I just picked up my 72 Music Master
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I just picked up my 72 Music Master
It used to be a Music Master. Now I guess it's a Duo-Sonic.
The body, neck, tuners, bridge, knobs, and control plate are original. The pickguard has been replaced, but it is an original 60's Mustang guard. The pickups are GFS strat pickups. I absolutely love the neck on this guitar.
The body, neck, tuners, bridge, knobs, and control plate are original. The pickguard has been replaced, but it is an original 60's Mustang guard. The pickups are GFS strat pickups. I absolutely love the neck on this guitar.
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Thanks guys, and it's definitely getting some covers. I can't decide if I want to put white robroes, white swiches and white witch hats on it, or to just keep it like it is but with black robroes.
I'm also thinking about changing the pickguard, maybe an original tort or a mint repro?
I'm also thinking about changing the pickguard, maybe an original tort or a mint repro?
skip wrote:satan rules
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well, duo-sonics were discontinued in '69 and musicmasters in '82. it would be interesting if CBS kept routing bodies for both pickups and putting the shielding in there and everything for absolutely no reason. I don't think broncos ever used the same bodies. I would guess '69 is when they stopped using bodies routed for 2 pickups on the musicmaster. all marc elroy says is, "At some point during this era [68-76], Music Master bodies were no longer factory-routed for a bridge pickup (since the Duo-Sonic had been discontinued)."Jagermeister wrote:ehh, according to this 76, so we're both kind of wrong
http://www.marcelroy.com/76_81/
They have covers on them, they're just the normal strat type covers.Jagermeister wrote:...uncovered pickups actually scare me because the windings can break so easily when installing/picking
gorgeous axe though
I'm definitely keeping two pickups in it, but I might try to find some original Mustang pickups for it.DuoSonicBoy wrote:That's amazing - at least whoever modded it did a good job with no real damage.
Will you keep the two PUPs or put it back to original?
Also, about the routes. Didn't Music Masters, Duo-Sonics and Mustangs share the same bodies aside from the trem routes? That would explain why it's routed for two pickups. Maybe they routed for pickups first, then routed some of them for the trem. I know I've seen lots of 70's MM bodies with bridge and neck routes.
I think the body and neck are original to eachother(at least that's what I was told). My understanding was that everything was original except the electronics, neck plate, and neck plate screws.
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musicmasters and duo-sonics shared the same bodies when they were produced concurrently, that is from 1956 to 1969. the question here is whether or not musicmasters made after that period had both routes.
i know for a fact that the ones produced after 1975 only had a neck pickup route.
CBS era fender was shoddy enough that it certainly could have taken them years to update their templates. if they had already been making these guitars the same way since 1964, why change things?
i know for a fact that the ones produced after 1975 only had a neck pickup route.
CBS era fender was shoddy enough that it certainly could have taken them years to update their templates. if they had already been making these guitars the same way since 1964, why change things?