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If you had $6000 and buying a doubleneck ...
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 11:34 am
by doctorwho
... would you buy this at $5899:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41439&item=3761163702&rd=1
or this at $5495:
http://homer.netmar.com/~muscon2/r74.jpg
I bet it's not too hard to figure out which one I would prefer!
Of course, I'm not at the point of getting that 362, although I'm tempted to trade the 4080 JG towards it ...
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:24 pm
by adam_swapp
Geez, I might be tempted to play them first and make my decision afterwards.
I gotta wonder how you're supposed to get to those upper frets on the Ferrington's 12-string neck, though.
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:40 pm
by doctorwho
With
very long fingers? Like Nosferatu?
(image from
http://www.sloppyfilms.com/murnau/nosferat.htm)
I think the name of his band was "The Grateful Undead" ...
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 3:21 pm
by seaneldon
the ferrington would be a lot cooler if the p90 and the toaster were on the 6 string and the humbucker was on the 12. and if it was 5000 dollars cheaper.
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 5:05 pm
by cheyenne
If I had $6K to spend on a doubleneck........I'd sit around and stare at it all day.
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 6:05 pm
by dale_fortune
For $2,500.00 I'll build you a DBL.Neck bound body
with Toasters or H.B's or P-90's you can decide.Take the 3 grand left over and buy a couple of other nice Guitars or a down payment on a car.
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 6:45 pm
by cheyenne
Dale, I gotta feeling your going to be real popular here on the forum.
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:55 pm
by doctorwho
Hey Dale, have you read the archives about my "622" doubleneck project? I'd appreciate and highly value your input.
Here's the original thread:
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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 9:17 pm
by atomic_punk
Gary, I was looking for more info on that project, very interested in the result. How did it turn out, or is it still ongoing?
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 10:15 pm
by doctorwho
Still ongoing, Steve.
I have the two guitars (620/6 and 620/12), both Midnight Blue, but have been waiting for a friend to get his garage cleared out enough to set up his table saw to make the initial cuts. I have a jointer to clean up the cuts, and have a nice piece of maple for the center piece (which the two bodies attach to).
I have some preliminary ideas with regard to the width of the center piece (I made some paper templates for a mock-up), but I will really need to see it with the top and bottom to make sure the headstocks have good clearance.
I also have the "neck selector switch" which will be needed to be mounted somewhere, probably on the pickguard.
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 9:40 am
by atomic_punk
How do the 2 midnight blue guitars match up in terms of color? Since they are painted by hand, I wonder if they are exactly the same or a little different, esp. if they are different years. And are you going to finish the maple block?
Are you going to have to drill thru the center maple piece to wire to a single output jack and toggle switch? It's gonna be cool if you can do it! I saw that fantasy Ric and its a killer.
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 11:54 am
by mortivan
For $6000, I don't think I'd be looking at a basswood guitar...
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 12:05 pm
by dale_fortune
Thanks Gary for that info. It's been quite awhile
but I have grafted 460 12's and 6's together into a Double Neck. Pretty simple accualy. Cut, join, glue up, and touch up the edges, unless you want to refinish the whole instrument. Make a large pick guard to hold all the hardware and set it up to play. I'll try and post a picture of one I did in 1977 then finished it a dark brown.
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 12:43 pm
by dale_fortune
Gary, I just noticed you are from Tustin. Did you ever come into my shop at Walnut and Franklin just south of Red Hill ave. behind the Helicopter base? We moved to Portland Oregon in 1983, have a shop on the back of our property where we still build guitars.
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 5:30 pm
by doctorwho
Steve: the guitars are a 2002 and a 2003, and the colors match fairly well. I was planning on having just the body redone (including the maple center block), but that's a far-future decision which I will make when the time comes.
For the wiring, you have the right idea, as I am planning to drill through the block and lead the pickup wires to the "neck selector switch" which will have its output wired to a single set of controls and dual-output jacks (standard/Ric-O-Sound), in the original position on the lower bout. If done right, it will give a very clean look to the guitar.
Dale: I'd love to see a picture of your 460 doubleneck. Because the 620 has the small bilevel pickguard, I will be trying to make everything fit within that same "look" rather than make a larger pickguard.
I moved to Tustin in January 2001, so I never had the honor of visiting your shop. I was still in grad school at the U of I (Illinois, that is) in 1983.
