I started work on a double neck guitar

blazer · Post by **blazer** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:03 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/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.

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 11:10 am

Looks kinda like a BC Rich Bich doubleneck body-wise. Neato!

blazer · Post by **blazer** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:02 pm

Some more pictures of my guitar coming together.

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
Here I am applying the glue.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0007.jpg
All clamped up and drying.

charlyg · Post by **charlyg** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:33 pm

Cool stuff!! Can't read your newspaper tho!!!!

blazer · Post by **blazer** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 11:34 am

admin · Post by **admin** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 11:39 am

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing this project Wouter.

blazer · Post by **blazer** » Sat May 05, 2007 3:09 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
The body in sealer coat, showing off the structure of that wonderful maple.

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
Clamping the necks in place while the glue sets in.

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
The backview of the guitar showing off the heels and the backrouts.

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.

admin · Post by **admin** » Sat May 05, 2007 3:13 pm

Thanks for the update Wouter. Things are really starting to come together, right now ...

blazer · Post by **blazer** » Sun May 06, 2007 3:03 pm

I wired up and strung up the lower neck which has an Ibanez Super 58 humbucker from a Pat Metheny signature model and a sawed off top loading tele three barrel bridge. The resulting sound of the lower neck is a bright neck humbucker sound, not is dark and wooly as the neck humbucker from my Les Paul.

For the upper neck I also have an Ibanez 58 humbucker ready in the neck position and a Duncan 59 in the bridge, as soon as I'll wire and string that one up I'll tell what it sounds like and put down pictures of the finished guitar but there's still a lot of work left to do on the guitar.

blazer · Post by **blazer** » Mon May 07, 2007 8:07 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.

blazer · Post by **blazer** » Tue May 15, 2007 2:01 pm

Resumed work on my double neck today, when having it assembled I really missed having a bridge pickup at the lower section, I'm kinda baffled at how different the two halves sound from each other, seeing as how I used the same kind of necks, pickups and it's all the same piece of wood. I don't know why both haves sound as different but they just do.

So I applied rosewood veneer on the headstock of the upper neck (No picture of that yet), taped up the body so I could once again apply the heartline and went to the Mill of the workshop of my boss to add another pickup routing.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0126.jpg
Here's the body on the routing template, ready to recieve a bridge pickup cavity.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/100_0127.jpg
And here it is a few moments later.

Now I'll have to start sanding the body smooth and buff it to a shine. Before assembling it once more and calling it a finished guitar. But that'll take some time.

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Tue May 15, 2007 4:00 pm

Nice work so far, Wouter.

admin · Post by **admin** » Tue May 15, 2007 4:24 pm

Are you getting some ideas, Gary?

dale_fortune · Post by **dale_fortune** » Tue May 15, 2007 5:16 pm

Pretty cool Wouter....I like your overarm router also...

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Tue May 15, 2007 10:27 pm

Peter, the 622/12 project is always in the back of my mind ... just haven't had the time to devote to it.