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Hey everyone. In my last post I mention how I'm excited about the arrival of me Fender Duo Sonic off eBay

It was a great guitar, my first Fender, and I absolutely lavved it, but I couldn't adjust to the shortscale. I have long fingers, and I just wanted
a standard sized guitar.

I sold it on eBay to fund another guitar. I'm looking into Cyclones - they look pretty cool

The problem with the Duo was that I'm like 6 ft something and a lanky git, and I'm only 16 atm, and the guitar looked and felt pretty small on me.

Are Cyclones considered small scale though? They have a 24.75 scale neck, and I've read on websites that they're 3/4 scale, and I've also

read that they're 4/4 scale. I just don't want another tiny sized guitar.

Any advice / comments?

Thanks

they are the same scale length as a gibson.

...so shortscale but only in comparison to Fender standard.

Was this the Classic Vibe Duo or the Mexican? Because there's about an 1.5" difference between the two.

If a Toro's a shortscale at 24 3/4 ......... Love the Cyclones .

Go for a Cyclone II if you can find one.
All cyclones are 24.75" scale. It's real comfortable.

that debate over what qualifies as short will never end. . .

i love the cyclone II's and there's a very sexy surf green one on ebay right now... what would you say a good price range for it would be? don't want to overpay and my impulse buy syndrome is on overdrive...

I got a Fender Cyclone II a few months ago and absolutely love it. I overpaid a bit on it ($500 USD) and than put a lot more $$ into (which isn't necessary they are great already). I love the fact that its a fuck child of so many Fenders. Jag pups and pickup switchers, Mustang body, Strat Trem, Gibson neck length. Even though they were made in Mexico, they have American pup's (I replaced mine, again, not at all necessary).

nice... this one's at 360 with a day to go... damn! so surftastic!

Shout wrote:Hey everyone. In my last post I mention how I'm excited about the arrival of me Fender Duo Sonic off eBay

It was a great guitar, my first Fender, and I absolutely lavved it, but I couldn't adjust to the shortscale. I have long fingers, and I just wanted
a standard sized guitar.

I sold it on eBay to fund another guitar. I'm looking into Cyclones - they look pretty cool

The problem with the Duo was that I'm like 6 ft something and a lanky git, and I'm only 16 atm, and the guitar looked and felt pretty small on me.

Are Cyclones considered small scale though? They have a 24.75 scale neck, and I've read on websites that they're 3/4 scale, and I've also

read that they're 4/4 scale. I just don't want another tiny sized guitar.

Any advice / comments?

Thanks

Here is a Cyclone next to a Duo-Sonic

Is that a refin WTR? Don't think I've ever seen a cyclone in that colour before.

That's a stock color and stock pickguard.
It's carmel metallic.

jumbledupthinking wrote:Is that a refin WTR? Don't think I've ever seen a cyclone in that colour before.

It's the original color: Caramel Mettalic. It was made in 2004.







It's a MOPAR color.

That looks awesome. If only my hands were slightly bigger.

westtexasred wrote:It's the original color: Caramel Mettalic. It was made in 2004.

Cool, thanks. Yet another Fender colour I've never spotted before. They were definitely thinking outside the box with the cyclone colours, what with this & the graffiti yellow. Sweet guitar though, that colour works really well.

the fretboard on that cyclone makes me sad