1/23/2024 0 Comments Fender duo sonic ii wiring diagram![]() ![]() To add to this confusion, the 2012 Fender Kurt Cobain Mustang (a part replica/part umbrella homage to Kurt’s love of the Mustang) was issued in Dark Lake Placid Blue, with a light blue Competition racing stripe included.Īs with many examples of guitars from this period, ageing over time combined with eye-tricking video and stage lighting (in Kurt’s case), and possibly even discrepancies from its original production means that not all Competition Burgundy paint jobs are equal. Kurt Cobain’s Competition Mustang was finished in Competition Burgundy - a confusing title, as for all intents and purposes, it closely resembles Fender’s Lake Placid Blue which is what Kurt’s guitar is often labelled. As well as changing the body from a slab to include a forearm contour, Fender introduced its Competition colours: three finishes (Competition Orange, Competition Red and Competition Burgundy), complete with contrasting ‘racing stripes’ across the bass bout of the body, continuing across the back of the guitar. In 1969, Fender introduced a number of updates to the Mustang - its student model which launched in 1964 and evolved from the Duo Sonic. It wasn’t his first rodeo with a Mustang Bleach-era shots, (including the album cover) show Cobain’s first Mustang mainstay, which began life as a stripped-bodied ’Stang that went on to feature a homemade vinyl record scratchplate and a Soundgarden sticker before it had multiple finish changes (white and blue) before finally meeting a similar fate to so many of Cobain’s early guitars. However, between its release in August and arrival at the top spot on the Billboard charts the following January, the video for Smells Like Teen Spirit clocked up relentless hours of airplay, all of which featured Cobain and his unusual, but extremely cool-looking Fender Competition Mustang. Indeed, when Nirvana returned to Reading in 1992, they headlined, and the Jag is the electric guitar that took pride-of-place for the majority of the set. ![]() The images compare it with my 1975 Mustang.Just months before, Nirvana made their daytime appearance at the UK’s Reading Festival, where Kurt brandished his black ‘Vandalism’ Fender Strat, and during this time you’d be just as likely to spot him playing the distinctive, heavily-modded ’65 Jaguar, which has a fascinating story in its own right. It is what it is: A Duo-Sonic II with a modern maple neck and tuners, no phase switching, and a six-saddle through-body bridge in a very cool color. It shouldn't be faulty, and while holding Fender responsible for a defect on a new guitar, its well within my skills to fix. I have some 3-way rotary switches and electric XII style pickup-selector knobs in a parts box. It's in a bad place anyway, and I was considering lower-profile options before the guitar arrived. The three-way switch is intermittently cutting out on the neck pickup on this specific example, but I like playing it so much that it doesn't bother me too much. ![]() ![]() The more as I play it, the more I like it. The pickups are a hair on the thinner side of acceptable single coils, but very serviceable. With the short scale, it is super easy to play. The flatter fingerboard and bigger frets are a bit of a departure, but I'm good with modern Fender necks. The rest of the guitar is pretty boiler-plate fender. I had resigned myself to the cheaper (to me) look of a satin headstock. One thing I didn't get from photos is that, while the back of the neck is satin, the headstock face and fingerboard are gloss. The frets ends are dressed well, so this isn't fatal at all. My only complaint is the fingerboard edge isn't rolled at all. It's not a vintage reissue, and changes some things for it, but the spirit is definitely there.įit and finish on mine is frankly excellent. As a "modern-meets-classic" take on the Fender student guitar, its great. but people mess up simpler things than this. I'm pretty satisfied.I mean, it's a mass-produced student guitar with a hardtail bridge, so it's not rocket-science. ![]()
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