I started work on a double neck guitar

[Blazer]

When you work as much with guitars as I do, you're bound to end up with a pile of spare parts consisting of bodies, necks, tuners, bridges and pickups.

Today I decided to thin that pile out a bit and make something from all I had laying around.
*I had two halves of a bass body that only missed a mid section to make it a complete body.
*I had a body blank that was too narrow to make a full body from, so I had something to make the mid section from.
*I had two Fender Strat copy necks, one of them being a 3/4 scale.

So I decided to combine them all and this is the result.



When I took these pictures, the whole thing wasn't even glued together, so I have a lot of work ahead of me but I am already enjoying it.

[shobet]

Good luck with it!

[Blazer]

Some more pictures of my guitar coming together.


Readying the body parts to be glued together.


Here I am applying the glue.


All clamped up and drying.

[Mike]

That's gonna look great! Keep up the good work!

[Blazer]

okay then here's the building update.


The body on the routing template


Routing the upper neck pocket


Checking to see if I didn't rout the pocket too deep.


Readying the body for the rout of the neck pocket of the lower neck.

[Blazer]

Part two



And I'm routing the pocket


Routing the neck pickup cavity of the lower neck


And the one from the upper neck


And routing the bridge pickup from the upper neck

[Blazer]

Part three


Carving the midsection of the body



The result of a day of very hard work


The guitar at home with the necks in the pockets and the pickup of the lower neck in place.

[CharvelRocker]

Thats gonna be awesome when its finished!

[LEOKV2]

What kind of glue did you use for joining the body pieces?

Is that the usual way for doing that?

[Blazer]

What kind of glue did you use for joining the body pieces?

Is that the usual way for doing that?

I used Bison Construction Tix which is a glue made for the building of wooden houses.

As you can see on the label, it's a polyurethane based glue and it's rediculously strong.

As for my clamping method, due to the wideness of this body I had no other option but to do it this way.

[Mike]

I hope you're gonna change the head colors to match.

[kelly user]

judging by your pics, i amazed by you talent by the way, you do not have plans for upper fret access. was this intentional, or it happened because the shape of the body?

[Super_shredder]

looking good man cant wait to see the finished results!

to kelly user : maybe he just has very very big hands

[Blazer]

Today I applied the sealing coat of poly and it revealed how cool this guitar looks when finished in good ol' fashioned Natural. It has a really warm amber-like color (Pictures will come later)

As for the reaching of the lowest frets, no problem, the body has front scallops and the neck heels are sculpted so there's nothing really bothering about soloing up high.

[nor]

Looks cool.