1958 Fender® Duo-Sonic

$1,500.00

  • Year: 1958
  • Manufacturer: Fender®
  • Model: Duo-Sonic
  • Case: Original Hard
  • Color: Desert Sand (Re-Finished)
  • Condition: Very Good
  • Description: This factory? re-finished 12-inch three-quarter-size "student" guitar weighs just 5.80 lbs. and has a nut width of just over 1 5/8 inches and a scale length of 22 1/2 inches. Solid alder 'slab' body, one-piece maple neck with 21 frets, black dot position markers and a medium-to-thin neck profile. Individual Kluson Deluxe 'single-line' tuners with white plastic oval buttons. Headstock with Fender® 'Spaghetti' logo in gold with black trim and "Duo-Sonic" in black beneath. Single butterfly string-tree with nylon spacer. Two plain-top Fender® single-coil pickups with balanced outputs of 5.63k and 5.67k. Eight-screw gold anodized aluminum pickguard. Two controls (one volume, one tone) plus three-way selector switch and jack socket, all on the pickguard. Chrome knobs with knurled sides and flat tops. Combined bridge/tailpiece with three adjustable saddles. The neck is dated in pencil "7-58." This guitar has been expertly refinished in the exact same Desert Sand color sometime around 1964/1965. At that time the original 1958 pickups were replaced with 1964/65 DuoSonic pickups with light gray bottoms. The three-way pickup selector switch was replaced as was the headstock decal. In our opinion the re-fin on this guitar was most likely done at the Fender® factory - we just sold another mint Desert Sand Duo-Sonic - and when compared side-by-side - the finishes were virtually indistinguishable from another. However, it is still a re-fin, and accordingly we have priced this little gem at half of what we sold the 'all original' one for. Housed in the original Fender® tan hardshell case with tan leather ends and orange plush lining (9.00). (01243)