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Brooks - FV-12  

BUILT FOR DUANE DANIELS

- 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
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- 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

PRICE € 3750

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.
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The discarded version with the string through body ferrules
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The 34" scale Thundervee with string through body ferrules in the black extended part
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  • About me
  • Bass
    • Brooks Nachtkrapp
    • Brooks PB-2
    • Brooks Thinline TeleBird >
      • Brooks Thinline TeleBird #2
    • Brooks ThunderVee >
      • Brooks UV
    • Brooks Grabbird
    • Brooks EB-N >
      • Brooks EB-N Red
    • Brooks EBN-MS-5
    • Brooks TeleBird
    • Brooks EB-MM-Q
    • Brooks EB-RBL-Q >
      • Brooks EB-RBL-Q II
    • Brooks EB-RBL
    • Brooks EB-TB >
      • Brooks EB-TB-IV
    • Brooks EB-PL Noir
    • Brooks EB-PL
    • Brooks-1
    • Brooks-1.2
    • Brooks EXB-MS-10
    • Brooks EXB-4-SA
    • Brooks EXB-MS-5
    • Modification EB-SPL-Noir
    • Gotchie EB-PL burst
    • Gotchie EB-PL cherry
    • Acoustic Bass
    • LesPaulBass2015
  • 12- string Bass
    • Brooks EXB-12-SA
    • Brooks EXB-12-TP
    • Brooks EXB-12-TP Black
    • Brooks DDB
    • Brooks FV-12
    • Brooks QB
    • Brooks TB-12-Q
    • Brooks TB-12
    • Brooks EXB-12-Q
    • Brooks EXB-12-B
    • Brooks EXB-12-3P
    • Brooks EXB-12-2PR >
      • Brooks EXB-12R-MV
    • Brooks EB-N-12
    • Brooks EXB-12-QB
  • Guitar
    • Brooks LS
    • Brooks LP-SC
    • Brooks LP-TC Almalgamation
    • Brooks FireCaster
  • Concepts
  • Repairs and mods
    • Epiphone Newport
    • Headstock repair
    • Waterstone Pickup replacement
    • Gibson Les Paul Signature
    • Gibson Les Paul Prototype
  • Book
  • Contact
  • Special