Can't afford a 12 string?

[Karbon L. Forms]

Take three (or more!) of those useless ultra-thin plectrums

Useless? These are all I use How anyone can use those thick/heavy f#ckers is beyond me

No No! Those wee rock solid gibson teardrops for me only. Floppy picks are like over-compression. You lose all your dynamic wotnot.

Noooooo- for acoustic strumming those wafer-thin ones are the biz! More, err, zingy.

If you hold it really loosely, and let it flop about, you can do jangly bits. Then stab f**k out the strings when you do a leady bit.
Jesus Christ. Wot ma sayin!?!?

[püRe]

or you can glue the bodies of two guitars together forming a makeshift double neck
measure the distance from fretboard to fretboard

get 5 thin but strong sticks of wood
get 4 round shaped pieces of gum eraser

cut the sticks to match the previously measured distance

glue 2 plectrums on either side of one of the stick

glue one eraser gum to one end of each remaining sticks

glue the other sides of the sticks to the top of the fingers of your fretting hand, one stick for each finger

stand in front of the mirror and look like a complete dork

[Ian B]

Take three (or more!) of those useless ultra-thin plectrums

Useless? These are all I use How anyone can use those thick/heavy f#ckers is beyond me

that's strange.. I expected you to hate 12-strings

I 12 strings, I wish I'd kept that cheapo Yamaha I had years back, it played and sounded great

No No! Those wee rock solid gibson teardrops for me only. Floppy picks are like over-compression. You lose all your dynamic wotnot.

I haven't got a lot of dynamic wotnot to lose, so I'm ok there
Mind you, the amount of people who've asked me "How the f#ck do you play with those?" over the years, guess I'm in a minority..............

[xoxos]

Noooooo- for acoustic strumming those wafer-thin ones are the biz! More, err, zingy.

wafer thin copper picks if you havne't tried copper. it's like not even strumming.

[clueless]

or you can glue the bodies of two guitars together forming a makeshift double neck
measure the distance from fretboard to fretboard

get 5 thin but strong sticks of wood
get 4 round shaped pieces of gum eraser

cut the sticks to match the previously measured distance

glue 2 plectrums on either side of one of the stick

glue one eraser gum to one end of each remaining sticks

glue the other sides of the sticks to the top of the fingers of your fretting hand, one stick for each finger

stand in front of the mirror and look like a complete dork

ok. done it.

hmmm

nothing's happeni...

oh

[homebrew]

Seriously, there is a trick for getting a faux 12-string sound, called the "Nashville" tuning. The E, A, D, G strings (also heard of just the E, A, and D) are replaced with lighter gauge strings and are tuned an octave higher than normal. The B and high E string stay as normal. This gives it an extra shimmer. You can then mix this with a traditionally tuned acoustic track to get, essentially, a 12-string sound. Of course, this is more convenient if you have another 6 string laying around.

[spaceman]

or you can glue the bodies of two guitars together forming a makeshift double neck
measure the distance from fretboard to fretboard

get 5 thin but strong sticks of wood
get 4 round shaped pieces of gum eraser

cut the sticks to match the previously measured distance

glue 2 plectrums on either side of one of the stick

glue one eraser gum to one end of each remaining sticks

glue the other sides of the sticks to the top of the fingers of your fretting hand, one stick for each finger

stand in front of the mirror and look like a complete dork

ok. done it.

hmmm

nothing's happeni...

oh

I had to study the pictures before I got it

[wrench45us]

I'm told, but have no real experience of it, that many sounds ssociated with 12 string guitars esp. Rickenbackers, esp. Byrds/McQuinn et al have the effect of the 12 string ring enhanced by ample use of sus 2 and sus 4 chords