While not vintage accurate it is superb, with a wide 'C' profile that feels 'right' from the off. Stellar neckīut we've left the best until last: the neck. The tuners are standard split-post vintage types and the 'student' cream plastic buttons suit the guitar. However, they are not as accurate as a Strat's individual saddles. There's no vibrato, but the top-load bridge is efficient with three saddles that, like a Tele's, are adjustable for height and intonation. Likewise the brushed aluminium scratchplate - a deeper gold than the originals and hopefully the anodising is more robust - that holds the two cream covered single-coils, Tele-knobbed volume and tone, the output socket and a robust feeling three-way toggle pickup selector on the treble-side horn. It may be manufactured in China but its finish takes you straight back to 1950s America. The Duo-Sonic features a really good desert sand finish over a thinner 38mm thick basswood body (with rear belly contour), that is more opaque than the original blonde. The fundamental difference is that, sensibly, the scale length is increased to 24-inches (the same as the Jaguar), and we have a different name on the headstock, but it has vintage vibe in spades. But of the range, this Duo-Sonic really does a very good job of nailing the original design.
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