Sometimes it's hard not to feel a bit of a jackass with this behemouth, filled with dellusions of Jimmy-Page-grandeur, daring to pretend you'll reach the heights of Howe or even McLaughlin or perhaps even (joke) ELVIS! The double-neck has always been synonymous with the ego-soaked execeses of the 1970s. So, I'm guilty, I grew up in that vile decade, and stood agog at Meister Page during Led Zeppelin's 1977 Seattle gig, longing that I would one day play such a mythical instrument.
Knowing there were so-many like-minded dupes, Epiphone created two doubleneck models in the 90s, one patterned after the original Gibson EDS-1275, and another patterened after Jimmy Page's customized doubleneck. As I said in my intro, I had no electric guitar in the late 90s, and wanted to just get one, ultimate guitar, and this was it. But the doubleneck is more than just two necks on the same body. What makes the doubleneck hella-kewl is that the necks can 'interact', and you can create sympathetic vibrations, which can make sounds no single-neck guitar can do (without effects, anyway). I got the Alpine White finish instead of Cherry, as I liked it better and thought it might make people think less of Jimmy Page when they saw it. Now it's much harder to find than the Cberry models as white was discontinued.
This is a cumbersome beast, but perfect for a studio-bound dood like me. It's setup like Page's EDS-1275, with open coils on the 6-string neck and covered ones on the 12 neck and the extra string length past the bridge (which supposedly make it easier to bend strings). The pickups are quite loud, especially the open-coil ones on the 6-string neck, and it sustains pretty good with all that wood in the body. It's not great for soloing, as the necks are set deep in the body. Like I did on my G400 Custom, I put Fender knobs on the pots and changed the black switch covers with white.
Unique Feature(s): Two interacting necks