Rotoneck and twist bass

[Jim_D]

Weird instrument, but some interesting ideas about lots of strings on one guitar. I don't know if anyone has ever tapped on one of these but I bet you could.

http://guitarz.blogspot.com/2009/12/evolution-of-lubani-rotoneck-guitars.html

Even odder for me is the twist bass

http://buildingtheergonomicguitar.com/2009/03/padilla-style-torzal-twist-bass.html

...but apparently it helps the player with tendonitis, so that's good.

[secondfiddle]

The RotoNeck is quite unique but should probably never be played after 12:00 am at any pub gig.

Fiddle.

[lactose]

Leo Burrell (http://www.burrellguitars.com/) used to make twisted neck guitars not far from where I grew up. Shame he retired before I got to meet him. Of course now my brain is spinning, wondering what kind of jig I would need to make a neck like this.

[Krappy]

http://www.krappyguitars.com/touch57.jpg

if i played it a while longer, i might have enjoyed

it, but i'm so used to flat that it felt weird. also

the left hand had to be almost completely by feel

i set it up uncrossed, 5ths in bass 4ths melody.

[Krappy]

btw the neck was angled aluminum from a computer rack stand
and the wood was my old mailbox post that got wailed by a snow plow

[TheEclectic]

Leo Burrell used to make twisted neck guitars not far from where I grew up.

I have on of his early guitars (number 5, I believe). I got it off E-bay from him several years ago for around $200.00. It is this style, but it has an orange finish: Double Cutaway (http://www.burrellguitars.com/Double%20Cutaway%20Electric.html)

The cool thing about the guitar is that it is butcher block construction that was hollowed out. I guess he hollowed out each piece as he glued it together.

He did not have the alignment correct on the instrument and I had to add a shim to the neck, reposition the pickups, the bridge and the tailpiece. Due to intonation issues, I had to use a wilkinson style roller bridge. For the tail I used a Bigsby vibrato because I could not move the existing threaded tail piece receivers.

The action and intonation on the guitar are now OK, but it goes out of tune when the bigsby gets used. I do not play it much, but keep it around because of its cool looks.

I do not find the twisted neck to be more or less comfortable than a typical guitar neck.

[rjgoos]

...also the left hand had to be almost completely by feel...




Yeah, same problem with the accordion.