Eastwood Teleolin

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Check out this photo of the prototype. Wow! What is that?? A customer (Mike Haase) recently asked us if we sold our Mandocaster necks separately. We asked, "Why would anyone want that?". He told us he was building a double neck guitar; 6-string with a Mandolin. We started thinking about that, then soon realized we wanted one too, and suspect if the price was right, you would also want one. So, we made a prototype (see image). After messing around with it for a few days, we decided on some changes to improve the playability (see CAD drawing that incorporates the final changes) like the Mando bridge placement and the headstock shapes. With your help, we'll have these into production and ready to ship to you before Christmas! Here are the specifications:

Body Wood: Basswood

Neck Wood: Both necks Maple with Rosewood Fingerboard

Number of Frets: Guitar 21, Mando 20

Scale Length: Guitar 25 1/2", Mando 14"

Nut Width: Guitar 1 5/8", Mando 1 3/16"

Pickups: Hi-Output Nashville Series Neck and Bridge Combo, Mando Blade

Bridge: Both Tele-style

Electronics: Guitar 3 Way Switch, Volume, and Tone, 3-way Guitar/both/Mando

Final Price $799 (less deposit) includes custom gigbag. $150 deposit secures yours for November 2018 delivery. Shipping extra.

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JPL
July 4, 2018 Reply

Not asking you to promise a lefty, but promise me you’ll think about a lefty.
Mike Haase
July 4, 2018 Reply

I have made a double neck like this for my use, they are great to have. Realize that you don’t need to know how to play mandolin to play the mandolin neck. I tune my mandolin like the first four strings (high pitch) of a guitar. Same gauge strings as a guitar. Same chords and lead riffs that I already know but I’m playing a mandolin. There are many times that a mandolin is needed for a bridge of a song but the rest of the song is Tele all the way. I need my double neck in those cases. I don’t play a gig now without it.
Mike Haase
July 4, 2018 Reply

I did’t know of anyone making a double neck like this. I had to make a double neck like this for my use, they are indispensible to have. Realize that you don’t need to know how to play mandolin to play the mandolin neck. I tune my mandolin like the first four strings (high pitch) of a guitar. Same gauge strings as a guitar. Same chords and lead riffs that I already know but I’m playing a mandolin. There are many times that a mandolin is needed for a bridge of a song but the rest of the song is Tele all the way. I need my double neck in those cases. I don’t play a gig now without it.
Richland K. Harper
July 5, 2018 Reply

oh yes!!!!!! exactly THIS has been in my head for ages. I’ve seen a pic via google image search with exaclty this configuration, intrigued! what color will it be?
reknball
July 5, 2018 Reply

… needs a Bigsby …
Sean Lally
July 5, 2018 Reply

How about a version with two 6-string necks, one of which is an octave neck? Joe Maphis, man!
Fred
July 5, 2018 Reply

What the weight? Would the mandolin feel or play any different than a mandocaster? Cool idea. Just not sure if one will get in the way of the other.

Michael Robinson
July 6, 2018 Reply

weighs about 8 lbs. Yes, plays just like a Mndocaster.

John
July 6, 2018 Reply

I’m asking for a lefty.
David
July 6, 2018 Reply

Very interesting!
I’m glad you got the dot markers in the right place on the CAD drawing. It would have been a non-starter if it looked like the prototype.
This instrument is a nifty idea.
James Iozia
July 6, 2018 Reply

4 tuners per side on the mando neck please. It would be a pain to have to change sides of the headstock to tune unison strings if you do a 5/3 split.
Mike Sal
July 7, 2018 Reply

Had hopes of seeing a double with bass and six string.
Billy
July 7, 2018 Reply

Change the mando pickup to a four pole like the Fender Electric Mandolin. It will look much better
Roger W Nelson
July 8, 2018 Reply

I made one last winter and have been gigging with it lately. They’re pretty great, I wind up leaving the two necks on all the time and switching between the two mid song, accenting verses and choruses, or even mid solo and split solos with myself. #twamgmaster & #mandocaster on instagram to see some pix and clips of my custom build. I wrote you guys about getting an 8 saddle bridge, but didn’t hear anything to made my own out of a Telecaster 3 saddle bridge, but down to 2 and slotted for 8 strings.
Roger W Nelson
July 8, 2018 Reply

I made one last winter and have been gigging with it a fair bit. Check out #twangmaster on instagram.
Mike Haase
July 11, 2018 Reply

Yes, I agree, mine really does play like a mandocaster and a tele . The tele strings do not get in the way of the mandolin. And the mandolin tuned like a guitar really still sounds like a mandolin due to the double strings. A six string octave guitar sounds like a guitar an octave higher but still sounds like a guitar. One modification that I did to my prototype was move the tail strap pin onto the top back of the body just in back of the bridges. This sounds weird and looks a bit odd with the guitar strap over top of the back of the guitar but when playing while standing this curls the guitar upwards making it easier to see the tele neck. I love this double neck because it weight only slightly more than a tele, that is MUCH lighter than a typical “large” body double neck 6/8 mando-guitar and is not at all “unyielding” like regular double necks.
John
July 14, 2018 Reply

Where’s the lefty version?

Michael Robinson
July 15, 2018 Reply

OK, we’ve added a lefty version.

Lukas
July 16, 2018 Reply

Hi guys
why not back routing… there is so much plastic
and what about colors? is alder too bright and aggressive?
Lukas
Bugs Nelson
July 19, 2018 Reply

As a mandolin player, I would strongly agree with 4+4 tuners on the mando neck. There is no need to alter the mandolin players orientation as a multi-neck is confounding enough in itself.

I would not purchase this with a white pick guard. Tortoise shell would be more fitting to the traditional guard on a mandolin and would look good with the tele side as well.
Brad Shipley
July 26, 2018 Reply

Couple of questions please:
Radius of the guitar fretboard?
Thickness of neck(s)?
Why is the mando pickup so slanted?

Thank you
James Iozia
July 26, 2018 Reply

So which is it? 5/3 as shown in the diagram or 4/4 as in the picture?

Michael Robinson
July 27, 2018 Reply

diagram is the actual production build

Bradley
July 27, 2018 Reply

Hello,

What will the guitar and mandolin fret board radius be?
What will the neck thickness be?
Why is the mandolin pickup slanted so much?

Thank you

Michael Robinson
July 27, 2018 Reply

12″ radius, slim pater neck. slanted because it is a full size pickup

John
July 28, 2018 Reply

Mike:

– With an eye to possible electronics mods, what type of routing are you planning under that pickguard?
– Any possibility blank pickguards could be made available?
– Will it fit in a standard HSC?
– Possible replacement necks and bridges – like 5-string mando, etc.?
– It looks like your Warren Ellis headstock – is this correct?

Thanks

PS – you folks have to do a 5 string Bigsby e-mando and a short-scale (21″) electric tenor
Mike Haase
August 1, 2018 Reply

Having a custom pickguard made up after the fact could be a good way of “making it your own”. Bugs, my final mando/tele that I built has a tortoise color pickguard but my prototype has a white pickguard.
Lee
August 2, 2018 Reply

Make it in seafoam green and I will order it.
Brett
August 8, 2018 Reply

Will this have a hard case option?
Tim
August 17, 2018 Reply

5/3 headstock is a dealbreaker.

Michael Robinson
August 21, 2018 Reply

too bad for you!

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