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holmes wrote:what do the p90's sound like compared to the humbuckers? i was thinking about ordering one with 'buckers, but i think i might be defeating the whole point.

I think it's important to point out that those pickups are NOT P-90s, they're just in P-90 casings. The way I understand it, the pickups are based on the original T500 single coils, but are just......MORE.

justinw wrote:

roadness wrote:i'm curious as to the sound of the basses

me too
anyone played one??

i hate to quote myself, but..

THE BASSES PEOPLE!!

HAS ANYONE HEARD / PLAYED THE BASSES???

justinw wrote:

justinw wrote:

roadness wrote:i'm curious as to the sound of the basses

me too
anyone played one??

i hate to quote myself, but..

THE BASSES PEOPLE!!

HAS ANYONE HEARD / PLAYED THE BASSES???

I did. Did a little tour w/one. Sounded really good. It sounded no worse than my Travis Bean, but it didn't sound better, and it did sound different. I like my Bean, so I didn't buy the Elec bass.

They are different, now, though. The one I played was a prototype.

i got some saving to do!

keep these in production for a couple years!

i'm having one built.

i'm waiting as patiently as i can.

when i have it, you'll get a glowing review of it.

I am left handed. but I play a righty guitar upside down (like a small child or retarded person might).
When I inquired of Kevin if I could get a lefty with righty junk - "we can do that." He's said this to almost every single idea I've had for my guitar (Even the most insane, inconvenient ideas).

Anyone who runs their company with a "we can do that" attitude: not crap.

I can't wait. I'll post pictures.

Jeremy wrote:I am left handed. but I play a righty guitar upside down (like a small child or retarded person might).
When I inquired of Kevin if I could get a lefty with righty junk - "we can do that." He's said this to almost every single idea I've had for my guitar (Even the most insane, inconvenient ideas).

Anyone who runs their company with a "we can do that" attitude: not crap.

I can't wait. I'll post pictures.

And he can do it, too. I provided a wood body, a fixed bridge that mounts into a sustain block, and a surface-mount vibrato. He crafted a 30" scale baritone neck with the two thinnest strings doubled a-la a 12-string. Up to 6 of the 8 strings can be run to the vibrato with only 2 to the stop tailpiece he custom designed, all 8 can be strung to the stop tailpiece, or any combination in between. I received the instrument with the intonation and (very low) action dead-on. This is, to my mind, no small feat.

As hard as it can be (and hey, I know!) be patient. It's well worth the wait!

Just letting everyone know that if youd like your pickups wound to a specific reading, it can be done no problem. The humbuckers are generally wound to 10-11.5k and the single coils are wound to 7.5-9.5k. Normal TB500s are 5-5.5k to as high as 6.5k. So with the splitable coils on the humbuckers you can get in the 5.5k range.

Hello again. Heres the first Custom bass and the first bass Im truly happy with. The electronics are an Ernie Ball active system and the humbucker has been modified with a steel base plate. The neck is 2 piece, consisting of an aluminum fretboard bolted to a hollow neck.

Kevin at Electrical Guitar Company (jimmyjames6 here) just sent me my new 6-string baribass.

Alder body. TV yellow with aged-looking clearcoat. Nice paintjob. The color is exactly what I wanted. No pickguard, so it will get fucked up pretty quick, but I don’t really like pickguards.

32” scale length--I'm tuning to E-flat, and I prefer the extra couple of inches for the lowest string. Nicely honed neck profile. Kevin cut the fingerboard off and chambered it to reduce the weight.

The body shape is modeled after Gretsch's Malcolm Young signature model. I liked the shallow horns. Kevin made it a flat, very slightly asymmetrical cutaway, which I like a lot and prefer to the scooped cutaways on the original.

Balance is perfect.

Pickups are Kevin’s custom split-coils. Deep bass, clear highs--really great clean, balanced tone. The single-coil setting is a bit pingy for bass/baritone, but it would probably sound swell on guitar. I will probably stick with the humbuckers pretty much always.

VVTT knobs. Front-loading cable jack. I slightly prefer front-loading, as it makes it easier to stand up the guitar on its butt.

My first baritone was a TB1000 I modified so I could get it down to A. I loved it and played it for several years. Kevin made me an all-aluminum baritone—I A/Bed those two guitars for ten seconds, and I sent Kevin the Bean in trade the next day. I haven’t thought twice about it.

This guitar is not quite that much better than my other Electrical. But it’s better. It’s better than a really great guitar.

It's only a matter of time before someone better known than any of us starts playing one of his instruments. I'm just glad I have mine early.