Summer Namm Duo Sonic

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Thu Jun 30, 2016 5:33 pm

Are they called "Mavis"?

chemistforhire · Post by **chemistforhire** » Thu Jun 30, 2016 5:37 pm

BearBoy wrote:Are they called "Mavis"?

Yes. Here is another pic:

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Thu Jun 30, 2016 5:53 pm

That's awesome.

wadeaminute · Post by **wadeaminute** » Thu Jun 30, 2016 8:32 pm

robroe wrote:lol i never saw a super sonic for 350 in my life

squier or fender

I bought my first Squier for $299. I bought my last two Fenders, a red and an orange, for $350 each in the fall of 2014 from Sam Ash. The most I've paid for any, of the nine, is $500.

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Fri Jul 01, 2016 3:18 pm

chemistforhire wrote:
BearBoy wrote:Are they called "Mavis"?
Yes. Here is another pic:

I actually like it very much

vojtasTS29 · Post by **vojtasTS29** » Fri Jul 01, 2016 9:38 pm

I love the fact that mrd is a very rough word for fucking in my language.

singlepup · Post by **singlepup** » Sat Jul 02, 2016 5:02 pm

robroe wrote:lol i never saw a super sonic for 350 in my life

squier or fender

I saw them; this happened for sure. It was a blow out on the PS Super Sonics in like 2014. The orange sparkle stuff. I don't think they sold well and were marked down by like 50% after being discontinued. The Super Sonics then sold out in about a month.

singlepup · Post by **singlepup** » Sat Jul 02, 2016 5:02 pm

I kinda like those Mavis duos!

blane · Post by **blane** » Sun Jul 03, 2016 1:49 pm

BearBoy wrote:According to a bloke on OSG (who had early info re the VM offsets and Squire VIs etc):

They're MIM and are $449. There's also MIM hardtailed Mustangs with different pickup configurations for $449. And a MIM Mustang bass with a PBass Special pickup config for $549.

at that price they're very temping. I might impulse buy one at lunch one day.

GreenKnee · Post by **GreenKnee** » Sun Jul 03, 2016 2:59 pm

Fakir Mustache wrote:But check out the Duo Sonic in this thread:
http://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?t=40503

the pic was apparently from another forum, but it's not there anymore.

It's a '90s Mexican or Chinese Duo Sonic body, but in any case repainted and with a mint replacement 'guard and different neck, and it looks like the new model except for the slanted bridge pickup, rosewood fretboard and different bridge.

Oh hey

I still have this guitar!!

It's a '65 B short scale neck, not sure what guitar from originally as it has been painted orange on the headstock with a duo sonic II decal.

The neck is wonderful, I swapped the pickups for lace sensors, and have been meaning to refin as I'm not into the orange anymore

Mattsican · Post by **Mattsican** » Sun Jul 10, 2016 6:50 am

robroe wrote:

HHHNNNNNGHHHHHHH!!!

Johnny Alien · Post by **Johnny Alien** » Sun Jul 10, 2016 11:47 pm

I am into the entire concept and price but am disappointed in the fretboard/color lockdown. It's impossible to get a standard Duo-Sonic with a rosewood board I need to have the humbucker version. Same with the Mustang...I have to go with a P-90 to get rosewood. I like the maple board body colors a bit better too. I just wish that I wasn't locked into a non-traditional pickup choice because I want a rosewood board.

Johnny Alien · Post by **Johnny Alien** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 12:34 pm

This actually irritates me more the more I think about it. Mustangs historically have been rosewood fingerboard instruments. I could understand doing the Duo-Sonic as a maple board and the Mustang as a rosewood board (even though in this case they are the same thing pretty much) but to have no single coil options with a rosewood board is just crazy.

BoringPostcards · Post by **BoringPostcards** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 11:43 pm

I can't wait until more info comes out on these. I really want both the orange duo and the olive green duo II (refuse to call them mustangs).
I haven't had GAS for a long time, but the idea of a Duo Sonic II with a modern radius and frets got me frothing at the mouth.
I'll get that Olive one and then I'll add proper slide switches and a Duo Sonic II decal. Probably try to find a toronado bridge or something more similar to the original duo bridges, of course without the archaic 3 saddle (I like intonation)

Johnny Alien · Post by **Johnny Alien** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 1:22 am

I could warm up to the white P-90 version. I thought I saw someone post a release date but now I see nothing. Was it October? I have the urge to throw one of these bridges on one.

http://www.guitarfetish.com/Cutaway-Wil ... _1805.html

StevePirates · Post by **StevePirates** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 6:01 pm

24 inch maple fretboard. Done. Sold. I'll take two.

wetbelly · Post by **wetbelly** » Sun Jul 17, 2016 5:26 pm

Any chance for lefty versions of these I wonder?

BobArsecake · Post by **BobArsecake** » Sun Jul 17, 2016 5:29 pm

Gorgeous, but I don't know why Fender persist with those awful machine heads.

singlepup · Post by **singlepup** » Sun Jul 17, 2016 5:46 pm

StevePirates wrote:24 inch maple fretboard. Done. Sold. I'll take two.

You should check the Guitar Fetish website. Earlier this week I saw a 24" maple fretboard for $15. You don't have to buy them from Fender.

Johnny Alien · Post by **Johnny Alien** » Sun Jul 17, 2016 11:27 pm

Those clearance necks that GF sells are not even worth $15. Total garbage.