Not that it matters to anyone but my cat just died today (11/6/2022). My mother came to tell me while I was watching this video. The song at the end was very fitting. This is the type of music that I would play to her when she was alive. This video came up in rotation. Thank you for sharing this with us although I watched it a little late it was definitely the right time.
From Belgium? Belgium does not exist, never make that mistake. You are asking for a Belgenmop. Wie heeft de mooiste tanden in Vlaanderen? Da's die ene komiek, die Philippe Beugels.
@@MatthewScottmusic Hi Matthew! I wrote you an e-mail before... I really like your shares and guitars and ideas about music etc etc. What is the way that you can afford real vintage guitars? I mean I would really like to know some little "secrets" of yours as advices... :)
I have a '66 Mustang, refinished in original Daphne Blue and rewired the PUPs and switches. I bought this new when I was 19 years old...I am now 74 years old and still enjoying this guitar.
Daphne blue isn’t original, while they probably used the same mix the literature simply gives the colors available as red, white or blue. And specifically states that custom colors (such as daphne blue, Dakota red and Olympic white) aren’t available on students models the Musicmaster, mustang and duo sonic ii.
The I.A. on the bottom of the pick ups is A.I. Abigail Ibarra wound pick ups at Fender for years. Hope that helps. I have a 65 Mustang Daphne blue. Same deal.
Holy moly. I confess that the out-of-phase tone really worked for me. I can see it being a really cool rhythm tone in some spots. I never gave these guitars a second glance, but now I might have to take another look. I really liked all the tones.
I bought one yesterday at an estate sale for 130 bucks, your video has been a big help to me in figuring out what is wrong as well as what I need to do to get it working
@@charlie00 I ended up getting a 1968 Vibro champ that was its companion for all its life too, paid 285 for it. It also sold at the same estate sale but I didn’t get it. I was able to track it down though. I’ve got a video up on my channel about it now if you want to check it out
I have the little brother to that one. It's a '66 Music Master II my parents bought for me brand new in '68. I butchered it in the late 70s, painting it black and adding a bridge pickup. It's been restored and is back to Olympic white with a red tortoise guard and just the neck pickup. It's mostly original and gets occasional play. Naturally, I wish I'd never hacked it up but back then it was just an old guitar. I blame EVH, lots of people were doing that back then. Thanks for the video.
In 1974 I bought a 65 Mustang. It was pretty best up. It looked like the guy who had it before me. Filed down the frets. Then the neck was bowing upwards. At the time I didn’t know about replacement necks. So in 1981. I ended up selling it to a kid in my neighborhood.
If you’re not already aware, shoemakers can replace broken latches on vintage cases! I had that done a while back. It can get pricy but well worth it if you wanna keep using that case.
Matthew Scott. Get some gorgomite cloth. Cleans and polishes the frets without having to use steel wool and tape. Saves a ton of time. I love the stuff
My first guitar was a Duo Sonic II that I bought at a music store in 1976 for $50.00 so I could go take lessons somewhere. It's a '65 like this one. The sales dude said they would clean up the contacts in the switches. All for $50.00. I still have it. I'm torn between selling it and keeping it.
Matthew Scott id love to see ya pick one up! The 24” B width neck would serve you wonderfully. I believe mustangs could be ordered with 22” A width too, but most are the 24” B width
Duuude you got a duosonic ii!! (L series I noticed which makes that a 64 or early 65). Makes me excited since I’m a Mustang lover. Just before the virus hit I was very very lucky to get a near mint 1964 Fender Mustang in dakota red with clay dots. A veryvery early one from July 1964 that still has black bobbin pickups (24 scale though, not the 22,5 although I have tried a 22,5 scale 66 once). Nicee. Haven’t even watched your video yet, was too excited and had to comment first 🙏😸
When the switches are opposed to each other in either direction, the pickups are out of phase: - - + / + - - or + - - / - - + are the same technically. + - - / + - - or - - + / - - + are also the same (in phase) technically, but I imagine that folks will argue that there are some differences in the "mirrored" settings of each. Great sounding little instrument, thanks for sharing Matt!
@@RobbieTayVaughan it's 2 3-position switches, who's position he is resembling. Just look at a diagram. To make it short: Both middle: off One middle, one switch engaged: one Pickup active. Switches facing or opposing each other: both out of phase (thin, nasal). Switches engaged in the same direction: both parallel (as standard)
@@RobbieTayVaughan Each switch has three positions. The diagrams depict the different settings with the "+" symbol being which position each switch is in. The "/" doesn't mean anything in the diagram, just a divider between the switches.
2:36 You say that like it's a bad thing. We Gen-x and Boomers grew up carving stuff on school desk's,under coffee tables,on trees,inside books and on guitars. it was a different time..not perfect, but real.
Great guitar Matt , I remember back in 65 , my Dad and me walked into Hanich Music and on the rack was a 1964 Mustang in Dakota red . They guy told us it would come with a 1964 Deluxe Reverb custom .For $350 , I thought boy the old man is not going for that .Well he said (Dad) give us a case and cover for the amp and you got a real . I was flooded ,went home and played the hello out of it. So yeah I still like those old student models.. Thanks for the memories buddy.🎸😎👍
just inherited what I think is a '62 Mustang with the same pick guard from my grandpa who just passed. Love seeing this, and will use it to partially restore the ol' thing.
I've had good luck with Deoxit as well. I have used it on everything, amps, guitars, vacuum cleaners electronics, treadmill electronics, smartphone charge ports, even vehicle plugs/switches. It cleans well and leaves a light film of lube on the components. Well worth the $ if you ask me.
For my 19th birthday last year my dad gave me his guitar he’s had since he was 16, a daphne blue 67 mustang that turned what I can only describe as nirvana grunge green. No difference from duo Sonics outside the trem as far as I know. Still an underrated guitar
Eric Johnson used to use out of phase for some of his koto effect stuff. That makes these guitars and the Mustangs a bit ahead of their time. In the '70s people started putting phase switches on strats and Gibsons though I don't know what inspired it, because nobody really knew that was happening on the Mustangs.
I had a '65 Music Master II, 24" scale I got here in Austin for $319 in the mid 90s. Tort guard, old refinished natural body. Neck was dry/finish perfectly played through. Sold it about 15 years ago for $600. I absolutely regret selling that guitar.
Incredible how you put life back in a guitar simply by cleaning it. These videos are very pleasant to watch and learn if you are into guitars. Also funny how you pronounce Andrea I would say it Andre-ah
Too funny, I am married to an Andrea….. It drives her nuts when people pronounce it Ahndreeya She likes it just the way Matthew said it🤠 Just scrolling through the comments and thought and was funny that you mentioned it
Boy. THAT guy was played. They were called, "turtleshell" back then, and these guitars sound fabulous. OOP sound w/those switches -- I think, when they are pushed toward one another. Plane down that board and instal new frets. We have one of these in our family but with bar pickups. By the way, I was in the last two months of high school when those pickups were wired, and still 17 years old! So this axe has been alive for as long as I have been out of high school, which is a darn long time! Fifty-six years, right about NOW! You really don't even have to use tape to protect the board ... just use 0000 steel wool on all of it. That way, you clean the wood and shine the frets at the same time. Then go back over the rosewood with some lemon oil or your choice of board oil. Drip some 3-In-1 oil into those tuners as well, any way you can get it in there. Cut a business card in half and push it into the neck pocket all the way up to the body to get a better neck angle. Your new axe sounds fabulous!! BTW: I love the OOP!!
My first "real" electric guitar was a 1965 dakota red Mustang. I bought it in 1980 for $75 with original case. (not unusual price at the time). Before I got it, the neck pickup was dead, someone had replaced the bridge pickup with a Strat pickup, and switched the tuners to Grovers. Of course at the time, it was just an inexpensive pawnshop guitar, rather than a vintage collectible.
I like the junior as it is friendly to small hands, a curse of mine. I also fix up old vintage guitars, but as a player and not a collector and the fact that I am a lefty purist, makes my discoveries all that more harder to find. I don't buy into reversing strings on a right handed guitar. That's like back in the day when my teacher tried to force me to write with my right hand because she believed lefties were demons. I get that collectors are invested in the monetary value, but musical instruments are meant to be played, not displayed and adored. Guitars are incapable of thought and thus incapable of narcissism. So why treat them as such as if they were saying, "Look at me! I am so amazing, beautiful, expensive and valuable. Please don't touch me if you can avoid it, unless you can afford me." Here Matthew shows, "Get it, make it playable and show it has unique character that one want to pick it up and play it even more.
@@MatthewScottmusic I would indeed. I suspect I will be snooping about for one of those. Since I am mostly retired, I have more time to hit yard sales, estate sales, storage unit auctions (my personal favorite, as no matter what is in them, and they are blind auctions, which are fairly inexpensive, there is always something I can sell on site) and also, I live in Canada, where I am on a list for when they have auctions for stuff that people try to bring across the border illegally. Quite often everything in their vehicle gets seized and if said person/s gets arrested, tried, convicted, and incarcerated, their stuff goes on auction. Also those clowns who try to bring stuff into the country without declaring them, that gets confiscated and sold. They don't bother to check the actual value of things, the don't care, they start with a low ball bid and go from there, until someone outbids. What makes it wonderful is most people who go to these auctions, have only one thing in mind, get as much different stuff for as much money as they are willing to spend. Ergo, they are not going to blow it all on one thing. I have no idea if they do the same thing in the USA. Border Service Agency is federal, and at the same time they act independently, they are not obligated to make profit for the federal treasury, although what they do collect does go there. They feel that their job is to maintain legal integrity of what is coming across the border. If people break the law, then they must bear the consequences of doing so. For years, Canadian border guards were known for their friendly less hassle approach, but they were trained to spot suspicious and guilty folk. Now when I entered the USA, I have always felt I was under a more militant observation, and felt the pressure of getting the third degree, and that's enough to make anyone nervous. Yes, I accept that they are just doing their job, but I go by the idiom, "You catch more flies with honey, than you do with vinegar." See? If approached cool, calm, and friendly, any innocent person will respond alike, but a guilty person is still going to be twitchy. Treat a person as if they are probably hiding some secret, than even the most innocent, has some secret even though it is not related to crossing the border, but the agent's sense of pressing guilt trip, is like a knee jerk reaction. Well, I have learned to control that, because I have traveled the globe, and gone through border, and custom officials of all sorts. I have had stuff nicked from my luggage, and knew better than to accuse anyone. Of course I put things in my luggage knowing they would take it, because, it became a thing of gaining favor. Such things as prepackaged coffee, packages of cigarettes (not cartons), chocolate bars and other such things that were not illegal but not readily available within the borders of said country I was visiting. I would be asked where I would be staying, which is typical, and shortly after, I would receive anonymous gifts of local wines and spirits. Also I might find a friendly guide asking for me in the lobby. Kindness, is one of the greatest acts of diplomacy there is. It is not a difficult principle. Cheers
I owned a pre CBS Fender Mustang. No curve for your arm just like this Duo Sonic. The slide switches were problematic. 8 tone combinations were touted, but in actuality there were only four. Tremolo was the best in the business for its age. Sold and since replaced with a 78 Mustang with three Strat style pickups.
Great find, fantastic video. That's a piece of history there. I'd like to think that both Doug and Andrea would approve. And personally I love the sound of the out-of-phase pickup selection. In a world full of Strats and LPs something a little different is kind of nice now and then.
I actually like that out of phase tone. I love to see you rescuing another lonely instrument that can't share it's love anymore. I like watching you bring them back out into the light and letting us hear what they have to say. I am a fan of that. You keep doing you Matthew, I will keep watching
I have a 69 Fender Mustang which had similar issues when I purchased it about 20 years ago. I cleaned the pots, replaced the switches and the pickups, did a full setup. It plays and sounds pretty good now.
Great sound at 12:00, and when you switch to the bridge pickup at 12:45, the first chords made me think of the intro to “Jesus Just Left Chicago”- I’d LOVE to hear you play that on this guitar; sweet, bright singing tone with just a little dirt to it… Thank you!
Pots need a bit of lube to protect the carbon trace and wiper, contact cleaner is fine for switches and connectors but will clean off all the lube from a pot. Something like Deoxit D5 will help pots last longer. The old duo sonic style pickups are some of my favorite, I have 50's one in the middle position on my main strat, the flat pole pieces have a more balanced sound to my ear.
I've had good luck with Deoxit as well. I have used it on everything, amps, guitars, vacuum cleaners electronics, treadmill electronics, smartphone charge ports, even vehicle plugs/switches. It cleans well and leaves a light film of lube on the components. Well worth the $ if you ask me.
Amazing how you wake these vintage guitars up and they sound fantastic. Truly inspiring to add a new avenue in my collecting guitars. Your play is so fluid and natural. Thanks for the work on the channel and keep up the great work!!
I have watched this guy for a couple years and this dude seems like a legit nice person…. Obviously loves his Fender Vintage stuff. Seems he is like the rest of us just trying to carve out successful career. Props Brother!
7:10 Making the neck with the signature & date shows the pride companies & the people who worked took in the work they did. Now a days most products are mass produced junk that you pay top dollar for then within years (or sometimes months) are junk.
Fender should make you head of a secret department that would clean up the market of vintage guitars and you would oversee their restauration for resale as player grade guitars.
I had a Fender Mustang similar to that maybe 40 years ago or more. Bought at dirt cheap at a local store. Played the crumb out of it. Had the whammy roll bar type. Sold and traded it for a more expensive ovation. But now it's probably maybe 10 times more than I got for it. I know people that fix them up and it wasn't worth it.back.then. might be worth it nowadays but I got my money's worth out of it meaning just playing the heck out of it. It really improved my quickness on the guitar. Hope you enjoy yours.
Matthew, you are the guitar equivalent of those channels that find lost, neglected, abused, or starving dogs, full of ticks and fleas, their fur matted, and they clean them up, and slowly breathe life back into them, and voila, a new dog appears, full of life! Sometimes I think, if those old guitars you rescue could speak...they'd say thank you.
….come come now….most of these instruments have long been identified as having exponential value…clean or not….they are certainly not waiting in the corner like broken toys in The Toy Story….all of them have a line up of competing investors at the door….ready to pay top dollar…no matter how bad a shape they may be in..as long as they have mostly original parts.
Dude, you're such a cool cat. I'd hang with you for sure if we lived in the same town. How you find all these vintage guitars is beyond me but much respect for your channel efforts, playing skills, and time put in acquiring awesome old guitars.
That ones a keeper! I need to keep my eyes peeled for one. That was great that with a little contact cleaner everything worked smooth, keeping it very original. Fantastic find!
WoW! That sounds great! I’ve got “Jonie” and a scratched out phone number on the back of an old Gruhn acoustic. No idea who she is, Jonie Mitchell I dream of though.
Loved the video. I'm a bass player and I work on and assemble my own basses nowadays. Great to see you at work. Also, my wife's birthday is 9 April 1965, and her name is Ann. Since I prefer A width Jazz necks I have kept my eyes open for a neck date just like this one for years...... Very cool!
What’s interesting is Fender did not spend much less money building one of these Duo sonic or Mustangs than they did when making a Stratocaster… despite the different vintage valuation, This model was price point manufacturing, to capture the younger market... so with the right neck I imagine these could be a steal.
Not that it matters to anyone but my cat just died today (11/6/2022). My mother came to tell me while I was watching this video. The song at the end was very fitting. This is the type of music that I would play to her when she was alive. This video came up in rotation. Thank you for sharing this with us although I watched it a little late it was definitely the right time.
Condolences lost mine a month ago.
I am so sorry for the loss of your baby
:(
Some may call it blasphemy, but I do love the carved names, it gives the instrument a real feel and story. Love the video's cheers from Belgium
I do too. Makes the guitar more interesting.
From Belgium? Belgium does not exist, never make that mistake. You are asking for a Belgenmop. Wie heeft de mooiste tanden in Vlaanderen? Da's die ene komiek, die Philippe Beugels.
@@MatthewScottmusic Hi Matthew! I wrote you an e-mail before... I really like your shares and guitars and ideas about music etc etc. What is the way that you can afford real vintage guitars? I mean I would really like to know some little "secrets" of yours as advices... :)
@@voornaam3191 CHUCKLES! I don't speak Flemish, but I speak Afrikaans which is fairly similar! Ongelukkig weet ek niks van Flaamse tande nie!
Id rather sand them out, it would drive me nuts looking at them :-)
I have a '66 Mustang, refinished in original Daphne Blue and rewired the PUPs and switches. I bought this new when I was 19 years old...I am now 74 years old and still enjoying this guitar.
Daphne blue isn’t original, while they probably used the same mix the literature simply gives the colors available as red, white or blue. And specifically states that custom colors (such as daphne blue, Dakota red and Olympic white) aren’t available on students models the Musicmaster, mustang and duo sonic ii.
Somebody loved the hell out of that guitar....! Can’t imagine all the songs that thing has played.
The I.A. on the bottom of the pick ups is A.I. Abigail Ibarra wound pick ups at Fender for years. Hope that helps. I have a 65 Mustang Daphne blue. Same deal.
And if it's okay to give further comment nice to see someone with a passion for taking care of and rebuilding old guitars
Holy moly. I confess that the out-of-phase tone really worked for me. I can see it being a really cool rhythm tone in some spots. I never gave these guitars a second glance, but now I might have to take another look. I really liked all the tones.
Buy one. Now.
I'm sure Andrea and Doug are happy that you brought this one back to life! Great job brother Matthew!
I bought one yesterday at an estate sale for 130 bucks, your video has been a big help to me in figuring out what is wrong as well as what I need to do to get it working
no way that’s so cool
@@charlie00 I ended up getting a 1968 Vibro champ that was its companion for all its life too, paid 285 for it. It also sold at the same estate sale but I didn’t get it. I was able to track it down though. I’ve got a video up on my channel about it now if you want to check it out
@@Telecastersanonymous i think i saw your videos on tiktok when you first bought it that is really cool
@@Telecastersanonymous how are you liking it?
@@charlie00 I love it, even with the tiny worn down vintage frets it’s still the best sounding guitar I’ve ever had, and definitely my favorite
I just got into collecting guitars. I love your channel man
Thats awesome! So glad to hear that✌🏻👍🏻
@@MatthewScottmusic your gonna end up making the market place more expensive 😂😂👍
It's already out of control. But a lot of goods and services are going up.
sounds great even with a mild cleanup .... thanks , great find
I love these old duo sonic II guitars, not many videos about them on yt.
lol
I have the little brother to that one. It's a '66 Music Master II my parents bought for me brand new in '68. I butchered it in the late 70s, painting it black and adding a bridge pickup. It's been restored and is back to Olympic white with a red tortoise guard and just the neck pickup. It's mostly original and gets occasional play. Naturally, I wish I'd never hacked it up but back then it was just an old guitar. I blame EVH, lots of people were doing that back then. Thanks for the video.
There is nothing like those two switches. It's my favorite feature of the Mustang.
In 1974 I bought a 65 Mustang. It was pretty best up. It looked like the guy who had it before me. Filed down the frets. Then the neck was bowing upwards. At the time I didn’t know about replacement necks. So in 1981. I ended up selling it to a kid in my neighborhood.
Jimi Hendrix’s Angel would sound great in the out of phase position
You can tell that's a great guitar because someone (maybe Doug, or his admirer) played the _hell_ out of it.
If you’re not already aware, shoemakers can replace broken latches on vintage cases! I had that done a while back. It can get pricy but well worth it if you wanna keep using that case.
Had a friend I played with back in 67...68 had one. Ran it through a baseman. Fun days!
I agree that guitars got character and a history it's not worn out it's just broken in
Matthew Scott. Get some gorgomite cloth. Cleans and polishes the frets without having to use steel wool and tape. Saves a ton of time. I love the stuff
Doug and Andrea had the "I think you love that guitar more than me" talk.
YES. The colors are GREAT. Love that tortoise shell..
Every time... a new video, a new guitar for me to desire... damn!
My first guitar was a Duo Sonic II that I bought at a music store in 1976 for $50.00 so I could go take lessons somewhere. It's a '65 like this one. The sales dude said they would clean up the contacts in the switches. All for $50.00. I still have it. I'm torn between selling it and keeping it.
I am one of those folks who absolutely love the out of phase sound. My LP custom pro does that and it makes me smile every time.
I've always kinda had a secret love affair with mustang's and I love to see vintage ones being played. Nice job as always.
Thanks Kent, I need a real Mustang!
Matthew Scott id love to see ya pick one up! The 24” B width neck would serve you wonderfully. I believe mustangs could be ordered with 22” A width too, but most are the 24” B width
@@MatthewScottmusic absolutely. I do agree that the tortoise shell with white that's aged 50 years just has that something extra...
Duuude you got a duosonic ii!! (L series I noticed which makes that a 64 or early 65). Makes me excited since I’m a Mustang lover. Just before the virus hit I was very very lucky to get a near mint 1964 Fender Mustang in dakota red with clay dots. A veryvery early one from July 1964 that still has black bobbin pickups (24 scale though, not the 22,5 although I have tried a 22,5 scale 66 once). Nicee. Haven’t even watched your video yet, was too excited and had to comment first 🙏😸
Awesome man! I wish this was the longer scale and B width. I'm still looking out for one of those.
@2:01 play wear like that is usually a great sign you’re onto a winner ! No ones putting that many hours into a crappy sounding guitar 🎸 IMO
I never thought that axe would end up sounding so good. Doug would be proud! Andrea too - even though she’s kinda destructive.
Oh jesus christ now I need a duosonic. This sounds AWESOME
When the switches are opposed to each other in either direction, the pickups are out of phase: - - + / + - - or + - - / - - + are the same technically. + - - / + - - or - - + / - - + are also the same (in phase) technically, but I imagine that folks will argue that there are some differences in the "mirrored" settings of each.
Great sounding little instrument, thanks for sharing Matt!
Finally!
came here to say this. everyone always gets it wrong!!
Trying to follow your diagram, but I only see 2 switches. So the 3 marks in your explanation don't make sense to me
@@RobbieTayVaughan it's 2 3-position switches, who's position he is resembling. Just look at a diagram.
To make it short:
Both middle: off
One middle, one switch engaged: one Pickup active.
Switches facing or opposing each other: both out of phase (thin, nasal).
Switches engaged in the same direction: both parallel (as standard)
@@RobbieTayVaughan Each switch has three positions. The diagrams depict the different settings with the "+" symbol being which position each switch is in. The "/" doesn't mean anything in the diagram, just a divider between the switches.
2:36 You say that like it's a bad thing. We Gen-x and Boomers grew up carving stuff on school desk's,under coffee tables,on trees,inside books and on guitars.
it was a different time..not perfect, but real.
Great guitar Matt , I remember back in 65 , my Dad and me walked into Hanich Music and on the rack was a 1964 Mustang in Dakota red . They guy told us it would come with a 1964 Deluxe Reverb custom .For $350 , I thought boy the old man is not going for that .Well he said (Dad) give us a case and cover for the amp and you got a real . I was flooded ,went home and played the hello out of it. So yeah I still like those old student models.. Thanks for the memories buddy.🎸😎👍
just inherited what I think is a '62 Mustang with the same pick guard from my grandpa who just passed. Love seeing this, and will use it to partially restore the ol' thing.
Mustangs didn’t come out until 64.
@@Riffmaster227 took it apart and it was 1965
I own a 1965 Mustang in dakota red that was my Great Grandads. It’s about as rough as that guitar but feels and plays like magic! Love your videos man
The tone of that one is awesome, and it is absolutely beautiful.
Rad find man!
Thank you Robert, my friend! ✌🏻🙌🏻
Try Deoxit spray, flood the pots and switches to literally rinse out the dirt. It works better!
I've had good luck with Deoxit as well. I have used it on everything, amps, guitars, vacuum cleaners electronics, treadmill electronics, smartphone charge ports, even vehicle plugs/switches. It cleans well and leaves a light film of lube on the components. Well worth the $ if you ask me.
For my 19th birthday last year my dad gave me his guitar he’s had since he was 16, a daphne blue 67 mustang that turned what I can only describe as nirvana grunge green. No difference from duo Sonics outside the trem as far as I know. Still an underrated guitar
Cool little guitar I love the tone … including the out of phase tone
I have owned this same Guitar for 55 years, first guitar I learned on. Love it.
Eric Johnson used to use out of phase for some of his koto effect stuff. That makes these guitars and the Mustangs a bit ahead of their time. In the '70s people started putting phase switches on strats and Gibsons though I don't know what inspired it, because nobody really knew that was happening on the Mustangs.
Look at that stack of Fender custom 68’s and friends! Damn!
I had a '65 Music Master II, 24" scale I got here in Austin for $319 in the mid 90s. Tort guard, old refinished natural body. Neck was dry/finish perfectly played through. Sold it about 15 years ago for $600. I absolutely regret selling that guitar.
I had my headphones cranked during the demo, I LOVE the tone. I am hearing the perfect blend between a Vintage Strat and Tele I think.
Incredible how you put life back in a guitar simply by cleaning it. These videos are very pleasant to watch and learn if you are into guitars. Also funny how you pronounce Andrea I would say it Andre-ah
Too funny, I am married to an Andrea…..
It drives her nuts when people pronounce it
Ahndreeya
She likes it just the way Matthew said it🤠
Just scrolling through the comments and thought and was funny that you mentioned it
Boy. THAT guy was played. They were called, "turtleshell" back then, and these guitars sound fabulous. OOP sound w/those switches -- I think, when they are pushed toward one another. Plane down that board and instal new frets. We have one of these in our family but with bar pickups. By the way, I was in the last two months of high school when those pickups were wired, and still 17 years old! So this axe has been alive for as long as I have been out of high school, which is a darn long time! Fifty-six years, right about NOW! You really don't even have to use tape to protect the board ... just use 0000 steel wool on all of it. That way, you clean the wood and shine the frets at the same time. Then go back over the rosewood with some lemon oil or your choice of board oil. Drip some 3-In-1 oil into those tuners as well, any way you can get it in there. Cut a business card in half and push it into the neck pocket all the way up to the body to get a better neck angle. Your new axe sounds fabulous!! BTW: I love the OOP!!
My first "real" electric guitar was a 1965 dakota red Mustang. I bought it in 1980 for $75 with original case. (not unusual price at the time). Before I got it, the neck pickup was dead, someone had replaced the bridge pickup with a Strat pickup, and switched the tuners to Grovers. Of course at the time, it was just an inexpensive pawnshop guitar, rather than a vintage collectible.
I like the junior as it is friendly to small hands, a curse of mine. I also fix up old vintage guitars, but as a player and not a collector and the fact that I am a lefty purist, makes my discoveries all that more harder to find. I don't buy into reversing strings on a right handed guitar. That's like back in the day when my teacher tried to force me to write with my right hand because she believed lefties were demons. I get that collectors are invested in the monetary value, but musical instruments are meant to be played, not displayed and adored. Guitars are incapable of thought and thus incapable of narcissism. So why treat them as such as if they were saying, "Look at me! I am so amazing, beautiful, expensive and valuable. Please don't touch me if you can avoid it, unless you can afford me." Here Matthew shows, "Get it, make it playable and show it has unique character that one want to pick it up and play it even more.
You would like this smaller neck then! Thanks Mark for always supporting!
@@MatthewScottmusic I would indeed. I suspect I will be snooping about for one of those. Since I am mostly retired, I have more time to hit yard sales, estate sales, storage unit auctions (my personal favorite, as no matter what is in them, and they are blind auctions, which are fairly inexpensive, there is always something I can sell on site) and also, I live in Canada, where I am on a list for when they have auctions for stuff that people try to bring across the border illegally. Quite often everything in their vehicle gets seized and if said person/s gets arrested, tried, convicted, and incarcerated, their stuff goes on auction. Also those clowns who try to bring stuff into the country without declaring them, that gets confiscated and sold. They don't bother to check the actual value of things, the don't care, they start with a low ball bid and go from there, until someone outbids. What makes it wonderful is most people who go to these auctions, have only one thing in mind, get as much different stuff for as much money as they are willing to spend. Ergo, they are not going to blow it all on one thing. I have no idea if they do the same thing in the USA. Border Service Agency is federal, and at the same time they act independently, they are not obligated to make profit for the federal treasury, although what they do collect does go there. They feel that their job is to maintain legal integrity of what is coming across the border. If people break the law, then they must bear the consequences of doing so. For years, Canadian border guards were known for their friendly less hassle approach, but they were trained to spot suspicious and guilty folk. Now when I entered the USA, I have always felt I was under a more militant observation, and felt the pressure of getting the third degree, and that's enough to make anyone nervous. Yes, I accept that they are just doing their job, but I go by the idiom, "You catch more flies with honey, than you do with vinegar." See? If approached cool, calm, and friendly, any innocent person will respond alike, but a guilty person is still going to be twitchy. Treat a person as if they are probably hiding some secret, than even the most innocent, has some secret even though it is not related to crossing the border, but the agent's sense of pressing guilt trip, is like a knee jerk reaction.
Well, I have learned to control that, because I have traveled the globe, and gone through border, and custom officials of all sorts. I have had stuff nicked from my luggage, and knew better than to accuse anyone. Of course I put things in my luggage knowing they would take it, because, it became a thing of gaining favor. Such things as prepackaged coffee, packages of cigarettes (not cartons), chocolate bars and other such things that were not illegal but not readily available within the borders of said country I was visiting. I would be asked where I would be staying, which is typical, and shortly after, I would receive anonymous gifts of local wines and spirits. Also I might find a friendly guide asking for me in the lobby. Kindness, is one of the greatest acts of diplomacy there is. It is not a difficult principle.
Cheers
As a lefty, I always assumed there weren’t any vintage guitars for me, good to know they’re out there!
One things for sure someone loved and played that guitar
The last tone was righteous - I think YOU could work it. Good luck and great VDO.
The best archeology is guitar archeology. Nice work Matthew!
I owned a pre CBS Fender Mustang. No curve for your arm just like this Duo Sonic. The slide switches were problematic. 8 tone combinations were touted, but in actuality there were only four. Tremolo was the best in the business for its age. Sold and since replaced with a 78 Mustang with three Strat style pickups.
Same I have a 1964/1965 Fender Mustang and I play it more than any of my other guitars
Great find, fantastic video. That's a piece of history there. I'd like to think that both Doug and Andrea would approve. And personally I love the sound of the out-of-phase pickup selection. In a world full of Strats and LPs something a little different is kind of nice now and then.
Love that quacky little gitfiddle. Fun times right there 🎶👍🎶🎸
That old guitar has character. Very cool.
I actually like that out of phase tone. I love to see you rescuing another lonely instrument that can't share it's love anymore. I like watching you bring them back out into the light and letting us hear what they have to say. I am a fan of that. You keep doing you Matthew, I will keep watching
I have a 69 Fender Mustang which had similar issues when I purchased it about 20 years ago. I cleaned the pots, replaced the switches and the pickups, did a full setup. It plays and sounds pretty good now.
I bet “money for nothing” would sound pretty cool with that out of phase setting.
Damn someone played the living shit out of that thing.
Isn’t that so flippin’ COOL?!
Thats what I look for! Love it!
Great sound at 12:00, and when you switch to the bridge pickup at 12:45, the first chords made me think of the intro to “Jesus Just Left Chicago”- I’d LOVE to hear you play that on this guitar; sweet, bright singing tone with just a little dirt to it… Thank you!
Man Matt here. I miss my 64. Thanks.
Awesomeness. Absolutely love those old Mustang Duo's.
As a Mustang-player i can say that the out of phase mode is great when playing with fuzz. That is where it shines.
I love how you take a finder fence post. And make it sound dreamy. You're one hell of a player mister scott
Matt’s vids just are just like his playing... awesome!
Pots need a bit of lube to protect the carbon trace and wiper, contact cleaner is fine for switches and connectors but will clean off all the lube from a pot. Something like Deoxit D5 will help pots last longer. The old duo sonic style pickups are some of my favorite, I have 50's one in the middle position on my main strat, the flat pole pieces have a more balanced sound to my ear.
I've had good luck with Deoxit as well. I have used it on everything, amps, guitars, vacuum cleaners electronics, treadmill electronics, smartphone charge ports, even vehicle plugs/switches. It cleans well and leaves a light film of lube on the components. Well worth the $ if you ask me.
DeOxit D5 for the win! 👍👍
Amazing how you wake these vintage guitars up and they sound fantastic. Truly inspiring to add a new avenue in my collecting guitars. Your play is so fluid and natural. Thanks for the work on the channel and keep up the great work!!
I can see why Doug or whoever played the shit out of that guitar. It sounds fantastic.
This guitar really sings, what a beautiful sound
I have watched this guy for a couple years and this dude seems like a legit nice person…. Obviously loves his Fender Vintage stuff. Seems he is like the rest of us just trying to carve out successful career. Props Brother!
Love the carving on the guitar. So much character!!
Great...nice to see that instrument revived...sounded great..bit of history...now it gets to go on making music!
7:10 Making the neck with the signature & date shows the pride companies & the people who worked took in the work they did.
Now a days most products are mass produced junk that you pay top dollar for then within years (or sometimes months) are junk.
I’d say keep the writing, it gives it a story and a nice unique feel!
Every video is an absolute joy to watch.
The Doug Duo-Sonic! Nice one. I kind of like the out-of-phase sound. Thanks for sharing.
Fender should make you head of a secret department that would clean up the market of vintage guitars and you would oversee their restauration for resale as player grade guitars.
I had a Fender Mustang similar to that maybe 40 years ago or more. Bought at dirt cheap at a local store. Played the crumb out of it. Had the whammy roll bar type. Sold and traded it for a more expensive ovation. But now it's probably maybe 10 times more than I got for it. I know people that fix them up and it wasn't worth it.back.then. might be worth it nowadays but I got my money's worth out of it meaning just playing the heck out of it. It really improved my quickness on the guitar. Hope you enjoy yours.
Sounds great. I have a 65 Mustang that looks just like that but with the 24" B neck. They are great little vintage Fenders.
You have tone in your fingers young man! And out of phase sound for me is the Brian May sound and thr sound of a lot of queen he loves it.
The first time I watched you was Musicmaster Huge Tone. I had one and let it go way back, so thanks to you I got another one, a '78.Cheers!
I’m happy you left the I love you tag on the guitar.
I love that quirky out of phase tone!
Had a 78 Musicmaster...totally different animal but a real rocker throu my Silverface Bassman Ten! Cheers to the Leo AND post Leo "F" eras.
Matthew, you are the guitar equivalent of those channels that find lost, neglected, abused, or starving dogs, full of ticks and fleas, their fur matted, and they clean them up, and slowly breathe life back into them, and voila, a new dog appears, full of life!
Sometimes I think, if those old guitars you rescue could speak...they'd say thank you.
….come come now….most of these instruments have long been identified as having exponential value…clean or not….they are certainly not waiting in the corner like broken toys in The Toy Story….all of them have a line up of competing investors at the door….ready to pay top dollar…no matter how bad a shape they may be in..as long as they have mostly original parts.
@@zeroceiling True enough but i still get a charge out of seeing him bring these old guitars back to life.
mark dietz …sure Mark…that I can understand and also enjoy…
Thanks so much Mark!
11:25 Wow, sounds pretty good!
Dude, you're such a cool cat. I'd hang with you for sure if we lived in the same town. How you find all these vintage guitars is beyond me but much respect for your channel efforts, playing skills, and time put in acquiring awesome old guitars.
Among other things, he goes to Dallas.
Mustangs are by far and large some of the coolest and my favorite guitars out there
That ones a keeper! I need to keep my eyes peeled for one. That was great that with a little contact cleaner everything worked smooth, keeping it very original. Fantastic find!
WoW!
That sounds great!
I’ve got “Jonie” and a scratched out phone number on the back of an old Gruhn acoustic. No idea who she is, Jonie Mitchell I dream of though.
Yes. I still own a 1966 Mustang. I would never sell it. It's just so unique and plays so well.
One for your collection. Nothing wrong with those tones, nothing at all.
Loved the video. I'm a bass player and I work on and assemble my own basses nowadays. Great to see you at work. Also, my wife's birthday is 9 April 1965, and her name is Ann. Since I prefer A width Jazz necks I have kept my eyes open for a neck date just like this one for years...... Very cool!
Doug looks and sounds terrific, I'd have him in a shot!
What’s interesting is Fender did not spend much less money building one of these Duo sonic or Mustangs than they did when making a Stratocaster… despite the different vintage valuation,
This model was price point manufacturing, to capture the younger market... so with the right neck I imagine these could be a steal.
Brian May plays a 22" scale neck. John Lennon played a 22" scale Rickenbacker in the early 60s.
Absolutely LOVE guitars like that!
Your channel is so good it almost makes me not feel guilty about watching guitar videos instead of practice.
I really enjoyed that. Thanks for taking us through the process. Cool Guitar.
That guitar tells lots of stories!!!