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I’ve decided I need a double-neck, with a 12-string on top, and a fretless bass below.
I've been getting into offset Fenders lately so, style-wise, I was thinking of something based on an electric XII on top, and a Jazz below.
I want to go the partscaster route, not getting a custom build, or making it completely from scratch. So for this I need some help/advice from the experts on here.
I wondered about just chopping and gluing a couple of Squiers together. Sadly they haven’t made a Squier XII yet, so it’d have to be a jazz bass and either a jazzmaster or jaguar on top, with a replacement 12-string neck from somewhere. I thought that would have to be a custom-built neck, but I read somewhere about Warmoth doing a XII-style neck. Is there any hope that would fit a Squier body?
But I also don’t want the instrument to be too heavy, so I wondered about going for something semi-hollow instead. I could start with a jaguar thinline, but I don't know of a suitable semi-hollow bass. And even if I could find two suitable semi-hollow donor bodies, would it even be possible to glue them together, i.e., would I need some trickery to make the joint strong enough to hold the bass on?
Or would I be able to (get someone to) rout out the back of two Squier solidbodies, in order to make them semi-hollow?
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go semi hollow and make the body yourself or get it made. a bit more time and money but it will work a lot better than sticking too bodies together and having to deal with the weight
it may seem simpler to stick two existing guitars together, and it will work, but it won't be any less work
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I chopped a piece off each body, biscuit and glue joined them together and reprofile the new double body to look right. Simple job and I have poor woodworking skills.
I sold the strat style years ago and I'm about to start a refinish on the ibanez - I'll post pics of the process when I decide what I want it to look like.- thinking about a jooky style fabric and gold finish
I'd go for it - if you use a couple of squiers, with careful shopping you could do it fairly cheaply as an experiment - I'd be interested to see how you get on!
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