reverb.com/item/28494311-2019-gibson-custom-shop-slash-signature-1966-eds-1275-double-neck-aged-signed?_aid=growsumo&gs_partner=Trogly I have a newfound respect for these crazy Double Necks. They are a lot of fun to play and I highly suggest you try one out. While 13k isn't affordable for most people, there are less expensive Epiphone versions and even most used (non-signature) ones can be had for around 3-4k. You can't help but smile playing one of these behemoths! eBay: rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dp2380057.m570.l1313.TR10.TRC2.A0.H0.Xgibson.TRS2%26_nkw%3DEDS-1275%2Bslash%26_sacat%3D0&campid=5338292223&toolid=20008 Amazon: www.amazon.com/s/ref=as_li_ss_tl?k=guitar+strings&ref=nb_sb_noss_1&linkCode=sl2&tag=trogly-20&linkId=b0bba4061d2613a6aa156768416f638b&language=en_US Episode Guide: 0:00 - Intro 0:40 - Slash EDS-1275 1:08 - Slash's History of Double Necks 2:15 - What's a Double Neck? 3:20 - Double Neck History 5:04 - What's it Like to Play One? 7:25 - The Controls 10:05 - Inside Look / Specs 19:53 - Clean Demos 21:27 - Dirty Demo (Charlie) 24:17 - Final Thoughts 26:07 - Condition 28:35 - Blacklight Test 29:20 - Case + Candy Mentioned Videos/Websites: Knocking on Heaven's Door Live: ruclips.net/video/2-T2v9kDCBI/видео.html Stairway Live: ruclips.net/video/CBk-iRihSUg/видео.html EMS-1235 GuitarPoint: ruclips.net/video/G407m2Wd7Wo/видео.html EBS-1250 Fretted Americana: ruclips.net/video/tBXA9I4PWyE/видео.html Double Neck Guitars Website Erik Ernest: www.abalonevintage.com/gibson_double_neck_guitars_1958_eds1275_double_twelve_1959_ems1235_double_mandolin_doubleneck_hollowbody_sg.htm
Hey man I jus found a crazy guitar on reverb I font think u even had one on the channel .its a gibson nighthawk lespual type shaped guitar never heard of it
My hangup about "expensive" new guitars is that my perception is that the markup is astronomical. Anything over $3000 should come with an itemized build sheet like most custom hot rod shops provide with a car or bike.
true i guy like me wound't buy that for more than 100$. regardless how who owned it and it's age. looks like something that is ready to be used as firewood to me.
Only the E, A, D and G string pairs are tuned to octaves. The B and high E string pairs are tuned in unison. One of the reasons getting an authentic 12 string sound from a pedal is difficult.
Fun fact: Ace Frehley recorded a song (I wanna say it was Fractured Mirror) on his ‘78 solo album by doing the sympathetic vibration thing. He said that in his book
Yep, "Fractured Mirror". He had a solidbody EMS-1235 (8 string mandolin/6 string guitar). It was those mandolin strings droning through a cranked Marshall.
I must say, the attention to detail as far as the aging job goes is incredible. But setup and further QC is just inexcusable. I’d price this at 4-5 grand at BEST. Gibsons don’t tend to have the most bang for your buck, but this is just ridiculous. however, thank you trogly for another awesome in-depth video. love your content man!!
Pretty hilarious to see pathetic projection like this. How unhappy do you have to be with your life to obsess over how successful people spend their money? Shit on Gibson all you want, but holding a grudge and making comments like this towards people for having wealth is beyond unhinged.
In 2021, I bought one for $500. Not the slash version but still a Gibson. The guy who sold it to me didn't know what it is worth, nor did he care. He just wanted to get rid of it. Overall this guitar is absolutely amazing and plan to get split coils for it.
I can't believe you actually got one. Cool! I first laid my hands on an EDS-1275 long ago when I was in my teens. I immediately fell in love with that guitar and will never forget the experience.
It's quite amazing that 2 of the best songs ever written - Hotel California & Stairway to Heaven are both played with a double neck Gibson. November Rain is likewise an Epic arrangement, but not quite up their with the other two. Honorable mention to John McLaughlin as well :)
Resistance drops when pickups (or Humbucker coils) coils are wired in parallel (plus to plus, minus to minus, the only way a toggle 3 way works), as opposed to going up when in series (plus to minus, like the coils on a humbucker are normally). It's just like speakers.
"oh no there is a crack under the pickguard. unacceptable for a 13k guitar! but the headstock is nicely beat up, nice job, custom shop guys!" I am not mocking Trogly, I get what he is saying 100%. i am mocking the world we are living in...
I really appreciate that you give your perspective as a person who’s never really hold one of these guitars and share your genuine expressions! It’s something all of us can resonate with :) cheers!
Major respect for doing that. Putting down 13k just to review this guitar is a big commitment. Cheers. Love your work. I still would like to see an original older one from the 70s or 80s
The things on his hat is actually a Concho belt. Usually when you think of Concho belt you think of Slash's hat, SRV hat and he also wore Concho belts and Jim Morrison.
Coolest bass I ever played was hand crafted by Tobias in the 70's. Double neck, fretless and fretted. $15k asking price so it was a bit out of my fresh from bootcamp price range.
The price! The look! The size! Crazy, everything about this guitar is insane! Brilliant!!!!! Really really niche product, hence the very limited run, thanks for showing us this guitar in depth, excellent video! Not for me, but that pelham blue SG special you reviewed recently, droooooooooollllllll
I have the epiphone version of the 1275 with set necks and it is HEAVY. Best plywood body as well but still sounds reasonable and was slightly more affordable. However if anyone is tempted by the cheapo epi version, DO change the switches as they all seem to be pretty unreliable on all the epis I've bought.
Wow 12 minutes in and I just realized this is a new guitar! I really thought this was a vintage guitar. They are amazing at aging these things. Incredible
Isn't that crack something one could consider as part of the ageing thing? TBH I don't really get the whole relic concept, I would rather play a brand new guitar and if it ends up looking like that, it just means it was so good it got used a lot.
Yeah...I have a love/hate relationship with relic guitars,lol.. I made a "relic" out of an old Squier strat,just for the art aspect of it..it was fun to do...but would I buy one ..no,I wouldn't!
I would have liked to hear the 12-string side played through the cranked amp. You can get some unique lead sounds with a 12-string. By the way, I think the silver embellishments on the strap are called "conchos".
Definitely interesting beast! Looks and sounds awesome too. Good thing you go in-depth with your purchases and catch the problems it has, which are definitely unacceptable in an instrument of such regard, and price tag. Thanks for sharing! Btw, your content is so good.
I agree with Liam, very fond of my BC Rich Bich 6/12. Looks crazy 🍌🍌s in a great way but what a sweet axe! If you're going overboard for a doubleneck, might as well take the Bich with ya.
Very interesting. The sympathetic output from the side of the guitar not being played does add evidence to the whole tone-wood debate. What I've read is that Vintage pickups were many times microphonic in nature. The belief is that the microphonics of the pickup(s) actually add to the overall tone of a vintage instrument. If the wood does indeed vibrate and add to the overall sound (and this would be expected as certain woods are resonate in nature) then the microphonic pickups would reproduce these sounds/harmonics and include these additional sounds/tones/harmonics and frequencies into the guitar's pickups output. So even though some have argued that tone-wood is a myth we here have clear evidence that the wood is resonating and inducing signal output in the other pickups. As I stated earlier, very, very interesting. So in theory as long as you have a guitar with a resonate piece of wood and slightly microphonic pickups you should have a pretty good sounding instrument. This whole thing kind of proves out why my custom built R9 sounds so good with un-potted Burstbucker #1 and #2 pickups as those un-potted pickups are indeed microphonic.
My good buddy who I played in a band with while attending college had one of these (I believe manufactured at some point in the '70s - he owned it from the '90s until some point in the 2000s, good condition, although the case smelled no matter what was done to it!), and I ended up spending quite a bit of time with it (as he absolutely hated stringing his many guitars as is, so suffice to say, he hated the process on this guitar 3 times as much!). Playing on the "off" neck while the "on" neck sympathetically resonates is definitely a fun, unique sound. I last had custody of it sometime around '04-'05, and your description of the neck profile, the overall feel brings back memories for me - I think you pretty much nailed it. I guarantee he paid a LOT less than $13K, for his (waiting for him to text me back what he paid back then).
Yeah. You can get a custom shop "standard" model (i.e., not some weird Rick Nielsen quintuple neck) from pretty much any manufacturer for less than $5k. Anything more than that is paying for stuff other than materials and craftsmanship. You're paying for a name, some collector value, or you're buying a display piece. I've even played with Kiesel's custom builder and can't even break $5k on a ridiculous all-exotic wood multiscale 8 string.
Get your money back now!! Just saw a brand new white double neck leave Sarasota FL Guitar Center that blows this crap away! You exposed so many flaws in this I’m pissed off at Gibson for ripping people off. Who was that jamming at the end? Thank you for the hard work YOU put into this for us!!
I played one years ago. Had no idea what I was doing lol. Seems like s badass guitar. I would expect nothing less than them sending you a replacement. Great work as always Mr, Austin!
The signal is quieter in the middle because the pickups connect in parallel. Same reason the middle position on on a two-pickup guitar gives a smaller signal than either pickup individually, or why a humbucker gives a smaller signal with its coils connected parallel vs. series. I made a 6-over-6 doubleneck so I could switch between open E and standard EADGBE tuning, and ended up wiring the two sets of pickups in series to avert the volume loss when both are on. I also had to put a capacitor in series to reduce loss of treble, but it seems to work. Not as well as an active buffer and mixing circuit would, but the control cavity of this guitar is already too crowded without a preamp!
I hope the right people at Gibson see this video and work to stop the bad quality control. My guess is someone covered their tracks with the mistake under the pick guard for fear of losing their job. If Gibson cannot police quality control across such a high profile and extravagant run of only 125 guitars, they will forever remain known as a company that produces SOME great guitars amongst A LOT of rough. Many of us love good Gibson guitars but we are conflicted when we see such lack of QC. Great demo thank you, but still feeling flat about Gibson as a guitar brand. 🙁
this was such a kick ass video, you are right I've never seen anyone other then a rock star playing one and seeing someone else play one I've come to the conclusion that double necks are bad ass
Thanks for Taking the time to review this Guitar really enjoyed this video I’m a massive slash fan never gonna be able to afford this guitar.i would definitely buy one if I had a spare thirteen Thousand .Awesome work 🤘🤘🤘
Angel Diaz I review it for you, it's not that great. Guitar players develop weird quirks and I'm not sure really how true it is to Stevie. He used bass frets for some reason.
fun fact Adam Day slash guitar tech said in the premier guitar rig rundown " I think its a 88 or 89" but his EDS 1275 is dated as a 66' witch makes it even rarer!
Drop in output in middle ( both ) neck selector position is because you now have four 8K ohm pickups in parallel, 8k \ 4 = 2k , or in other words you have two guitars plugged in but you're playing only one.
I told you to get AN EDS-1275 not THIS EDS-1275. Cheaper, easier to unload, probably better made because the fixtures are in use. I'm griping, but glad you documented this anyway.
I have a '72 ES-335 with nary a check mark on it. It would pain me deeply to see my Es-335 looking like that. I did have a '63 SG that was full of checking when I bought it in '70. But the checking was mostly across the body and NOT lengthwise. Here in Minnesnowta the biggest reason for checking is not letting your guitar warm up slowly before opening the case after it's been sitting inside your car in subzero weather.
Steve Clark of Def Leppard used TWO of these for about 5-6 songs, one of them being "Foolin", during their 1988 stadium tour.....one was white, one was red....awesome!
This was quite a few years ago, but at Guitar Center near Nashville I had the honor of handling and playing a double neck. I clung to that thing like a priceless egg and was so paranoid. They are pretty unweildly at first, but after a few minutes it was unbelivability fun.
Slash did an interview with Guitarist magazine showing off his collection back in 98 if I remember rightly. He actually owns a number of double neck guitars one of which was a Guild in trans green one neck was acoustic the other was electric. I think he also had one Gibson in red as well.
It's disappointing the 55 point inspection didn't catch that truss rod issue, the pick guard screw I could live with. Maybe they just thought most of them would be a wall hanger decoration, but that's no excuse. I still don't get the relic guitars, kind of like buying a new truck and having them break out the windows before you drive it, but that's just my opinion. Great review as always, Thank You.
Allen Woody of the Allman Brothers Band/Gov't Mule had double neck Gibson with bass and mandolin necks on it. I saw him play several times (RIP Allen Woody)
Actually Trog, a good buddy of mine has checking on a Les Paul like this, you definitely feel it, I think it depends on whether or not the cracking has reached on through to the clear coat
C'MON DUDE!!! Ace Frehley uses a sun-burst one for 'Rock Bottom' & he and Paul Stanley play the same one in the 'Hard Luck Woman' video!! How could you leave those pictures out of your video brother??
Trogly, your show is great, thank you! The sympathetic vibration you pointed out in this video is intriguing. I’d love to mess with that and the volume / tone combinations. You are the Dwight Schrute of Gibson knowledge (dumb joke, no disrespect, you kind of look like him). Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I’d like to know, where did you learn your luthier skills? That may be a be a cool video.
In my band the other guys have a couple of these. The white one and two red ones. Really cool and not as expensive as this Signature ones. You get similar results. I guess the neck pickup on these has a higher output because Slash mostly does his melodic solos there. I've tried the Epiphone version and is pretty close, so, guys, don't break the bank unless you're a fan or a collector. I even went cheaper to get into the double neck game with a gorgeous golden Danelectro double neck. I use it a lot because I get most arpeggio parts anyway. So it's the type of guitar you get as soon as you need it. ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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I have a newfound respect for these crazy Double Necks. They are a lot of fun to play and I highly suggest you try one out. While 13k isn't affordable for most people, there are less expensive Epiphone versions and even most used (non-signature) ones can be had for around 3-4k. You can't help but smile playing one of these behemoths!
eBay: rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dp2380057.m570.l1313.TR10.TRC2.A0.H0.Xgibson.TRS2%26_nkw%3DEDS-1275%2Bslash%26_sacat%3D0&campid=5338292223&toolid=20008
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Episode Guide:
0:00 - Intro
0:40 - Slash EDS-1275
1:08 - Slash's History of Double Necks
2:15 - What's a Double Neck?
3:20 - Double Neck History
5:04 - What's it Like to Play One?
7:25 - The Controls
10:05 - Inside Look / Specs
19:53 - Clean Demos
21:27 - Dirty Demo (Charlie)
24:17 - Final Thoughts
26:07 - Condition
28:35 - Blacklight Test
29:20 - Case + Candy
Mentioned Videos/Websites:
Knocking on Heaven's Door Live: ruclips.net/video/2-T2v9kDCBI/видео.html
Stairway Live: ruclips.net/video/CBk-iRihSUg/видео.html
EMS-1235 GuitarPoint: ruclips.net/video/G407m2Wd7Wo/видео.html
EBS-1250 Fretted Americana: ruclips.net/video/tBXA9I4PWyE/видео.html
Double Neck Guitars Website Erik Ernest: www.abalonevintage.com/gibson_double_neck_guitars_1958_eds1275_double_twelve_1959_ems1235_double_mandolin_doubleneck_hollowbody_sg.htm
It wasn't originally black. His tech painted it black for him.
Now I want to buy one
@5:23 You *know* it's something *beyond* special when you don't merely 'hold' it........you friggiin' *WIELD* it!!
You sir, are worthy of a codpiece.
there are also ones on harley benton for under 800$
Hey man I jus found a crazy guitar on reverb I font think u even had one on the channel .its a gibson nighthawk lespual type shaped guitar never heard of it
That relic’ing on the back kinda looks like someone dropped their nachos on the movie theater floor
Or yarked their lunch onto it...
STEAMY
IT WAS USED IN A CHEAP PORNO...
My father has that Elvis Bass/Guitar. It's massive I can't imagine ever using it but it's cool having it around
I love Gibson and always will but for 13k that thing better be absolutely perfect! Anything less is unacceptable!
For 13 grand it better come with a car
Maybe that crack was part of the aging
@@petergriffin383 Well said.
that's what i was thinking. there's nothing that still looks good on there and lets not talk about the atrocious finish lol
My hangup about "expensive" new guitars is that my perception is that the markup is astronomical. Anything over $3000 should come with an itemized build sheet like most custom hot rod shops provide with a car or bike.
"these guys are for collectors"...debt collectors LMAO
Lol! Good one!
true
lol i laughed out
true i guy like me wound't buy that for more than 100$. regardless how who owned it and it's age. looks like something that is ready to be used as firewood to me.
marcel courchesne a guy like you doesn't have good taste and doesn't know when something clearly needs to be valued for what it's worth
Only the E, A, D and G string pairs are tuned to octaves. The B and high E string pairs are tuned in unison. One of the reasons getting an authentic 12 string sound from a pedal is difficult.
Octave4Plus now makes a .006 High B String for a bigger note range
This is peak irony from Gibson. $13k for a simulated broken headstock and almost max'ed out truss rod? That's so funny it's sad.
Jaxon Victoria My thoughts exactly man!
Shoddy workmanship and overpriced poser guitars, that's the Gibson magic
lptomtom fender made the acoustasonic, you want to talk about overpriced shit?
Matressi - every Gibson I’ve owned, I’ve sold.
Matressi - but is it $13k? Haha
Trogly you should've taken the L and play stairway
ubersturmbanfurher Not going to lie, i was looking for this comment.
And get it taken down for copyright strike? no no no no nope.
Majik53 do you get a copyright strike for versioning a song?
@@nicky5185 - You can if the holders of the copyrights get testy, yes. If you pay the royalties to do a cover, then no.
Stairway to hell then
Fun fact: Ace Frehley recorded a song (I wanna say it was Fractured Mirror) on his ‘78 solo album by doing the sympathetic vibration thing. He said that in his book
Yep, "Fractured Mirror". He had a solidbody EMS-1235 (8 string mandolin/6 string guitar). It was those mandolin strings droning through a cranked Marshall.
I must say, the attention to detail as far as the aging job goes is incredible. But setup and further QC is just inexcusable. I’d price this at 4-5 grand at BEST. Gibsons don’t tend to have the most bang for your buck, but this is just ridiculous. however, thank you trogly for another awesome in-depth video. love your content man!!
13 grand to "feel" like a rockstar. It'll make some depressed wall Street guy feel better about himself that's cool I guess.
Dentists everywhere are living that Sunset Blvd. lifestyle...but Sunset Blvd. 2019, not 1987.
Liam... yep,just for a day or 2
Especially since a standard production EDS-1275 is probably less than half that price.
It will be an office wall ornament that he will say is the real guitar slash used
Pretty hilarious to see pathetic projection like this. How unhappy do you have to be with your life to obsess over how successful people spend their money? Shit on Gibson all you want, but holding a grudge and making comments like this towards people for having wealth is beyond unhinged.
I nearly bought one of these in London in about 1978. It was $1,500.00................ Best, Pete.
You could have bought the most expensive guitar i own 32 times
whats LM! Haven't seen you in awhile!
^ same
@@alabamahebrew still commenting almost every videos. My comment just aint getting enough likes
And like 1500 of my guitar
mine too exactly! haha
First time I saw a 1275 was as an 8 year old, ShinDig with Herman's Hermits a High Voltage sticker between the pick up set.
I believed it!!
Really want the epiphone G-1275 now. $1000 is a little more manageable for me lol
Same for me! I recently started to love double necks
In 2021, I bought one for $500. Not the slash version but still a Gibson. The guy who sold it to me didn't know what it is worth, nor did he care. He just wanted to get rid of it. Overall this guitar is absolutely amazing and plan to get split coils for it.
The silver decorations on the strap are called conchos. Cool demo man
I can't believe you actually got one. Cool! I first laid my hands on an EDS-1275 long ago when I was in my teens. I immediately fell in love with that guitar and will never forget the experience.
It's quite amazing that 2 of the best songs ever written - Hotel California & Stairway to Heaven are both played with a double neck Gibson. November Rain is likewise an Epic arrangement, but not quite up their with the other two. Honorable mention to John McLaughlin as well :)
As far as I know, Jimmy Page used the double neck only on stage. For the recording he used a Fender 12-string and a telecaster.
This ones all scratched up and the screws have been out in the rain, add 8,000 to the price and call it aged.
"You Know those Guitars that are like double guitars , you know?"
-Otto Mann
Yup LOL
Oddly enough, I have an MIJ double neck Mann guitar...
He didn't get one, because of Burns' slant drilling. :)
Resistance drops when pickups (or Humbucker coils) coils are wired in parallel (plus to plus, minus to minus, the only way a toggle 3 way works), as opposed to going up when in series (plus to minus, like the coils on a humbucker are normally). It's just like speakers.
“You can feel the vibration EVERYWHERE.”
"oh no there is a crack under the pickguard. unacceptable for a 13k guitar! but the headstock is nicely beat up, nice job, custom shop guys!" I am not mocking Trogly, I get what he is saying 100%. i am mocking the world we are living in...
I was thinking the same thing.
It's aged
Seriously, who's to say crack wasn't done on purpose?
@@crneube crack is rarely done by accident. Usually one doing crack wants to do crack.
I really appreciate that you give your perspective as a person who’s never really hold one of these guitars and share your genuine expressions! It’s something all of us can resonate with :) cheers!
Aw, yeah, it's here, baby!
Major respect for doing that. Putting down 13k just to review this guitar is a big commitment. Cheers. Love your work.
I still would like to see an original older one from the 70s or 80s
A few months ago, I went to Songbird’s in Chattanooga, TN. They had a huge variety of old double necks that I had no idea existed.
Went to Songbirds,,,,my wife had to tell me to close my mouth. Every case of guitars was absolutely jaw dropping.
The build quality looks like a chibsun.
@Ios5513 posing authentic?
Don't forget Daft Punk using the same guitar in the video for "Robot Rock."
Despite that whole song entirely being sampled from Breakwater's Release the Beast
Ahhaha yes but wasnt the guitar really sounding or did recorded the song with that
@@budaroddy it was just a prop to my knowledge.
@@moonchild4806 Its Daft Punk. Of course it's mostly samples.
@@spark-e I'm aware. I just love fucking with my friends and putting on Release the Beast and watching their minds implode a bit.
I wouldn't pay that much, even if I could. I don't understand the appeal of relicing. You want your guitar to look well used? Well, use it!
Thank you!!
Amen! Because people these days want to have everything but not put in the work to get it
Agreed
Absolutely. buying a relic’d guitar is like buying ripped jeans: stupid.
Because it's a replica. It's not for everyone, it's for Slash fans who collect Slash stuff.
For that price, I would expect absolute perfection.
"Is This Guitar Worth $13,299?" No.
No one will ever mistake you for a rockstar, dude.
Btw absolutely loved your part of the demo! Nice sounds and playing 👌🏽
Built in redundancy. You can break one headstock and still have another!
Lol,great point!!
Dad joke...
ah, a fender guy.
@@matressi6843 ..lol!
The things on his hat is actually a Concho belt. Usually when you think of Concho belt you think of Slash's hat, SRV hat and he also wore Concho belts and Jim Morrison.
Coolest bass I ever played was hand crafted by Tobias in the 70's. Double neck, fretless and fretted. $15k asking price so it was a bit out of my fresh from bootcamp price range.
You make amazing videos keep up the great work
Saying the word: ‘’Authentic’’ in a Gibson review. Such a genius !
No. Next question.
I thank you for taking the time money and energy to review this one for sure as well as all you've done ....great work
The price! The look! The size! Crazy, everything about this guitar is insane! Brilliant!!!!! Really really niche product, hence the very limited run, thanks for showing us this guitar in depth, excellent video! Not for me, but that pelham blue SG special you reviewed recently, droooooooooollllllll
Awesome! Sorry ya have to send it back man, but still awesome.
I have the epiphone version of the 1275 with set necks and it is HEAVY. Best plywood body as well but still sounds reasonable and was slightly more affordable. However if anyone is tempted by the cheapo epi version, DO change the switches as they all seem to be pretty unreliable on all the epis I've bought.
$13,000 guitar with a $13 outfit. Us Troglodytes will have it no other way! Great vid again!!
Outstanding relicing job by the Gibson Custom Shop,not only the guitar finish is reliced but the Truss Rod is also reliced
Wow 12 minutes in and I just realized this is a new guitar! I really thought this was a vintage guitar. They are amazing at aging these things. Incredible
Best channel on the guitar segment around - crazy how many guitar you gotta test, and how honest you are. Please do not stop
Isn't that crack something one could consider as part of the ageing thing?
TBH I don't really get the whole relic concept, I would rather play a brand new guitar and if it ends up looking like that, it just means it was so good it got used a lot.
Yeah...I have a love/hate relationship with relic guitars,lol..
I made a "relic" out of an old Squier strat,just for the art aspect of it..it was fun to do...but would I buy one ..no,I wouldn't!
I got a brand new BMW motorcycle for less than that!
interesting that you say they really resonate. they strike me as a giant tuning fork when i look at them
I would have liked to hear the 12-string side played through the cranked amp. You can get some unique lead sounds with a 12-string.
By the way, I think the silver embellishments on the strap are called "conchos".
Definitely interesting beast! Looks and sounds awesome too. Good thing you go in-depth with your purchases and catch the problems it has, which are definitely unacceptable in an instrument of such regard, and price tag. Thanks for sharing! Btw, your content is so good.
You get extra points for tuning in to the sympathetic resonance of the two sets of strings. Bravo.
Great to see this guitar covered in detail and sound! Making me actually think about getting a double neck.
I've played a few. Even though they look absurd, the bc rich biches are way better than the Gibsons from a usablity standpoint.
@@liamtahaney713 If you can find them the only Gordon Smith's were great.
I agree with Liam, very fond of my BC Rich Bich 6/12. Looks crazy 🍌🍌s in a great way but what a sweet axe!
If you're going overboard for a doubleneck, might as well take the Bich with ya.
John McLaughlin is so underrated he’s freaking spread demon
Yea him and Holdsworth were gettin they shred on
Very interesting.
The sympathetic output from the side of the guitar not being played does add evidence to the whole tone-wood debate.
What I've read is that Vintage pickups were many times microphonic in nature. The belief is that the microphonics of the pickup(s) actually add to the overall tone of a vintage instrument. If the wood does indeed vibrate and add to the overall sound (and this would be expected as certain woods are resonate in nature) then the microphonic pickups would reproduce these sounds/harmonics and include these additional sounds/tones/harmonics and frequencies into the guitar's pickups output.
So even though some have argued that tone-wood is a myth we here have clear evidence that the wood is resonating and inducing signal output in the other pickups.
As I stated earlier, very, very interesting.
So in theory as long as you have a guitar with a resonate piece of wood and slightly microphonic pickups you should have a pretty good sounding instrument.
This whole thing kind of proves out why my custom built R9 sounds so good with un-potted Burstbucker #1 and #2 pickups as those un-potted pickups are indeed microphonic.
Those decorative metal thing on the strap I believe are called Concho’s
Slash is a great ambassador for bringing things back in fashion
My good buddy who I played in a band with while attending college had one of these (I believe manufactured at some point in the '70s - he owned it from the '90s until some point in the 2000s, good condition, although the case smelled no matter what was done to it!), and I ended up spending quite a bit of time with it (as he absolutely hated stringing his many guitars as is, so suffice to say, he hated the process on this guitar 3 times as much!). Playing on the "off" neck while the "on" neck sympathetically resonates is definitely a fun, unique sound. I last had custody of it sometime around '04-'05, and your description of the neck profile, the overall feel brings back memories for me - I think you pretty much nailed it. I guarantee he paid a LOT less than $13K, for his (waiting for him to text me back what he paid back then).
“Art” guitars aside, in my opinion, no guitar mean to be played is worn that kind of money. I
Yeah. You can get a custom shop "standard" model (i.e., not some weird Rick Nielsen quintuple neck) from pretty much any manufacturer for less than $5k. Anything more than that is paying for stuff other than materials and craftsmanship. You're paying for a name, some collector value, or you're buying a display piece.
I've even played with Kiesel's custom builder and can't even break $5k on a ridiculous all-exotic wood multiscale 8 string.
Jimmy Page EDS next please 🙏. Only way we’ll ever see one with this level of detail. Love this format !
Get your money back now!! Just saw a brand new white double neck leave Sarasota FL Guitar Center that blows this crap away! You exposed so many flaws in this I’m pissed off at Gibson for ripping people off. Who was that jamming at the end? Thank you for the hard work YOU put into this for us!!
I played one years ago. Had no idea what I was doing lol. Seems like s badass guitar. I would expect nothing less than them sending you a replacement. Great work as always Mr, Austin!
The signal is quieter in the middle because the pickups connect in parallel. Same reason the middle position on on a two-pickup guitar gives a smaller signal than either pickup individually, or why a humbucker gives a smaller signal with its coils connected parallel vs. series.
I made a 6-over-6 doubleneck so I could switch between open E and standard EADGBE tuning, and ended up wiring the two sets of pickups in series to avert the volume loss when both are on. I also had to put a capacitor in series to reduce loss of treble, but it seems to work. Not as well as an active buffer and mixing circuit would, but the control cavity of this guitar is already too crowded without a preamp!
That guitar is so old school, it aged Trogly by a few decades.
I hope the right people at Gibson see this video and work to stop the bad quality control. My guess is someone covered their tracks with the mistake under the pick guard for fear of losing their job. If Gibson cannot police quality control across such a high profile and extravagant run of only 125 guitars, they will forever remain known as a company that produces SOME great guitars amongst A LOT of rough. Many of us love good Gibson guitars but we are conflicted when we see such lack of QC. Great demo thank you, but still feeling flat about Gibson as a guitar brand. 🙁
Hang on I have to tune up my guitar. I’ll catch up in an hour or so.
this was such a kick ass video, you are right I've never seen anyone other then a rock star playing one and seeing someone else play one I've come to the conclusion that double necks are bad ass
Good to see you've been working out...
The “buckles” on the strap are called conchos they are typically on western hats
Thanks for Taking the time to review this Guitar really enjoyed this video I’m a massive slash fan never gonna be able to afford this guitar.i would definitely buy one if I had a spare thirteen Thousand .Awesome work 🤘🤘🤘
Review the Stevie Ray Vaughan signature strat
Angel Diaz I review it for you, it's not that great. Guitar players develop weird quirks and I'm not sure really how true it is to Stevie. He used bass frets for some reason.
fun fact Adam Day slash guitar tech said in the premier guitar rig rundown " I think its a 88 or 89" but his EDS 1275 is dated as a 66' witch makes it even rarer!
Drop in output in middle ( both ) neck selector position is because you now have four 8K ohm pickups in parallel, 8k \ 4 = 2k , or in other words you have two guitars plugged in but you're playing only one.
The two necks are wired parallel instead of series-that’s why the volume drops when you go to two necks from just one.
I told you to get AN EDS-1275 not THIS EDS-1275. Cheaper, easier to unload, probably better made because the fixtures are in use.
I'm griping, but glad you documented this anyway.
Suddenly, the guy from Duluth Trading Company came in and starting rocking out!
I have a '72 ES-335 with nary a check mark on it. It would pain me deeply to see my Es-335 looking like that.
I did have a '63 SG that was full of checking when I bought it in '70. But the checking was mostly across the body and NOT lengthwise. Here in Minnesnowta the biggest reason for checking is not letting your guitar warm up slowly before opening the case after it's been sitting inside your car in subzero weather.
Steve Clark of Def Leppard used TWO of these for about 5-6 songs, one of them being "Foolin", during their 1988 stadium tour.....one was white, one was red....awesome!
This was quite a few years ago, but at Guitar Center near Nashville I had the honor of handling and playing a double neck. I clung to that thing like a priceless egg and was so paranoid. They are pretty unweildly at first, but after a few minutes it was unbelivability fun.
That guitar solo in the beginning was pretty cool.
Charlie Whitney of Family used a 1275 pretty much exclusively. A really great, really interesting player
Slash did an interview with Guitarist magazine showing off his collection back in 98 if I remember rightly. He actually owns a number of double neck guitars one of which was a Guild in trans green one neck was acoustic the other was electric. I think he also had one Gibson in red as well.
It's disappointing the 55 point inspection didn't catch that truss rod issue, the pick guard screw I could live with. Maybe they just thought most of them would be a wall hanger decoration, but that's no excuse. I still don't get the relic guitars, kind of like buying a new truck and having them break out the windows before you drive it, but that's just my opinion. Great review as always, Thank You.
13k and it's already scratched? Sheesh, no wonder Gibson is going under.
Well, this guitar is for collectors and they are meant to look vintage, the scratches also don't effect the sound
maybe if you actually listened instead of bitching about a guitar you'll never own, you'll understand why it's scratched up.
@@matressi6843 Maybe they were talking about the chip in the wood and used the wrong word? Idk, I prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt
20:45 that shear happiness is why buying an eds1275 is always worth it😄
Allen Woody of the Allman Brothers Band/Gov't Mule had double neck Gibson with bass and mandolin necks on it. I saw him play several times (RIP Allen Woody)
I love that he used the live aid incedent for the jimmy page example
3:39 Elvis with a six string bass is NOT something I would've ever imagined personally
To my understanding, the only ones that are octaves are the E, A and D strings. The G, B and high E are just doubled.
Actually, the G has an octave as well. Lightest gauge in the set.
One of my Dream Guitars.I will never forget Slash sitting on the Ego Box in Tokyo 92 playing Only Women bleed...
It's a Black version of the Jimmy Page Model, either way a Double Neck 12/6 SG Electric Guitar.
Actually Trog, a good buddy of mine has checking on a Les Paul like this, you definitely feel it, I think it depends on whether or not the cracking has reached on through to the clear coat
C'MON DUDE!!! Ace Frehley uses a sun-burst one for 'Rock Bottom' & he and Paul Stanley play the same one in the 'Hard Luck Woman' video!! How could you leave those pictures out of your video brother??
Trogly, your show is great, thank you! The sympathetic vibration you pointed out in this video is intriguing. I’d love to mess with that and the volume / tone combinations. You are the Dwight Schrute of Gibson knowledge (dumb joke, no disrespect, you kind of look like him). Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I’d like to know, where did you learn your luthier skills? That may be a be a cool video.
Hey Trogly, get a Barttlet 1959 Les Paul replica, those guitars deserve your review
In my band the other guys have a couple of these. The white one and two red ones. Really cool and not as expensive as this Signature ones. You get similar results. I guess the neck pickup on these has a higher output because Slash mostly does his melodic solos there. I've tried the Epiphone version and is pretty close, so, guys, don't break the bank unless you're a fan or a collector. I even went cheaper to get into the double neck game with a gorgeous golden Danelectro double neck. I use it a lot because I get most arpeggio parts anyway. So it's the type of guitar you get as soon as you need it. ⚡️⚡️⚡️