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FENTON-WEILL
STREAMLINE - DE LUXE - TUXMASTER - AMERICAN RANGE
TWISTER RANGE - DUALMASTER - SPECTRATONE - FIBRATONE
HOHNER - BELL - DALLAS - ADVERTS
BURNS-WEILL (1959) - OTHER BURNS & RELATED (1958-1992)
Dualmaster, 1963-1965
First introduced c.1963 as with a glued-in heel-less neck, revised to a bolt on neck with a small neckplate of scratchplate material around 1964. Final version (c. late 1964) has smaller and more rectangular pickups - same as the ones used on the 'Spectratone' models
This guitar was available in off-white, see-through green and see-through cherry red, with a blown-in black neck. On the early, set neck versions, the finish is a melamine plastic coat, whereas the bolt on variants tend to have a regular nitro-cellulose coat.
The usual Weill dot arrangement at the twelfth fret (one large central dot flanked by two smaller dots) seems to have been abandoned on later models for a regular two dot layout.
Dualmasters are comparatively common in the UK, as they were also sold here via mail order and accordingly became the final Fenton-Weills to remain in production, before Henry switched all his attention to the growing disco business.
1963 Dualmaster in Green
And another set-neck example in green
1964
Introduction of bolt-on necks, rectangular and/or 'Penetrone' pickups, and fibreglass experiments
1964 DualMasters
(Above is a sympathetic rebuid with some non-original fittings/pickguard)
1964/5? Dualmaster
bolt-on neck, rectangular pickups, changed tuners?
1964/5? Dualmaster
bolt-on neck, rectangular pickups
1964/5? Dualmaster
bolt-on neck, rectangular pickups
1964 Dualmaster
Serial No.4245
Unusual (unique?) natural finish neck
1964/5? Dualmaster Bass