empty gigbag.

I'm using that. You, sir, are a genius.

I just remembered that I need a couple of gig bags...

Yeah,it was really bugging me having an empty gigbag in the closet.Anyway,I like the Mexi-Sonic's.

Skip Heller plays them.



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mage wrote: my favorite modded 90s duos have to be Tim's and Haze's.

This one's my favorite modded 90's duo...

oh yea. that ones alright.

would be cooler with green pearl though.

westtexasred wrote:Thanks for the posts Check out this Duo-Sonic rebuild my friend Paul at the Rickenbacker Resource Forum did.


"The body was a modern Duo, reshaped, recontoured to '58 specs--the early ones were quite different from the later ones--that one was a '91. I believe, Mexican or Indonesian. The polyester finish was stripped (sanded off--paint remover does not affect these) and the result was a nice, resonant body. I then gave it a Rickenbacker-type CV finish. The color was a Fender standard for '57-9, called Desert Sand, matched to my Cooder '58 Duo before I sold it in '05. I built this Duo in '07. The neck is a newer vintage neck (year unknown, but it was beat). I defretted it, stripped and sanded it, and shot it in amber nitro before putting on new frets and a vintage headstock decal. The filler plug at the top and skunk stripe are fake; painted on so it would look right. Tuners, pickup covers are new. The pickguard is also new as is the ashtray bridge cover over an original '58 bridge."

He should have just bought a Squier Classic Vibe duo... but those weren't around in 2007, were they?

Is it hard to play the 22.5" necks? My 24" Mustang fells comfy, but I can't imagine anything smaller "fitting" my fingers.

Needs black robroes, and mustang knobs...

astro wrote:

westtexasred wrote:Thanks for the posts Check out this Duo-Sonic rebuild my friend Paul at the Rickenbacker Resource Forum did.


"The body was a modern Duo, reshaped, recontoured to '58 specs--the early ones were quite different from the later ones--that one was a '91. I believe, Mexican or Indonesian. The polyester finish was stripped (sanded off--paint remover does not affect these) and the result was a nice, resonant body. I then gave it a Rickenbacker-type CV finish. The color was a Fender standard for '57-9, called Desert Sand, matched to my Cooder '58 Duo before I sold it in '05. I built this Duo in '07. The neck is a newer vintage neck (year unknown, but it was beat). I defretted it, stripped and sanded it, and shot it in amber nitro before putting on new frets and a vintage headstock decal. The filler plug at the top and skunk stripe are fake; painted on so it would look right. Tuners, pickup covers are new. The pickguard is also new as is the ashtray bridge cover over an original '58 bridge."

He should have just bought a Squier Classic Vibe duo... but those weren't around in 2007, were they?

Is it hard to play the 22.5" necks? My 24" Mustang fells comfy, but I can't imagine anything smaller "fitting" my fingers.

I had to put a 24" on mine. it's playable but 22.5 just doesn't work for a main axe.

mage wrote:oh yea. that ones alright.

would be cooler with green pearl though.

green pearl FTW!

endsjustifymeans wrote:

astro wrote:

westtexasred wrote:Thanks for the posts Check out this Duo-Sonic rebuild my friend Paul at the Rickenbacker Resource Forum did.


"The body was a modern Duo, reshaped, recontoured to '58 specs--the early ones were quite different from the later ones--that one was a '91. I believe, Mexican or Indonesian. The polyester finish was stripped (sanded off--paint remover does not affect these) and the result was a nice, resonant body. I then gave it a Rickenbacker-type CV finish. The color was a Fender standard for '57-9, called Desert Sand, matched to my Cooder '58 Duo before I sold it in '05. I built this Duo in '07. The neck is a newer vintage neck (year unknown, but it was beat). I defretted it, stripped and sanded it, and shot it in amber nitro before putting on new frets and a vintage headstock decal. The filler plug at the top and skunk stripe are fake; painted on so it would look right. Tuners, pickup covers are new. The pickguard is also new as is the ashtray bridge cover over an original '58 bridge."

He should have just bought a Squier Classic Vibe duo... but those weren't around in 2007, were they?

Is it hard to play the 22.5" necks? My 24" Mustang fells comfy, but I can't imagine anything smaller "fitting" my fingers.

I had to put a 24" on mine. it's playable but 22.5 just doesn't work for a main axe.

Does it intonate ok with a 24" neck? Or did you have to move the bridge?

Intonates perfectly, but you can't use just any neck unfortunately. The 22.5 that is on the duo is a conversion neck since the body is actually designed for a 25.5" scale. I ended up using a new Jagmaster neck, which is a 24" conversion neck and it works out perfectly.