Twin Neck Wal - 2x5 Fretted & Fretless

[PaulThePlug]

Just spotted on Gumtree... Twin Neck Wal... 5 Fretted / 5 Fretless... Take 2 Basses in to the Show(er)...

£7 Large : https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/wal-twin-neck-custom-bass/1393232273

Edited December 28, 2020 by PaulThePlug

[ezbass]

Wowsers! Hopefully comes with osteopath recommendations, but still 😮

[4000]

Well it says it’s chambered so that should bring it down to less than a ton. 😉

[Shaggy]

An amazing beastie  - surprised there’s only one pickup per “bass” though.

Should get snapped up fast, even at £7K

[Lfalex v1.1]

I suppose its cheaper than having a separate 5 and fretless 5 Wal.

But that's all.

Ultimately a bit pointless. 

[Guest]

Recently youtube insisted I watch a video of a guitar that was fretted up to the 10th or 11th fret and fretless there after.

And I wondered if something similar would be more useful to bassists?

Looking at this, um, aggrandisement, I feel my thought to be, at least, not the worst idea going.

[Shaggy]

1 hour ago, Ricky Rioli said:

Recently youtube insisted I watch a video of a guitar that was fretted up to the 10th or 11th fret and fretless there after.

And I wondered if something similar would be more useful to bassists?

Looking at this, um, aggrandisement, I feel my thought to be, at least, not the worst idea going.

Recent thread on this: 

 

[4000]

4 hours ago, Shaggy said:

An amazing beastie  - surprised there’s only one pickup per “bass” though.

Should get snapped up fast, even at £7K

Probably inspired by Jonas Hellborg’s twin neck Wal, which also had a single pickup per bass.

 

 

[TrevorR]

10 hours ago, Shaggy said:

An amazing beastie  - surprised there’s only one pickup per “bass” though.

Should get snapped up fast, even at £7K

Standard for all Wal double necks, and as @4000 said, inspired by Hellborg’s one (the original Wal double).

[itu]

If it was constructed like a Gretsch Bikini, that would be very, very tempting.

[Chris2112]

14 hours ago, Shaggy said:

An amazing beastie  - surprised there’s only one pickup per “bass” though.

Should get snapped up fast, even at £7K

When the pickup is next to the bridge, that's all you need. 

This is perfect for any Jonas Hellborg fan with a friendly chiropractor. 

[4000]

11 hours ago, Chris2112 said:

When the pickup is next to the bridge, that's all you need. 

 

Not for me it isn’t. Not a big fan of the ‘bridge pickup only’ sound. 

[508pir]

Now the proud owner of this beauty. It sounds terrific even though it only has one pick up. Not for the faint hearted gigging wise.

[Hellzero]

Out of curiosity, how much does it weight ?

 

Superb looking Wal, that said.

[binky_bass]

I'd be so tempted to hire some kind of engineer to cut it down the middle and work in a seamless connection so you can 'click' them together as a double neck, or play them individually. Maybe even talk to Wal about building two additional pieces with the same connection so they look like 'normal' basses when not 'clicked' together as a double neck. I imagine the cost of such a procedure would be astronomical! 

[Happy Jack]

7 minutes ago, binky_bass said:

I'd be so tempted to hire some kind of engineer to cut it down the middle and work in a seamless connection so you can 'click' them together as a double neck, or play them individually. 

 

I'd be more inclined to make a Junior Brown style stand ...

 

 

[Hellzero]

15 minutes ago, binky_bass said:

I'd be so tempted to hire some kind of engineer to cut it down the middle and work in a seamless connection so you can 'click' them together as a double neck, or play them individually. Maybe even talk to Wal about building two additional pieces with the same connection so they look like 'normal' basses when not 'clicked' together as a double neck. I imagine the cost of such a procedure would be astronomical! 

This is what got Christophe LEDUC in the Guinness book, the separable bass that allows you to have one double neck bass or two single basses :

 

 

 

http://leduc.fr/index.php/basses/aliens

[BigRedX]

1 minute ago, Hellzero said:

This is what got Christophe LEDUC in the Guinness book, the separable bass that allows you to have one double neck bass or two single basses :

 

 

 

http://leduc.fr/index.php/basses/aliens

 

Surely the Shergold version of that idea (as used by Mike Rutherford) pre-dates this by several decades?

[binky_bass]

24 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

This is what got Christophe LEDUC in the Guinness book, the separable bass that allows you to have one double neck bass or two single basses :

 

 

 

http://leduc.fr/index.php/basses/aliens

That is exactly what I'd want to do to the Wal... might be 'a sin' but it'd make it such a truly usable instrument.

[Hellzero]

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

 

Surely the Shergold version of that idea (as used by Mike Rutherford) pre-dates this by several decades?

Not several decades, but exactly one.

[velvetkevorkian]

6 hours ago, binky_bass said:

That is exactly what I'd want to do to the Wal... might be 'a sin' but it'd make it such a truly usable instrument.

*two instruments

[itu]

Leduc pretty much copied that 1961 Gretsch idea. OK, Bikini was a g-word + bass double neck.

There are only few pictures in the web, as only around 50 instruments were made.

[NikNik]

On 08/12/2021 at 09:35, Happy Jack said:

 

I'd be more inclined to make a Junior Brown style stand ...

 

 

I absolutely love Junior Brown!!

[RhysP]

I had the chance to buy a used twin neck Wal in the late 80's for £395.00... 

[Hellzero]

2 hours ago, RhysP said:

I had the chance to buy a used twin neck Wal in the late 80's for £395.00... 

Nobody wanted them anymore in the late 80's and 90's. I sold mine for peanuts at the time too.