The pots are marked to the 18th week of 1966. The neck is dated to July 1966, just about a year and a half into the CBS era. This was one of three spiffy color schemes offered, and we think the most attractive! The neck has the longer of two scale lengths offered, 24' (shared with most examples of the Mustang) which most players find friendlier than the very short 22 1/2' scale the Duo-sonic started out with in 1957. This beautiful blue-finished 1966 example is trimmed with a pearl celluloid pickguard and black pickup covers and switches. It just goes to show how much a snazzy name and a whammy bar mattered to 'the kids' in the mid-60's! By contrast the Duo-Sonic seemed to fade away, even though it was at that point exactly the same instrument, just without a vibrato. THAT guitar took off to become one of the most popular electrics of the 1960's, possibly the most successful student solidbody ever made. This Fender Duo-Sonic II was assembled just about two years after the model was redesigned in mid-1964 with components interchangeable with the new Mustang. Fender Duo-Sonic II Model Solid Body Electric Guitar (1966), made in Fullerton, California, serial # 145972, Daphne Blue lacquer finish, alder body, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, original grey hard shell case.
