All these issues are why I got it so cheap though, so I'm not complaining. It still needs a bit more work, but it's a million times better now. I gave the maple a thorough going-over with 0000 steel wool and took out most of the globs of finish that were on it. It will require some delicate work with some micro-mesh to fix that. It's splotchy and he actually put the lacquer on the rosewood fretboard. What a cool little guitar!Ī previous owner had the body refinished in Lake Placid Blue and he attempted to refinish the neck himself - and did a pretty poor job! It looks like he just dunked it in a vat of lacquer and then let it dry. Mostly likely, since Fender was backordered on these guitars, slab boards were used because the manufacturing process was quicker for this style of fingerboard (a veneer fingerboard requires another manufacturing step).I feel like I've been waiting forever for FedEx to show up with this one! It's a 1966 Fender MusicMaster II. This is not correct as the dot spacing, peghead shape, and type of rosewood on a 1962 jaguar neck is different than these 9/65 to 10/66 necks. Some Fender experts speculate that the slab board necks were leftovers from 1962 Jaguars. The 24" scale Duo-Sonic II, Musicmaster II, and Mustang of the September 1965 to October 1966 period are sometimes found with a slab rosewood fingerboard, usually of Indian rosewood. It was available with either a 22.5" or 24" scale, but is most often found with the longer scale. The differences in the new generation were in the body shape, pickguard, and electronics. These models are more like the Mustang (except the Mustang has a vibrato), than the original DuoSonic/MusicMaster models. The "II" designation was then added to the DuoSonic and MusicMaster names. In late 1964 both models moved to second generation, coinciding with the introduction of the Mustang. Housed in the original Fender gray hardshell case with black leather ends and red plush lining (8.75). This guitar is in exceptionally fine (9.00) condition with minimal playing wear to the original frets, some very light finish checking and just a few surface chips and marks - mainly on the edges of the body. Combined bridge/tailpiece with three adjustable 'threaded' saddles. The potentiometers are both stamped "137 6642" (CTS, October 1966). Black plastic control knobs with seven sides and white line marker. Two controls (one volume, one tone) plus two three-way pickup selector switches. Three layer tortoiseshell over white/black plastic pickguard with twelve screws. The neck is stamped in black "16 JUL 66B". Two plain-top cream Bakelite covered single-coil pickups with gray bottoms and balanced outputs of 6.35k and 6.30k. Four-bolt 'F' style neckplate with serial number "177266" stamped between the top two screws. Headstock with transition logo with "Fender" in gold with black trim and beneath that ""Duo-Sonic II" / Pat.2,573,254 2,960,900 Des. Individual 'two-line' Kluson Deluxe tuners with white plastic oval buttons with "D-169400 / PATENT NO." inside. One-piece maple neck with veneer rosewood fretboard with 22 original medium frets and pearloid dot position markers. Solid alder asymmetrical double-cutaway 'slab' body. and has a nut width of just under 1 9/16 inches and a 'full' scale length of 24 inches and a medium neck profile. This 12 inch wide and 1 1/2 thick 'custom-color' guitar weighs 7.50 lbs. Exceptionally fine Olympic White Duo-Sonic II.