Double Necks...

LesbianWithAGun

A part of me wants a double neck.
I want the same one Jimmy Page rocked with, the same one Slash rocked with in Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion World Tour of the 1990's and the same one I've seen Afroman rock on too.

As far as I'm aware...
They only come in 3 colours.

If you haven't guessed the double neck I want yet, it's;
A Gibson SG 12 / 6 electric double neck.

That's not even the only double neck I want, but, if ever I was to get a double, I want a Gibson SG one...
...
It's so cool...


Jimmy Page's one



Slash's one

even

Afroman's one

IDK who else has this guitar... but, this is a guitar I remember eveywhere I see it...

I want it if it's nice to play on... I haven't even played on one (yet)...
...
I've played on copies ranging from okay, I guess, like a Samick built Epiphone vs. a Gibson Custom Shop... It's okay... (IDK what this copy was, but it, was alright I guess, but, was by no means 'nice'... I forget how much, but the price reflected...
It was going for hundreds but, the guitar I seek, that it's copying, goes for thousands if not tens of thousands? (like £12k? IDK)...
I mean a really nice one.
IDK though, haven't seen one on sale.
I want this guitar.
I've owned a really really - really cheap copy of this, that actually came in a lot of cool finishes, like natural (a blonde looking wood), like a UK racing green I'd call it and a bright red one...
I went for the green one... I forget exactly how much but I bought it off eBay.
- The fretboard felt like sandpaper...
I have a vintage 1960's Framus Hollywood that had a loving restoration in 2007 and 2008 in two parts, and that was cool because this old 1960's guitar had a new lease / a very cool new lease on life again and.... It was on it's stand, and I noticed 'when I played it' (Think this was pre Gibson days, like, pre my go to guitar days)... and... The head stock was held on with the strings of my Framus Hollywood...
I don't know how, but I accused that cheap copy (which was a big one) for somehow falling on it, even though it was stood up on the side...
I thought, at some point, it leaned on my Framus in it's stand and took out it's head stock...
So I ran to @FelineGuitars as you do, and when I got there, they just said it was 50 year old glue and my guitar I thought somehow hit it didn't do it... They fixed it, said it'll be good for another 50 years - yeah..
I like, that this cheap double neck copy I had, with a fret board that I likened to sandpaper, when I was working in this pawnshop close by to mine and the owner of it knew it, made me head of music, and would wake me up with this keys for his frequent holidays.. - I was able to turn a profit on that guitar AND I had a very satisfied customer.
That was a good deal all round.




This is just OP stuff, I have other double necks to talk about but this one...
Is 'the one I want since ever'. -

Double necks?

Danny1969

Play one most weeks, Gibson Custom shop SG. Great guitar but only used on things like Hotel California and Dead or Alive and er..... that's about it )

LesbianWithAGun

Danny1969 said:

Play one most weeks, Gibson Custom shop SG. Great guitar but only used on things like Hotel California and Dead or Alive and er..... that's about it )

I've already asked in my head if you were selling that guitar lol, that's how much I want one but... No... I'm too new, too stupid to be parting money on here, not no way no how any but, beautiful guitar!..

If you don't mind me asking, how much did it cost, or, do you work with it is somebody else letting you use their guitar? IDK, I IDK, some guitars can be hired, I guess, but, IDK, Wow though.

ToneControl

The Chester branch has a used double neck 
http://www.backalleymusic.co.uk/index.html ;

Danny1969

I think it was about 2K, it's not mine, I can't afford that kinda money. That particular band is sponsored so I get to play some amazing guitars.
It takes a while to get used to a double neck, they are Very neck heavy !

LesbianWithAGun

I come here actually, because of another double neck...
Mandolin/Guitar called a Genie (I think) caught my eye on instagram tonight.
(It's why we have thread, but, I really want that OP guitar, I'd hate to not mention it in such a thread)...
But it's this thing...

By Magic Wand Guitars, a young luthier Ryan Martian of instagram.

If I was a mandolin guy... but I'm not, but that looks nice/looks nice, I have no reason to doubt its niceness, but, until you play it, you never know. - looks nice though.

LesbianWithAGun

Danny1969 said:

I think it was about 2K, it's not mine, I can't afford that kinda money. That particular band is sponsored so I get to play some amazing guitars.
It takes a while to get used to a double neck, they are Very neck heavy !

Hmmm... 
Do you know how old it is? and like, does it have logo and serial number and case and all of that?
But, IDK, looks nice.

LesbianWithAGun

That one by Guild, that Crossroads, I think I've seen Slash run around it shooting the music video to Estranged, and if you ever see the making of it, Slash whips out a killer riff on that red double neck 'THINK it's a Guild Crossroads'...
But it sounds (if it is that guitar) really nice and bluesy.

I just pulled up a picture; it is.

(Slash's collection at some point)...
And... I want that one, that one... J/k... but...
That black SG is cool and I've heard that 12 string acoustic "Is that what it is?" 12 string acoustic Guild...

Reason why I love Guild so much is because I've played on a high end 12 string Guild in Tin Pan Alley once, was t least £6, 000.00 or maybe even more, I forget, but it was really nice and really expensive, a white one, but... it was no double neck... 

That red Guild Crossroads 12 string/electric and.... That Gibson SG 1st string; look way fun.

downbytheriver

Many years ago I was working on a tour and got to be pretty friendly with the guitarist in the support band. He was a phenomenal country player and very willing to talk Guitars for hours. 

At at the time I owned a Fender Custom Shop twin neck (the Sea Foam Green one pictured in the Ultimate Guitar book) which prompted a discussion in which we agreed that manufacturers were going about this entirely the wrong way - the 6 string neck should be on top.... 

Fast forward many years and my old friend had got a new gig.... and a new Guitar... 

https://goo.gl/images/AVjS3o

Mr Steuart Smith with his twin neck Silhouette - this time the right way up. Oh and some other bloke, who happens to be one of my all time heroes... 

dogload

Back in the 80's I had a Hondo Longhorn 6-string. They were also doing twin-necks which I rather lusted after (and wouldn't mind today, tbh). Not a very good picture I'm afraid but you get the idea.

bacchanalian

Any advance on two twin necks?

Sassafras

I don't think 'cool' is an attribute of twin-neck guitars.
More like a double headed albatross around your neck.

LesbianWithAGun

Sassafras said:

I don't think 'cool' is an attribute of twin-neck guitars.
More like a double headed albatross around your neck.

This Guild

Sounds amazing/looks fun/looks cool. IMO.

Nice sounding guitar, and I do like fancy high end Guilds, if I'm honest (the 12 stringed acoustic single necked guitar I've played on in Denmark Street - for lack of better description of the guitar) was nice, out of my budget, but way nice.
I figure a nice double neck from Guild would be as nice as the ones I've seen and heard Slash playing on YouTube and that making of VHS I had...
Especially that red 12 string Guild Crossroads... Sounds way nice.

SimpleSimon

Save yourself a fortune and get the Epiphone version - now out of production, They can be had for around £450 second hand. Seriously a lot of fun and definitely in the Gibson ball park for a lot less. You can always upgrade the pups and tuners as you go.EDIT: not that they really need replacing.

LesbianWithAGun

SimpleSimon said:

Save yourself a fortune and get the Epiphone version - now out of production, They can be had for around £450 second hand. Seriously a lot of fun and definitely in the Gibson ball park for a lot less. You can always upgrade the pups and tuners as you go.EDIT: not that they really need replacing.

You don't know me at all.

I'm all about paying that premium for high end quality when it comes to guitar 'now'.

blobb

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4468/38213050931_0b5da0d323_c.jpg

BloodEagle

LesbianWithAGun said:

SimpleSimon said:

Save yourself a fortune and get the Epiphone version - now out of production, They can be had for around £450 second hand. Seriously a lot of fun and definitely in the Gibson ball park for a lot less. You can always upgrade the pups and tuners as you go.EDIT: not that they really need replacing.

You don't know me at all.

I'm all about paying that premium for high end quality when it comes to guitar 'now'.

Eh? You said in your previous post that high end Guilds were out of your budget. Im deeply confused

LesbianWithAGun

BloodEagle said:

LesbianWithAGun said:

SimpleSimon said:

Save yourself a fortune and get the Epiphone version - now out of production, They can be had for around £450 second hand. Seriously a lot of fun and definitely in the Gibson ball park for a lot less. You can always upgrade the pups and tuners as you go.EDIT: not that they really need replacing.

You don't know me at all.

I'm all about paying that premium for high end quality when it comes to guitar 'now'.

Eh? You said in your previous post that high end Guilds were out of your budget. Im deeply confused

This was years ago when I got to play on one, and remembered I liked it, now, it's probably in budget (IDK without a price) - but back then, when I got to play, it was out of my budget.

tampaxboo

i'm afraid i am not a fan. they have always seems a bit pretentious and spinal tap to me.

swapping between a bass and guitar for different songs seems to get good results. nick zinner does it a lot and he's a hero of mine. the results are great. and keeping them apart seems to keeps things tight and clean.

but there often seems to be a whiff of trying too hard when guitarists go double-neck. it can make them appear a bit too desperate to make a show of their virtuosity and results can be noodley. maybe because they feel that as they are wearing it they might as well use all the options. just my impression from my experience of seeing them in live situations. they seem to invite a proggy playing style, in the fussy cluttered sense.

there may be musicians out there that don't make them sound OTT but i only know the pretentious seeming sounding ones.

underdog

tampaxboo said:

i'm afraid i am not a fan. they have always seems a bit pretentious and spinal tap to me.

swapping between a bass and guitar for different songs seems to get good results. nick zinner does it a lot and he's a hero of mine. the results are great. and keeping them apart seems to keeps things tight and clean.

but there often seems to be a whiff of trying too hard when guitarists go double-neck. it can make them appear a bit too desperate to make a show of their virtuosity and results can be noodley. maybe because they feel that as they are wearing it they might as well use all the options. just my impression from my experience of seeing them in live situations. they seem to invite a proggy playing style, in the fussy cluttered sense.

there may be musicians out there that don't make them sound OTT but i only know the pretentious seeming sounding ones.

It's a 12 string 6 string double neck I think he's interested in. Makes sense for quite a lot of songs.

SimpleSimon

LesbianWithAGun said:

SimpleSimon said:

Save yourself a fortune and get the Epiphone version - now out of production, They can be had for around £450 second hand. Seriously a lot of fun and definitely in the Gibson ball park for a lot less. You can always upgrade the pups and tuners as you go.EDIT: not that they really need replacing.

You don't know me at all.

I'm all about paying that premium for high end quality when it comes to guitar 'now'.

Its your money fella, i personally just dont see the point in shelling out £3k for a Gibson you 'might' play for two or three songs but hey thats just me. Performance doesnt equate with cost these days........