Brooks - FV-12
BUILT FOR DUANE DANIELS
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- Korina body wings
- Bookmatched Quilted Maple top - Nine ply Korina/Mahogany Neck through - Cherry Burst high gloss finish - Pearloid binding - Ebony fretboard - Mother of Pearl position. Aluminium Circle dot for 12th - Jumbo frets - 30 1/2" scale - Buffalo horn nut - ETS Custom made twelve string brass bridge and tailpiece. Black |
- Two spokewheel double action trussrods
- Carbon reinforcement strip in the neck - Pickups: Lace Alumitone DB7, Black - Controls : volume, volume, tone - 0.047 mfd capacitor - Gotoh GB 350 lightweight bass tuners, Black - Gotoh ST-31 octave string tuners, Black - Output: Pure Tone Multi Contact jack - d'Addario custom strings - Weight: 4.3 kg Serialnumber: 2024002 This bass was built on commission.
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Build process
The design
A Flying V bass is a bit of a problem. If you make it 34" scale the neck tends to set extremely far to the left. Making it an absurd long instrument. In this case of the 12-string bass, I chose to make it short scale 30 1/2" scale. This would keep the total length very reasonable. And it would make the 12-string bass very easy to play.
I did modify the V shape a little bit, making the "armpit" less deep as the Gibson original.
Initially I borrowed that shape from the Thundervee I also built. But did not have faith in the strength of the tailpiece with the string through body ferrules. So I kept the original ETS tailpiece.
I did modify the V shape a little bit, making the "armpit" less deep as the Gibson original.
Initially I borrowed that shape from the Thundervee I also built. But did not have faith in the strength of the tailpiece with the string through body ferrules. So I kept the original ETS tailpiece.
The discarded version with the string through body ferrules
The 34" scale Thundervee with string through body ferrules in the black extended part