Duesenberg 49er

The standard Les Paul shape body. The features are pretty much covered in the other reviews here so I won't repeat them again. Mine came with a hard case (not sure this is standard though?). When you first try one out you'll notice she is a fairly heavy guitar, being mahogany and all.

This is a super versatile guitar capable of both a rich full sound on the neck and middle positions and also a cutting bright sound on the bridge pick-up (will cut through any mix). Fantastic sustain courtesy of the string-thru body set-up and heavy solid body and high output pickups to get the best out of your pedals. Anyone should be able to get a great sound out of this guitar.

The out-of-the-box set-up was very good, with a low action and well set intonation, no complaints (not sure if Music Ground did a set-up on it). No flaws whatsoever in fact, very well made guitar.

I've had this guitar about 3 years now and i'm very pleased with it. It's built like a tank and i'm sure will last forever. Ultra-reliable.

I've had zero problems with this guitar so I've never had reason to contact them.

I've been playing about 20 years playing mostly rock, blues and alternative and in that time I have owned loads of guitars. This guitar is great value for money. I tried out a few Les Pauls before I bought this and I came to the conclusion that the 49er has a character of it's own AND you can get a Les Paul sound out of it as well. My other guitars are mostly Fenders and Gibsons.

Mahogany body, mahogany neck, rosewood fingerboar,12''radius,25.5''scale, string through body. Duesenberg P90 at the neck, Duesenberg Grand vintage at the bridge, 3way switch, one master tone, one master volume.
49er is refering the birth of the Fender Broadcaster, the first official solidbody guitar. Actually, for the scale length, string through body, master volume and master tone and a warm neck, twang middle, and full body bridge sound,it's a Les Paul in a telecaster concept

As I said the neck pickup is a P-90, so its a warm single coil. slightly Less warm than a Gibson p-90 (but the longer scale can make something on this), the second switch position is the neck pickup+the inside coil of the humbucker. This second sound is a more like a strat quacky sound but with the fullness of a Les Paul. It's really not conventionnal so it's difficult to explain. The bridge pickup is a typical vintage PAF with ton of character in his sound.
The sustain is incredible and the master volume and tone a really progressive. You can get 3 or 4 different sound with only the bridge pickup just by playinjg with volume and tone. Gorgeous sounds.

Mine is perfect. no problem at all since 6 months, will wait few years to get a real opinion

Need to wait few years to know exactly but I made few gigs with it and it's still OK

Great. Very helpfull and answering you questions in maximum 2 days. Really great

The great sound of the Les Paul, the efficient design of a telecaster, the mix of the pickup for a better versatility. I think that duesenberg do not copy the huge standards of the electric guitar. Actually they push the concept to a next generation of guitars.
I have already try 4 Les Paul and always find something that I do not like on it. Now I found my "les Paul like guitar" that I love.
But my way to think is wrong, Duesenberg is a new standard of the electric guitar on its own and do not need to be compare to gibson, Gretsch of Fender.
Please note that 9/10 rate is the maximum for me as I let the 10/10 unreachable to push guitar maker on the perfection way.
Or 9,5/10 if you prefer
Really great value!!

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As a little guitarstore I have a few new Duesenberg guitars here.

If I compare this 49er to a special and a rocket it has more sustain then the special, a little more then the rocket that has also a set neck and more low end. The tone is rounded and therefor misses a little character. The special, rocket and starplayer TV have more bite, highs and twang as a 49er. In my eyes is this a good guitar for blues and jazz but if you are a metal guy take another look around.

Well here it comes. I have questions for the Duesenberg owners. I own and play a starplayer special for a year now and have found out that the paint is easely scratched ( by a button for example ) and the nickel shows some wear and tear spots. I own Ibanez, Gibson and Michael Kelly and never had this problems. I looked around on the internet and found nobody compleaning about this things. Very strange because the nickel is only 3 or 4 mu thick ( says an expert ).
I have also looked at other Duesenbergs who are hardly played and saw the same tear and wear spots.

I also noticed on a 49er, and other Duesenbergs, that the factory had leveled the frets. Some were hardly hit others were leveled till halfway the hight of the fret. Ibanez and any other brand do it better.

Anyway do you play a Duesenberg for a longer time and do you have the same experience as I have, please do not hesitate and write my. I will pass it on to the factory, maybe it will help they do not believe me. Write to ; starrplayerr@hotmail.com ( with double rr, twice ! )

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Honeyburst, LP Style
String-thu-body construction Adjustable STB System
25.5 scale
Mahogany back with Arched maple top
Mahogany neck, rosewood fingerboard
1 humbucker (Grand Vintage Humbucker) and 1 P90 (Custom Duesenberg- DP90)
3 way selector
Made in Germany, 2006

Neck is relatively thin, not as much as an Ibanez prestige neck would be, but a lot thinner than a standard U fender neck. Radius is 11', probably 13. With the low action this guitar can achieve, you can call it a "thunder and lightning fast neck" (can't compare to my wolfgang's neck though, sorry)

Sounds fantastic! The combination of a humbucker with a p90 is awesome. The P90 is a liiiitle noizy (the single coil origin) but not as much as a standard single coil would be.
I play through a peavey 5150 combo, with an ultra curve 24/96 equalizer and a Boss gt-8 in the effects loop.
The humbucker is crunchy with rich mids and bottoms and seems to lack a bit of highs (hey, what's the maple top doing?), but nothing a proper amp setting can't fix. The p90 sounds fantastic, it's the top feature of this guitar for me. If combined with the humbucker (middle position of selector) it produces a nice unique sound, not heard by any other pickup combination I've ever heard.
You can definitely play all kinds of rock and metal with this guitar (well, probably not death metal!).

Action was perfect. Here is where the lack of floyd rose pays off. You can configure the action to be rediculously low and no fret buzzes etc.
Factory setup was perfect (probably store setup).
Finish was perfect, the binding all over the guitar was perfect (there is a small ding at the binding at the bottom end of the body, but it's the store's fault, not the factory's, I'm totally positive)
No other flaws whatsoever. Perfect.
Did I mention it is beauuuuutiful???

No idea. Seems that it can last a lot.

No idea

What a great guitar. I play since 1992 and I was searching for an alternative to a gibson les paul standard. LP prices are so high now, that I could not possibly afford one, even not a used one. Bought the duesenberg for 1150 euros, and I am very happy. I compared it to my js1000, my Peavey Wolfgang Standard and my Jackson (as much as those guitars can be compared one another) and has a very nice place in my collection. Fills a gap, that even a LP standard could not fill (although it's not an LP copy, it has a character of its own). Don't hesitate to invest on a Duesenberg.