I now have a 1955 Fender Dual neck 8-string console Steel. It has lollypop tuner buttons, chrome oval p'up covers and a pair of pickups for each neck. It does NOT have the small thumbwheel in the bridge for blending pickups for each neck
To help understand which model it is, the case has a slight trapezoid shape (cross-section) where the four legs have their own walled off compartment under the case lid, with two snap buttons to keep the wall shut.
It's the switching and controls that I'm trying to understand (since it does something weird) and I'd like to ensure it's wired as standard.
The controls are
- a volume and tone pot on the bottom (closest to the player) neck, just next to the bridge on a chrome plate.
- two black slide switches (which look like Fender Jaguar guitar switches) on the upper neck (to the right of the bridge) that suppose to turn each neck on/off and pickup selectors.
There's no middle section between necks for controls. It does NOT have telecaster-type blade switch (that I've seen on similar Dual-8's).
These switches make no sense at all how they're currently wired. I can't seem to get both pickups working but don't yet know why. I suspect the previous owner has changed the controls somehow.
Can anyone tell me how SHOULD these controls work on this SPECIFIC model?
thanks
barry.b
Brisbane, Australia
(edited to add photo)
