Brooks Thread

[godofthunder]

   Beautiful work as always Rob!

[Basvarken]

About last night:
The other day I was approached by Jimi Crutchley (Quireboys) regarding the Brooks Fenderbird I had built.
He is on a world tour as tour manager with Glenn Hughes. And yesterday the caravan visited De Boerderij in Zoetermeer for Glenn's Deep Purple show. Which is only an hours drive from where I live.
Jimi invited me to the soundcheck to put the Brooks Fenderbird through its paces, over Glenn's bass system.

Jimi turns out to be a huge John Entwistle fanatic. And for years he had been looking for a good Fenderbird like the one Peter Cook built for John Entwistle. He had previously bought one from another builder, but that one was very disappointing.
Jimi is very happy that he has finally found a good Fenderbird!

[gearHed289]

That's great. Matches the amps! 

[BTL]

What a great story, congratulations!

[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/