A fantastic guitar in both look and sound. Comes with period correct case that is not in the greatest shape- lock doesn't work, but the case does its job. 1967 Fender Musicmaster II in excellent condition. My dad found this guitar in a pawn shop in Tucson, AZ, and I was with him when he bought it, we've enjoyed it in our collection for over thirty five years, and now it needs a new home. It will need to be set up, I just put I back together, I don't know enough about setting up these vintage fenders.
Neck is typical awesome fender straight and buttery. Everything else is straight stock- all the hardware is original- kluson deluxe tuners, original hardtail bridge.
#1966 FENDER MUSICMASTER II MOD#
All in all, besides a rather hacky routing job for the three-way switch, it's a decent mod job. Anyway, has a three way pickup switch, I think the pots are replacements from originals, but they are CTS pots, and they are clean.The pickups I don't know if they are fenders or not- I don't know enough about pickups.
The original color looks great, smells like 50 year old fender lacquer- unmistakeable, and has no cold checking. 1963 Fender Champ Lap Steel pickup 5.47K Same as Musicmaster Duo Sonic White Cvr. The one on it was some kind of countertop material. Fender 1966 Rosewood MusicMaster II Neck. It was during this time that demand was great for. I painstakingly un- refinished the guitar, and got a correct pickguard (from pickguard planet). While Fender did indeed switch over to a 'veneer' style laminated fretboard after 1962 on all of their guitars, the slab style fretboard was briefly re-introduced late in 1965 and into 1966 on some (but not all) short scale model guitars, including the Mustang, Musicmaster II, and Duo-Sonic II. About a year ago, I pulled it out of mothball storage, and decided to see if the original finish was underneath. I've had this guitar since 1984, and when I got it, it had already been modded and painted a metallic black spray job. This guitar comes with a rectangular hard shell case typical of the period.Very cool '66 Musicmaster II, 24 inch scale, modified sometime in the 70's- early eighties. Because of the short scale length, many of these players choose to use heavier strings, which work very well. When we see these guitars now, they are used by experienced players rather than the beginners they were aimed at. It goes well with the original faux-tortoise pickguard. Basically this is a 1965 model, the neck date is 8NOV65B (November 1965) and the pots are 137.65. soft case 1966 Fender Musicmaster in Olympic White finish, all original and in very good condition. It carries its original White lacquer finish, which has aged, worn, and yellowed to a lovely patina. 1966 Fender Musicmaster II Olympic White incl. This Fender Duo Sonic II dates to 1966 with Rosewood fingerboard and is in all original, good working order. The Fender Duo-Sonic and Duo-Sonic II featured a pair of single coil pickups, but in a silent advancement, one was RWRP – Reverse Wind, Reverse Polarity – so that with both pickups on, a humbucking effect was achieved. The Fender Mustang won out in the end, and the Duo Sonic went out of production in 1968. In 1964, the model was revised as the Duo Sonic II, with strong references to the new-ish Mustang, but without the trem bridge. These were short-scale guitars, sometimes called “3/4 size”, in scale lengths of 22.5 or 24 inches. Appearing in 1956 as a student model, the Fender Duo Sonic was a step up from its stable mate, the single pickup MusicMaster.
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