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Shit those look top notch! I'd love to get my hands on one! Far too broke... and new mics place higher on my list at the moment.

Wheely wrote:How much do those guitars weigh? (I have a Kramer 450G that's so heavy I feel like I'm working out every time I play it. I don't like working out.)

the regular guitars aren't that heavy, really. about like a 70s les paul. but if weight is a big deal for you, you should get an exact weight from kevin before actually buying one.

my baritone is pretty heavy, but that is b/c i asked him to make the neck like the barrel of a baseball bat and not hollow it out.

The guitars weigh in at around 8lbs.....according to Kevin at Electrical.
Not too bad, my Jazzmaster weighs in at more than that, I don't consider that heavy.
Until recently I had a Les Paul deluxe that required a neck brace and scaffolding to play, also it wouldn't stay in tune and sounded a bit crap....yup

I think my baritone weighs somewhere right around 13lbs. It's heavy and all, but I expected that going in. I'm used to it anyway, cause the guitars I play are generally on the heavy side of the spectrum for sure. And the body I picked for it is that of the Gibson G3/Ripper/Grabber bass, which is just about as big of a body as you're gonna get. It's something like 18" across at the widest point. I wanted plenty of real estate on the pickguard for all manner of controls and everything. I got it.

Mine is probably pretty close to Tim's in weight. I've got a thinner neck, but maybe the body on mine is heavier, I dunno, and all the extra hardware with the bridge and all that, it adds a little weight, too.

I'm very satisfied with the weight balance on mine also. It's not neck-heavy, certainly not to a fault. The center of mass seems to be right around where the 24th fret would be if there were that many.

I asked it to marry me, and it said it's thinking about it and will have get back to me on that.

My 500 has arrived from the Electrical Guitar Company.
I should have listed to everyone on this board who had played any of the Electrical guitars.
My first impression was I wasn't going to get on with it, the neck is very thin (like, unbelievably so), but after playing it for an hour or so everything else feels wrong. I have 1961 Jazzmaster with a fantastic neck (for a Fender), this now feels huge, clumsy and uncomfortable.
I got Kevin to put a 12" radius on the board, which I think has worked out perfect, I couldn't do a zero board.
I had to do a bit of fettling on the nut (I took it off to skim a bit off the bottom to lower the strings a tiny bit).
The best bit is the sound, I thought it would be harsh, loads of top end and hi-mids (and not the nice hi-mids either). but I was wrong...so, so wrong. It sounds really well balanced in the mid and neck position, on the bridge PU it sounds like an angry Telecaster but without the scratchy-ness, more of a bark (think large, hairy hound...not small, yappy terrier)than a kranky, spikey yap....(apologies for the crap audio descriptions).
I am possibly the fussiest guitarist in the world (you can take that to the bank) I find most guitars have faults, if you are thinking of buying one of these but are humming/harring regarding playability, sound, weight.......then don't be, they are fantastically well made, you can tell Kevin has spent a lot of time and effort fine tuning the machining details.
I had a Travis Bean TB500 6-7 years ago, the Electrical Guitars are better, much better.

Salut..! The Electrical Guitar Company

evolu wrote:I had a Travis Bean TB500 6-7 years ago, the Electrical Guitars are better, much better.

Salut..! The Electrical Guitar Company

my electrical 500 just came last friday.



it is a one-piece alder stained natural sedona and clearcoated.

i am damn impressed.
i too owned a TB500 about eight yrs. ago. i traded it for an artist and some cash after frustration that it was literally falling apart (stress cracks on back, fretboard coming unglued, etc).

this new guitar is a great tribute to the 500 indeed. in many ways it is a better guitar as the flaws of the original TB500 are all addressed, in my opinion. the big honkin' metal piece on the back eliminates the stress cracks from where the neck slides into the wood. the metal fretboard is awesome. the bridge pickup seems much less shrill and brittle than the sound of the original 500 bridge pu. did i mention the pickups are hot/loud? pretty cool. i think it also succeeds in being more than just a "copy" - it does have a sound of its own, and everything thus far is very likeable. very stable, stays in tune great, doesn't weigh as much as I was expecting it to.

great sparkly bright highs, clear mids and defined bass both clean and distorted. great sustain. excellent craftsmanship.

the only con I can think of is the stainless steel frets aren't beveled much so they dig into my hand. this seems like an easy fix with a fret bevel file.

i highly recommend these guitars.

just wanted to comment on how great the above stained body looked.
my guitarist plays the black body and it's absolutely wonderful.
i'm curious as to the sound of the basses, especially the wedge like style

I got mine the first week of March and love it dearly. I'm considering getting another, mainly because it's rendered my other guitars obsolete. Before my Electrical arrived, my main guitar was an SG Classic (P-90s), which had been my favorite guitar OF ALL TIME, and I've had plenty. Now my SG feels like a child's plaything, with a neck like a baby's leg.

That wood finish looks sweet. Mine looks like this:

I have a second baritone coming whenever it's finished.

It's more of a six-string bass than a baritone. 32" scale length.

It's supposed to be TV yellow w/an aged clear coat.

Will post pix. I'm looking forward to hearing his pickups--my other bari has Lindy Fralin P90s in it. This one will have split-coil humbuckers.

It is hard to play other guitars after you get one.

tmidgett wrote:It is hard to play other guitars after you get one.

That should be the one caveat.

I can't think of another.

Oh, wait...here's the other: "Warning: Playing an Electrical Guitar Company guitar in public will lead to lots of questions and explanations exchanged between the player and man-fans in the audience".