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I've never wanted a bass/guitar doubleneck, and have always thought it was curious that they're so common. The only use I can think of for one is to make it easier to show one's guitarist how to play something correctly.
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Great looking instrument! I hear you loud and clear about the weight and the distance between necks. I'm quite lucky that the upper bass neck on mine is slightly angled up, which helps.
I'm using the guitar neck to throw in a few funky chords here and there around my basslines. My thinking was if you strip funk bass right down, you get a big One and then you basically weave around the backbeat and the weak 3, while a classic thing to do on old R&B or country guitar is to play on 2 and 4 with the backbeat. So I thought I could easily find space to do a bit of both in the same bar or two.
Turns out the reality is all about the practically of switching from one neck to the other without wrecking your wrists and your back. I filmed myself to see what I was actually doing - it was funny to see my left hand on the guitar neck trying to mute notes being played on the bass neck.
Definitely a new learning experience for me but I'm sticking with it!