Brooks Double Neck Thunderbird

[Basvarken]

tried to post a new topic a few times. But it failed...
Wonder what's wrong?

[Basvarken]

While the Outpost was down I completed the build of yet another crazy bass:

The Brooks DDB (DoubleDuaneBird).
A double-neck Thunderbird with a traditional Thunderbird 4-string neck. And a 30 1/2" scale 12-string bass neck.

I can finally share another completed build with you guys.
The idea had been brewing for a while but the actual build started out early july 2024.

Specifications:
- Korina body
- Korina 12-string neck 30 1/2" scale
- Korina 4-string neck 34" scale
- Candy Apple Red Nitrocellulose finish
- Ebony fretboards
- Circle position dots
- Jumbo frets
- Buffalo horn nuts
- Three ply (vintage) white/black/white pickguard
- Custom made ETS twelve string brass bridge set. Chrome
- Wide travel Thunderbrid style bridge. Chrome
- Spokewheel double action trussrods
- Carbon reinforcement strip in 12-string neck
- Gemini Dominator pickup for 4-string
- Gemini Devastator pickup for 12-string
- Bourns pots (volume/tone volume/tone)
- Mullard capacitors
- Toggle switch to choose 12- or 4-string
- Gotoh GB 350 lightweight bass tuners
- Gotoh ST-31 Stealth tuners
- 1 x Pure Tone Multi Contact jack output
- d'Addario custom set strings (12 string)
- Rotosound RB 50 (4 string)
- Weight: 7.9 kg










Yes, it's heavy.
And no it doesn't dive.

[godofthunder]

Thanks for posting Rob and welcome back! As always your work is amazing! A very well laid out a designed double neck, someone is going to be very happy.

[Son of Dave W]

That's gorgeous and sounds great.

[Son of Dave W]

tried to post a new topic a few times. But it failed...
Wonder what's wrong?

Well, it required pretty major surgery to get the site back up and running, so there may be a few bugs that pop up.  I ran all the maintenance that I could figure out once I completed the pretty significant forum upgrade, and didn't get any fails/errors, but I will keep an eye on the error logs when I have spare time (which is not much).

[Basvarken]

Thank you Keith.
It must have had something to do with text formatting that (unintentionally) came along with the specifications that I copy/pasted from a post on a different forum.

[gearHed289]

That's a wild one! Sounds great, looks great, well balanced. 

[Grog]

Wow Rob!! That looks awesome as always!!

[BTL]

That looks amazing, congratulations! 

[Basvarken]

Thank you guys.
Here's a few more pics:

[Basvarken]

One month ago the bass was Bass of the week @ NoTreble.

https://www.notreble.com/buzz/2024/10/07/bass-of-the-week-brooks-duane-double-bird/

[wellREDman]

That is one of the most beautiful builds I have ever seen