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Title: I started work on a double neck guitar
Post by: blazer on April 24, 2007, 11:11:56 AM
When you work as much with guitars as I do, you're bound to end up with a pile of spare parts consisting of bodies, necks, tuners, bridges and pickups.
 
Today I decided to thin that pile out a bit and make something from all I had laying around.  
*I had two halves of a bass body that only missed a mid section to make it a complete body.  
*I had a body blank that was too narrow to make a full body from, so I had something to make the mid section from.  
*I had two Fender Strat copy necks, one of them being a 3/4 scale.
 
So I decided to combine them all and this is the result.
 
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/adoubleneck.jpg (http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/adoubleneck.jpg)
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/adoubleneck2.jpg
 
When I took these pictures, the whole thing wasn't even glued together, so I have a lot of work ahead of me but I am already enjoying it.
Title: I started work on a double neck guitar
Post by: blazer on April 24, 2007, 04:46:30 PM
Some more pictures of my guitar coming together.
 
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0005.jpg (http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0005.jpg)
Readying the body parts to be glued together.
 
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0006.jpg (http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0006.jpg)
Here I am applying the glue.
 
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0007.jpg (http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0007.jpg)
All clamped up and drying.
Title: I started work on a double neck guitar
Post by: lbpesq on April 24, 2007, 07:02:03 PM
Wouter, Wouter:
 
Very cool 2xneck.  Very cool 2xneck.
Keep the pics coming as it progresses.
Keep the pics coming as it progresses.
 
Bill, tgo
Bill, tgo
Title: I started work on a double neck guitar
Post by: blazer on April 25, 2007, 02:31:56 PM
okay then here's the building update.
 
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0011.jpg (http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0011.jpg)
The body on the routing template
 
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0012.jpg (http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0012.jpg)
Routing the upper neck pocket
 
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0013.jpg (http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0013.jpg)
Checking to see if I didn't rout the pocket too deep.
 
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0014.jpg (http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0014.jpg)
Readying the body for the rout of the neck pocket of the lower neck.
 
 
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0015.jpg (http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0015.jpg)
And I'm routing the pocket
 
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0017.jpg (http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0017.jpg)
Routing the neck pickup cavity of the lower neck
 
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0018.jpg (http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0018.jpg)
And the one from the upper neck
 
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0020.jpg (http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0020.jpg)
And routing the bridge pickup from the upper neck
 
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0022.jpg (http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0022.jpg)
Carving the midsection of the body
 
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0023.jpg (http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0023.jpg)
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0024.jpg
The result of a day of very hard work
 
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0026.jpg (http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0026.jpg)
The guitar at home with the necks in the pockets and the pickup of the lower neck in place.
Title: I started work on a double neck guitar
Post by: lbpesq on April 25, 2007, 04:03:58 PM
Cool!
 
Bill, tgo
Title: I started work on a double neck guitar
Post by: blazer on May 05, 2007, 06:51:18 PM
Well, I started to put in the necks today, I abandoned the idea of having a shorter neck at the bottom so both necks will be regular Fender 25.5 scale necks. I'll probably put a Piezo in the bridge of the bottom neck.
 
I previously applied the sealer coats and what a cool looking woods they turned out to be with a load of clear coating.
 
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0032.jpg (http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0032.jpg)
The body in sealer coat, showing off the structure of that wonderful maple.
 
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0034.jpg (http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0034.jpg)
And a close up of that pretty wood structure
 
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/nekken1.jpg (http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/nekken1.jpg)
Clamping the necks in place while the glue sets in.
 
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/nekken2.jpg (http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/nekken2.jpg)
A couple of hours later after the glue has dried.
 
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/nekken3.jpg (http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/nekken3.jpg)
The backview of the guitar showing off the heels and the backrouts.
 
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/Koppen.jpg (http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/Koppen.jpg)
Both headstocks, what you see is filler coating on the rosewood veneer of the right headstock, It's gonna look stunning when dried and buffed. I'll probably do the other headstock like that too.
Title: I started work on a double neck guitar
Post by: keavin on May 07, 2007, 03:28:46 AM
Not Bad!
Title: I started work on a double neck guitar
Post by: blazer on May 07, 2007, 11:03:03 AM
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/doubleneckbody2.jpg
 
Well you guys, as you can see, I assembled the guitar. There is still a lot of work to do on it in order to tidy it up but I just HAD to put it together to hear how it sounds.
 
First and foremost the sections accoustically sound completely different, the lower neck has a fuller more rounded out sound while the upper neck sounds tighter, more focussed. I guess it's because I routed the pocket of the upper neck deeper that makes all the difference. Right now I'm thinking of putting a synth controller on the lower neck.