Holy not crap. That's gorgeous.

Thanks Tim. You Just tipped the balance on whether to place an order. I've been debating this for the last 3 months.

tmidgett wrote:

Damn, that looks gorgeous. I can't wait to hear it. I've been wanting to get a Fender Baritone Custom for a while, but I'm sure this makes the Fender sound like ukuele with some bridge cable.

Tim, are you still using a 1x15 cabinet with this?

Tom wrote:Thanks Tim. You Just tipped the balance on whether to place an order. I've been debating this for the last 3 months.

Hey, great.

I have a hard time imagining that you will regret it.

tallchris wrote:Damn, that looks gorgeous. I can't wait to hear it. I've been wanting to get a Fender Baritone Custom for a while, but I'm sure this makes the Fender sound like ukuele with some bridge cable.

The Fenders I have heard get a thumpier, deader sound with less deep low end. Hard to get that out of these guitars. They may be too alive for some people. I could imagine that.

For a striking, full, ringing sound, I don't think there's much of a comparison.

Tim, are you still using a 1x15 cabinet with this?

I'm using a 1x15" with a 2x12". The 15" cab is ported, and the 2x12" has a partially open back. I use 100W speakers in the 2x12 to accommodate the low end.

tmidgett wrote:

Tom wrote:Thanks Tim. You Just tipped the balance on whether to place an order. I've been debating this for the last 3 months.

Hey, great.

I have a hard time imagining that you will regret it.

Just thinking about having one is worth the price, so no. I'm sure I won't.

I do have a couple of questions for you though.
1. What is the deal with the split coil pickups?
2. You had said your neck is not hollow. Is this standard for them? Is there any added cost to have a "baseball bat" neck as you called it? How much weight does it add?

are those pictures of your guitar in your yard?

your grass is insanely healthy looking. congratulations on having a good lawn in a place i can't think it is easy to have a good lawn.

that instrument looks fantastic.

Tom wrote:I do have a couple of questions for you though.
1. What is the deal with the split coil pickups?

The split-coils are modeled after the Bean humbuckers, I think. They're humbuckers, but if you yank on the vol knob for the PU, it splits the coil and turns that PU into a single-coil--slightly lower output, much brighter sound.

The humbuckers as is sound really nice. I think he can wind them to order, pretty much. I'm also pretty sure he'll put in whatever pickups you want.

My all-aluminum baribass has Lindy Fralin P90s. They seem hotter than these humbuckers, but that may be due to the aluminum body rather than the PUs. Otherwise, they seem grittier-sounding, not as clean--not better or worse, really, just different.

2. You had said your neck is not hollow. Is this standard for them? Is there any added cost to have a "baseball bat" neck as you called it? How much weight does it add?

My old one, the neck is solid. The new one, the neck is chambered--he sliced off the fingerboard, chambered it, and reattached it with screws, I think, underneath the fretboard dots.

Dunno about cost on the baseball bat neck--mine was a prototype, so we weren't really thinking about that. The bat neck one is MUCH heavier and neck-diving than the chambered, slimmer one.

In a vacuum, with the shorter scale length of 30", I might prefer the bat neck over the slimmer neck. But the great balance of the new gtr w/the slimmer neck, as well as its extra length, makes me happier than I would be with a fat neck, less optimal balance, and/or shorter scale length.

I have a feeling the chambered neck will stay in tune better as temperature changes. The thick, solid neck will go a little out of whack if I don't take it onstage until just before I play. The flatter neck profiles don't seem to have this issue, and the chambering will actually make the new neck more rigid.

are those pictures of your guitar in your yard?

your grass is insanely healthy looking. congratulations on having a good lawn in a place i can't think it is easy to have a good lawn.

Ha ha! Kevin took those. He lives in Florida.

Ha ha! Kevin took those. He lives in Florida.

that makes more sense.

My second Electrical guitar is in the mail. I knew I needed another one when I broke a string (first one in 4 months of heavy use) and I had to strap on my backup guitar to finish our set. Whatever fun factor I was enjoying at the time dropped drastically. And my backup guitar is no slouch, it's just.......not like the Electrical.

I will post pictures of my aluminum sex kittens copulating on my couch ASAP. If you're really lucky, I might even pose nude with them. Coincidentally, my penis also has a flat radius.

tmidgett - That baritone is a beauty. I'd seen pictures of it on the Electrical myspace page and was wondering which lucky bastard would be receiving it. Do you happen to have any recordings of your first Electrical? Just curious. As far as someone famous getting one soon, it will probably be some douche in Fall Out Boy or something. Just our luck.

They sure do have killer grass in Florida.

Kevin rules.

Mine didn't have the knobs and switches in it yet while it was on the Florida grass. And there'll be at least one more switch going in there before I'm done, probably two.







Two old Teisco gold foil pickups, one new Electrical 4-conductor humbucker.

3 Volume knobs, one for each pickup. Silver knob is for the Electrical, and it's a push-pull pot with the pulled position being single-coil.

One phase switch for the neck position pickup.

One pickup selector switch, with the up position being the two Teiscos, the down position being the Electrical, and the middle being all 3.

Plans are for another switch, for phasing of the Electrical pickup.

And then when I finally get around to it, the switch that will toggle between the local settings on the instrument's controls, and the settings on a stompbox that will have one or maybe even two more complete sets of controls. So I could, at the flip of a single switch (or stompbox button) go from one collection of settings to a totally different setting. If I ever do it, I'll need to add 3 or 4 CAT5 jacks on it, too. That's part of why I picked just about the most-surface-area-having instrument body out there.

I had a hard time getting a photo that didn't make it look dirty. Cause I've been playing it an awful lot.