tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734566.post6345328954324687870..comments2024-03-27T09:46:15.606+00:00Comments on Guitar Blog: Jim Rodford's doubleneck behemoth comprising Fender P-Bass and StratGavin Lloyd Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10937598384359522498noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734566.post-8378683768475776882018-10-12T14:23:51.605+01:002018-10-12T14:23:51.605+01:00If you are trying to track down the origins of thi...If you are trying to track down the origins of this guitar,,, I was in House of Guitars Rochester NY. (1972) Saw one of these guitars and had one custom made,,,, half strat and half jazz base. used it for years!!! Wish I could find it!! I wonder if they got it there!!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18175784925273602840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734566.post-16727358979092349022015-10-19T19:52:01.540+01:002015-10-19T19:52:01.540+01:00Can confirm that Rodford's double neck was ori...Can confirm that Rodford's double neck was originally two guitars. I can clearly remember an article in the musiciany column in Sounds music paper about it. He said something like these models were out of favour at the time so turned up cheap. He had the idea to make a convertible set and had a luthier somewhere do the deed. I met him backstage at a gig in Inverness about 10 years ago, but I got all too star struck and shy to ask him about it ha ha.stebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01208389222203784906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734566.post-42720147166496757372013-05-26T17:39:24.019+01:002013-05-26T17:39:24.019+01:00The Holy Strat was originally a regular Fender Str...The Holy Strat was originally a regular Fender Strat. Ballard had it customised with the cut-down upper horn and of course those holes. He told me that he was inspired by chairs that were populare at the time which had holes in them. The neck was originally as it should have been for a Strat - at one point it had a hole in the headstock too, but was later changed for a Tele neck. As Ballard had a habit of spinning the guitar around at the end of a song maybe he once dropped it and broke the original neck. The guitar has had various combinations of pickups over the years. I think latterly it had two single coils and a Gibson humbucker in the bridge position.<br /><br />My own Feline Holy Panther Strat - see http://guitarz.blogspot.com/2006/03/check-out-my-latest-guitar-courtesy-of.html - was influenced by Russ Ballard's guitar. I've even seen my guitar pictured on guitar forums and listed as being Russ's guitar. Russ has seen photos of my guitar and commented to me that it was like seeing an old friend.<br /><br />I've seen relatively recent photos of the re-formed Argent and Russ has been playing the old Holy Strat again - now refinished in gold and still with a Tele neck.Gavin Lloyd Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10937598384359522498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734566.post-73446436907793340382013-05-26T12:00:38.044+01:002013-05-26T12:00:38.044+01:00The Wholly Strat is interesting. Looks like no mid...The Wholly Strat is interesting. Looks like no middle pickup and headstock cut approximate Tele shape.CODhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04031800637119867463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734566.post-76607993067795930522013-05-26T01:06:48.156+01:002013-05-26T01:06:48.156+01:00Hi there,
just found a whole load of high quality ...Hi there,<br />just found a whole load of high quality pictures of Rodford playing this doubleneck, here they are:<br /><br />http://www.drjazz.ch/album/phoenix.html<br /><br />Hope it'll help!<br />LorenzoLorxsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05789068409099783302noreply@blogger.com