Doubleneck Kit Build

Hi, I'm Mike Sullivan. Welcome to Guitar Tech. How to do it yourself. Hi, Gospel Guitarist here with a video, as promised, on the double neck guitar build that I just purchased from Cozart off of eBay. First thing I want to do is assemble everything out of the box, see if everything is OK. As you can see on the headstocks I drew how I'm going to cut the necks so it matches the body. Speaking of cutting, here I removed a chunk of wood from the body to make room for the switches that I'm going to install. Here on this switch plate will be two small double pole double throw switches which you'll see later in the video. And on the body I had to drill two more holes located in the control compartment so that I could install two switches there for the pickups on the six string neck. I had cut out the headstocks which turned out really well. And they will now match the body. This is all the supplies that I had to buy for finishing, including the saw that you see in the background there to cut the neck. Here's the necks finished. And yeah, there was some flaming on the six string neck that you can see. That actually does go all the way up the neck. Here's my custom hanger that I was using for painting the body of the guitar. The poor man's version. Taking the copper from Carbon.com. I got a shielding kit from them and the switches that you see, the big toggles are also carbon switches. This was my first time doing a shielding and everything went pretty smoothly. You got to be careful because this stuff is razor sharp. Installing all of the shielding on the guitar I suffered several minor cuts. But I got through it. Here we have my custom coating for my wiring so that I could keep my neck output and bridge wires together. Since they were all colored in white. Here's another shot of the switch for the neck selector. Here's a close up of the new pointer washers that I installed. I've always kind of wanted those. I think the Mont Gibson's never had any so hey, you know, three bucks. Here's a shot of the interior after I got the wiring done. Complete with orange drop caps on the tone controls. What I like to call the snake pit. Here's a quick overview of the wiring on the 12 string neck. So you can kind of see how everything kind of went together along with Seymour Duncan and Top Hat upgrades. Here I have Tusk nut upgrades. Which helped the tone of the guitar a lot. This is just a quick shot of the full assembled guitar. Which looks better in the photo than it does in person. I may refinish this guitar at a later date. It doesn't look bad, but it was my first time. I think I can do it better. Here I am just kind of play testing it with my headphones on. Got my wife to take a quick shot that I thought would be kind of cool to have for later. And that'll do for now. Sound check's coming. Well thanks for watching and see you next time on Guitar Tech. How to do it yourself.