Crazy!

[tim_ado]

this is crazy

http://www.microphoneheaven.com/guitarbass/

anyone seen it

new beining to double necks??

[biliousfrog]

hardly a radical new concept just that most people would make something a little more polished than a guitar fingerboard & bass fingerboard stuck together on a wide neck. The reason why nobody's done it that way before is because it looks sloppy & doesn't seem very practical.

Maybe I should make my bass, guitar, mandolin, banjo hybrid...yeah, that would show him!

[davee5]

Meh, not into it. Like to woods, looks well built, but gimmicky. I'd much prefer to play a Charlie-Hunter style 8-string novax, if i had the skills or inclination.

[Ben]

Looks well made and all, but its damn ugly and looks impractical

[ihocky2]

I like everything but the idea. You would need 8" fingers just to be able to play the thing comfortably. I think you could get close to the same result with an 8 string baritone tuned down. I don't know a lot about bass, so if I am wrong in that respect please forgive me. Making it a standard double neck would be more usefull. Still have both bass and guitar, but you can actually reach all of the strings at all of the frets. The high frets on the lowest string have to be darned near impossible to play. But it does make a nice conversation piece if you are budding luthier, just to show what you can do.

[ihocky2]

I like everything but the idea. You would need 8" fingers just to be able to play the thing comfortably. I think you could get close to the same result with an 8 string baritone tuned down. I don't know a lot about bass, so if I am wrong in that respect please forgive me. Making it a standard double neck would be more usefull. Still have both bass and guitar, but you can actually reach all of the strings at all of the frets. The high frets on the lowest string have to be darned near impossible to play. But it does make a nice conversation piece if you are budding luthier, just to show what you can do.

[Jon]

An instrument hating bandwagon? Count me in!

About the size of a 6-7 string bass, no where near impossible to play. However, it is a custom design which is one of those that will seem impractical to most.

[slash//]

I've seen this on a different site, it's awesome. I love the shape of the body, I'm still trying to get used to the neck arrangements though

[Geo]

I think it's cool. I like how the fingerboards "rub" each other. I wouldn't try to play it... and the control layout also seems complicated. But it's pretty sweet.

[hooglebug]

its not exactly unique either. andy manson has made lot of guitars similar to this

link to andy manson site

[tim_ado]

yeah im not saying its practical.....i mean a 14 fret bass.......but u have to admit it wows u when u see it

its pretty well made

[Strebs]

My first reaction was to dislike the thing because I could not imagine that it was actually a playable instrument.

But it didn't take long for me to respect/admire it on several counts.

1. The workmanship, at least from what I can tell in the pictures, appears to be good.

2. The instrument was made to satisfy ONE player's wants/needs. That player is satisfied.

3. All in all an interesting concept. It's pushing the envelope.

For me, personally, I like the spirit in which the thing was conceived and built. It's a 1-unit production, and there is at least 1 person who thinks it's a good axe.

So, good on them! The bottom line is to make instruments that somebody will like and enjoy playing which are capable of being used to create a musical sound.

I'd like to see more whacky stuff like this. The solidbody electric guitar has been essentially unchanged for going on 60 years, now. It's good to see some new blood in the family.

Just my two cents.

[P90]

I applaud the creative thinking behind this, but how does one actually use such a guitar-bass in a musical context?

The closest I can think of is Mike Rutherford (Genesis) and Geddy Lee (Rush) who used a dbl-neck guitar/bass, and they tended to use bass pedals when they were using the guitar side (because their prmiary function in their respective bands is as the bassist)

Edited April 25, 2007 by P90

[j. pierce]

Streb's points are good.

Seems odd to me that each "neck" has it's own radius. Seems like it'd be easier to play if with one radius across the whole shebang.

14 fret-bass neck seems like a let down, although with the guitar body in the way, playing any higher wouldn't work, and with the bass neck on the bottom (to be able to fret higher) chords on the guitart neck would be a pain the arse, as he mentions.

Seems like some cool things could be done with it, but it's not how I'd want to integrate the two instruments.

Reminds me of a Chapman Stick in some ways - I think something somewhere inbetween this (which seems more conducive to "traditional" playing than the chapman's tapping approach) and the Chapman's more refined (they've been making the things since the late 70's, haven't they?) approach to a wide, guitar/bass neck would be ideal.

Me, I think some cool things could be done on the thing, but I'm certainly not a restrained enough player to play on one neck without bashing half the open strings on the the other whilst I play!