Well... this is different

[tb-player]

Vintage Carvin Double-neck Bass/Mandolin -A Supersonic Sixties Space Race with George & Jane Jetson | Lazy Angels Music | Reverb

 

[nixdad]

The Eborsisk...

 

[jeffb28451]

What a mess...but they were thinking “ out of the box”, I guess.

 

[garp]

Love the Leo-inspired tugbar.

 

[Tubehed]

What a weird pairing! As a bass and mandolin player, I kind of dig it. But, man, that thing is bizarre. Even for me.

 

[Ghastly]

I can't take "instruments" like this seriously. But, it would be strangely interesting if it actually sounded good.

 

[2112]

I'm looking for a double-neck washtub bass/banjo.

 

[CryingBass]

I might buy it just for the knobs

 

[tb-player]

What a weird pairing! As a bass and mandolin player, I kind of dig it. But, man, that thing is bizarre. Even for me.

I'm just trying to understand a scenario where a musician would switch from bass to mandolin so quickly, they would need to be in the same guitar.

 

[zubrycky]

As a bass and a mandolin player I love it! GAS!

 

[HaphAsSard]

What a weird pairing! As a bass and mandolin player, I kind of dig it. But, man, that thing is bizarre. Even for me.

The specific combination is not new. From a recent thread about doublenecks:

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And then, if you're even more of a multi-instrumentalist (I happen to have a friend who would spend equal time on each and any of the offshoots in one of his gigs), there's always Steve Puto's...thing:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/5-neck-guitar-stars-in-calgary-collection-1.888739

It does include bass and single-coursed electric mandolin (the latter is known as a guitarra baiana in Brazil) among the options.
Amazingly enough, he didn't have it made, but actually found it in a shop! The original owner - and builder, if not one and the same person - is/are unknown.

 

[micguy]

Spinal Tap did mandolin on Stonehenge, and everyone played bass on Big Bottom. So...for certain set lists, this is just the ticket.

 

[Pocket4]

It kind of makes a lot of sense to me. In a freaky way.

 

[LBS-bass]

Yeah, that looks like an early luthier's idea of "figuring it out" but cool in a historic sense.

 

[Bob E]

What? No bottle opener?

 

[BassToGoGo]

Somewhere up above, Allen Woody is smiling...

 

[Carl Hillman]

Vintage Carvin Double-neck Bass/Mandolin -A Supersonic Sixties Space Race with George & Jane Jetson | Lazy Angels Music | Reverb

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Definite Dieselpunk vibe to that thing...

 

[ardgedee]

I'm curious whether this is something Carvin made, or if the bass neck was simply appropriated from a Carvin bass. The rest of the bass's hardware came from six-string guitars, including the bridge. And that strikes me as too hacky for Carvin to do.

 

[RickBlair]

I'm thinking that is an early Carvin neck mated to a LSD-inspired creation. I don't think Carvin ever produced anything with that dodgy a build quality.

Rick B.

 

[Bill Whitehurst]

They are perfectly happy to sell just a neck.
What happens to it is beyond their control.