DONUT Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v432/hzdonut/IM007365.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v432/hzdonut/IM007366.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 They are also missing two pickups. Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxofunk Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 They also have ugly heads. Who's the maker? - Matt W. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 One set of volume dials is weird. That means the neck that you aren't using is going to be vibrating sympathetically and making one heck of a racket....unless there is a neck selector switch that I am not seeing. Now if you wanted a double neck fretted fretless, you could get one like the Pedulla belonging to Mark Egan. (Read more about him in another thread). http://www.pedulla.com/assets/images/doubleNeck_pro.jpg This bass is fretless on one neck and an eight string on the other. Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 Here's another one of Mark's basses. http://www.pedulla.com/assets/images/double-neck.jpg Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 How about John Turner's doubleneck Conklin? Seven strings per neck..fretted and fretless. Check out this bad boy: http://lordonly.net/Images/John/jtdblneck1.jpg Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 Here's a Carvin: http://www.carvinmuseum.com/images/playersgallery/kevio-dn440t-edited.jpg An Ed Roman creation: http://www.edromanguitars.com/resources/images/wrrdnb.jpg A nice Alembic (also from Ed Roman's website): http://www.edromanguitars.com/featured/images/aledn1.jpg A Curbow bass: http://www.curbow.com/images/gallery/doubleneck01.jpg An Alembic beauty: http://www3.alembic.com/img/doubleneck.jpg A one-of-a-kind by Warrior: http://www.12stringbass.com/Double_Neck_12.jpg Basslab: http://www.basslab.de/OCT/GR/Instrumente/Basse/DN-vari/pictures/body_top.jpg A six/eight by Shergold: http://www.shergold.co.uk/images/gallery/custmod68fl.jpg Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 Photoshopped Ashbory creation (it's only vaporware at the moment): http://www.largesound.com/ashboryarticle/concept/doubleneck01/02cut.gif Why go any further?: http://www.harpguitars.net/iconography/calace_bass-hostetter.jpg I think I need to get a life. Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul K Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 This thread is heavy. Literally. I've got a sore back just looking at these bricks. Very pretty, but I'd think they'd make for a six Advil per gig habit. Chiropractor's wet dream. Things are just the way they are, and they're only going to get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theTragicRich Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 *drool* [Carvin] XB76WF - All Walnut 6-string fretless [schecter] Stiletto Studio 5 Fretless | Stiletto Elite 5 [Ampeg] SVT3-Pro | SVT-410HLF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric VB Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Hmm ... while I can respect the idea of fretted/fretless double-neckers, I don't think that's for me. And I'm usually the one that's looking for oddball ideas like that! I can see a 4/8 (or some variation thereof). I almost got a 4-string bass/6-string guitar (Gibson, or looked like Jimmy Page's double-neck Gibson anyhoo) at a guitar swap some years ago. Fortunately sanity reeled me in. I mean, it is enticing to have more than one instrument at your fingertips like that. If you don't like the weight, you can get the guitar stand thingie. Alex Lifeson from Rush uses one. He starts the song by playing the guitar on the stand, but he has another strung around his neck. When he's done with guitar #1 he just steps back, guitar securely held by stand, and starts playing guitar #2. Nifty. I guess it might be neat to have piccolo bass on one neck, and standard 4-string on the other. OTOH, why not just have a many-string ERB? With fanned frets you don't have to worry so much about scale length that would otherwise necessitate double necks. I don't know; musing out loud here. But a double-neck something sure would be cool! (Then of course there's John Paul Jones' triple-neck acoustics ... mmm, yummy!) [bTW, Jeremy, nice Ashbory. You should get the licenses and market that bad boy. Priced right, I'm sure at least one other dolt other than me would buy it. ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bottomgottem Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Originally posted by jeremy c: One set of volume dials is weird. That means the neck that you aren't using is going to be vibrating sympathetically and making one heck of a racket....unless there is a neck selector switch that I am not seeing. But since there appears to be only one p'up per neck, wouldn't the tone pot be the only common dial? My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle. ~Liberace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombierockstar Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 The Conklin...that's what I'm talkin' 'bout! Reverbnation-Solo Music Mad At The World Factory Air Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picker Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 I've been dreaming about a double fretted/fretless five for a while, and first post in this series is just about what I was dreaming of, fretless with fret markers and all.. The only difference is double pickups with active EQ for both necks. That woould be soooooo killer! Donut, what's the price on that thing and what brand is it? Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picker Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Whatcha wanna bet this weighs a ton? Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul K Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Did you see this one: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190004773691&ssPageName=MERC_VI_RSEE_Pr4_PcY_BIN_Stores_IT&refitem=190018043090&itemcount=4&refwidgetloc=active_view_item&usedrul e1=UpSell_LogicX&refwidgettype=cross_promot_widget OK, so the fretless bass part is no big deal, but I have never seen a fretless guitar. Things are just the way they are, and they're only going to get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcadmus Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 I want the big stand-up jobby in the picture with the guy with the hairdo! "Tours widely in the southwestern tip of Kentucky" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowbee Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 I'm really digging the colour scheme on that Basslab creation although I'm not big on headless basses. Now theres three of you in a band, youre like a proper band. Youre like the policemen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danzilla Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Yeah, the Basslab one is pretty nifty. Did Roger Dean help design the knobs? Haven't seen a Shergold since Mike Rutherford used them with Genesis in the '70's. Nice. "Am I enough of a freak to be worth paying to see?"- Separated Out (Marillion) NEW band Old band Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DONUT Posted November 14, 2006 Author Share Posted November 14, 2006 The volume knobs are st up so there is one for each bass. A guy I know took two SX jazz basses and put them together. The pickups are EMG and the tone knob is sort of a boost. It plays really nice when you are sitting down. Sounds good too. Its almost 17 lbs. I just thought it was kind of neat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davebrownbass Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Boy, that Jeremy sure knows how to use a search engine, eh? Rev it up! Actually, the Ashbory thing is really cool to me (if you could actually get one made.) I might like it better if the Ashbory could undock from the mother bass and stand alone. "Let's raise the level of this conversation" -- Jeremy Cohen, in the Picasso Thread. Still spendin' that political capital far faster than I can earn it...stretched way out on a limb here and looking for a better interest rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
... Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 I do rather fancy a few of those 8-string/fretless double neck jobs. Please, I beg of everyone, let us not speak of, or post pictures of, one John Turner. I've had my fill of the two licks he knows and the couch full of Conklin basses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimR Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 One for the ambidextrous. Might be a problem finding strings but it does go down another 2 octaves. http://www.timr.cd2.com/bassplayerimg/ambi.jpg Feel the groove internally within your own creativity. - fingertalkin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruuve Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 JC...I'm likin' the Ashory idea...that would add minimal weight...hmmm.... Dave Old bass players never die, they just buy lighter rigs. - Tom Capasso, 11/9/2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Capasso Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 I just came across this in Blender mag while in the dentist's office yesterday. Hamer built this thing for Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen http://www.hamerguitars.com/img/vintage/rick_guitarpic1.jpg More unusual stuff here: http://www.hamerguitars.com/?fa=rick_nielsen Tom www.stoneflyrocks.com Acoustic Color Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars and keep your feet on the ground. - Theodore Roosevelt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackpine Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Here's a little honey Chris used on the Going for the one tour. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d9/2_2275_8.jpg/350px-2_2275_8.jpg www.relayerstudios.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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