Lobue Double Neck ca 1975 - light sunburst

LOBUE Doubleneck, A beautiful, one-of-a-kind masterpiece from early 1970’s. This electric double neck guitar was created for jazz great Steve Khan, built by master luthier Charles LoBue in his Thompson Street, NYC workshop. LoBue was the go-to builder of unique electric guitars and was frequented by many notable guitarists of the era. LoBue was assisted by several apprentices while building this guitar who later became quite notable including Woody Pfifer and Larry DiMarzio.

The body is carved from a single piece of birch and has two mahogany necks both with ebony fingerboards, mother of pearl fret markers and double mother of pearl fret markers at 12th and 21st frets. Pickups were hand wound by Larry DiMarzio and complete a rich and broad tonal palette, 1.75” at the 12 string nut, 1.625” at the 6 string nut, 4 one-of-a-kind hand wound pickups by Larry DiMarzio. German Schaller tuners, Kluson style tune-o-matic chrome bridge and tailpiece, Jumbo frets, very low and playable action, Brass strap knobs.

Three 3-way toggle switches:

Top – 12 string neck pickup selector

Middle – Neck selector, north/ south orientation

Up – 12 string neck on

Middle – both necks on

Bottom – 6 string neck on

Bottom – 6 string neck pickup selector

2 pairs of chrome single volume and tone knobs for each neck.

3-way mini toggle switch for coil splitting/ in-out of phase for the 6 string bridge pickup.

Weight – 13.2 lbs.

LOBUE logo and mother of pearl flaming vase inlay on each headstock.

Fitted Epiphone hard case, exc+.....$9500