How do you feel about doublenecks?
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How do you feel about doublenecks?
If you were to assemble a doubleneck offset what would you want? Would you decorate it differently then a regular guitar, ex bound neck vs dots color, pickgaurd style? I'm playing with the idea in my head and I'm rather conflicted. Give your thoughts on doublenecks any combo goes.
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Re: How do you feel about doublenecks?
The most promising thing about a double neck build is that you have even more room to put on tort.
XII on top with a jag on bottom and a one piece tort guard with blocks and binding.
put some spinners on it too while you're at it.
XII on top with a jag on bottom and a one piece tort guard with blocks and binding.
put some spinners on it too while you're at it.
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Yeah that's either the make it or break it thing though, if spitfire and I could make it work I'd e 3x as for it. I was thinking blocks and binding but with a sherwood green I wonder how I'd like that. I actually like dot inlays best. But something like this the extra decoration has merit.
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Re: How do you feel about doublenecks?
This guy - Mel Bergman from the Phantom Surfers - did:
I don't really have much need for 12-string these days, so if I ever did it I'd do a combo Jazzmaster (or Jaguar?) and Bass VI type of thing. I think that would be neat..Olympic White with either tortoise or gold guard. Maybe put the Bass VI on the bottom so the headstocks end at roughly the same place once you factor in that lower offset? And it wouldn't be the primary neck (for me), so having it lower and out of the way vs. the Jazzmaster or Jaguar on top/closer/easier to get to would work better in my case. It would be more of a novelty/design exercise for me (I don't know if I'd want to hold that thing up all night, but it would be neat to pull it out on certain songs or use for an entire set).
In fact, I'd make the top neck whatever my regular single-neck wasn't: if my main, primary guitar was a Jazzmaster, then I'd do a Jaguar + Bass VI on the doubleneck (or a Jazzmaster + Bass VI if I were mainly a Jaguar player). Maximum variety, minimum hardware. I'd make both necks/models based on something I wasn't already playing (or owned), for sure. It would be my secondary, "fill in the gap" guitar.
What do you currently have/play? That might point you in the direction of overall design/approach/utility.
I would actually have it styled quite traditionally (see above color/pickguard choices) because I prefer to anchor quirkier, non-traditional designs with traditional, classic finishes, pickguard material, hardware, etc. to kinda balance it out.
I don't really have much need for 12-string these days, so if I ever did it I'd do a combo Jazzmaster (or Jaguar?) and Bass VI type of thing. I think that would be neat..Olympic White with either tortoise or gold guard. Maybe put the Bass VI on the bottom so the headstocks end at roughly the same place once you factor in that lower offset? And it wouldn't be the primary neck (for me), so having it lower and out of the way vs. the Jazzmaster or Jaguar on top/closer/easier to get to would work better in my case. It would be more of a novelty/design exercise for me (I don't know if I'd want to hold that thing up all night, but it would be neat to pull it out on certain songs or use for an entire set).
In fact, I'd make the top neck whatever my regular single-neck wasn't: if my main, primary guitar was a Jazzmaster, then I'd do a Jaguar + Bass VI on the doubleneck (or a Jazzmaster + Bass VI if I were mainly a Jaguar player). Maximum variety, minimum hardware. I'd make both necks/models based on something I wasn't already playing (or owned), for sure. It would be my secondary, "fill in the gap" guitar.
What do you currently have/play? That might point you in the direction of overall design/approach/utility.
I would actually have it styled quite traditionally (see above color/pickguard choices) because I prefer to anchor quirkier, non-traditional designs with traditional, classic finishes, pickguard material, hardware, etc. to kinda balance it out.
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Re: How do you feel about doublenecks?
I'd have a Bass VI on the top neck and a Jaguar on the bottom. Or maybe a Jazzmaster on the bottom, I could go either way on that. I don't like twelve string guitars very much, and I don't see any point in a multi-neck instrument where the necks are too similar.
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I have a jazzmaster a jazzblaster and a starcaster ri, a part of the thinking is that I do have that jazzblaster modded cij with mastery hardware and rewound wrhbs. I like that guitar but I don't love it. At least not compared to my jazzmaster. So I was going to strip the hardware and pickups on that guitar and add it to the xii build I've been workin on which I also have all the parts for. I was thinking charcoal frost with b&b matching headstocks. I'm wondering if I should do tort.
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Re: How do you feel about doublenecks?
XII top/VI bottom...or vice versa. Dreams:)
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Re: How do you feel about doublenecks?
I'd have a jazz bass on bottom and a jazzmaster on top. I sometimes wish I had something like that in my band. But the I use my bass vi which might be much more friendly to my back and neck...
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Re: How do you feel about doublenecks?
Might be useful for live use, but for recording or home playing, forget it. That makes it an incredible extravagance that I've never felt worth it.
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Re: How do you feel about doublenecks?
A double neck is sooooooooooo far down on my list that it's hard to imagine what I'd use it for. But maybe like a jaguar on top and a bass VI on the bottom---something with bass range if I were to try my hand at lots of live looping and overdubbing (thinking mainly of El Ten Eleven).
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I'm of two minds about them.
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Re: How do you feel about doublenecks?
I could only imagine having a double neck if it was with bouzouki/oud/banjo/mandolin/misc necks.
It would be easier to carry and to play it, plus it would be easier to justify having exotic sounds... so I could use it.
I would never have a use for a double instrument with regular guitars and bass sounds.
It would be easier to carry and to play it, plus it would be easier to justify having exotic sounds... so I could use it.
I would never have a use for a double instrument with regular guitars and bass sounds.
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Re: How do you feel about doublenecks?
I could never own one, but I don't hate the idea. They're novelties, so they should reflect that. Bass/XII in some crazy sparkle color or something outrageous like a sitar/banjo with built in theremin. A regular 6 string/Xii string seems pointless.
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Back in those days, everyone knew that if you were talking about Destiny's Child, you were talking about Beyonce, LaTavia, LeToya, and Larry.
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Re: How do you feel about doublenecks?
That's an amazing studio-like banjo effect that that double neck guitar has. It's almost like they are playing to something that was pre-recorded!