ty-lot wrote:Kevin told me that the IsotonaG line will include:
-IsotonaG,like the prototype with three P90s;
-IsotonaG I ,with one p.u.(P90 design);
-IsotonaG II.with two p.u's(" ")
....and also :
-IsotonaG Baritone,with three P90s,
-IsotonaG I Baritone.with one P90,
-IsotonaG II Baritone.with two P90s

-IsotonaG Bass,with two p.ups(typology not specified yet).

Sign me up for one of each, once I become rich.

I only want an IsotonaG guitar if it comes with a photo of Agostino.

All this time I just thought ty-lot was the maestro of fake-italian.

I think the IsotonaG looks great.

sunset_gun wrote:I really dig that Mosrite body shape. It that a wooden body?

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The IsotonaG is an all aluminum guitar,
to know all the precise specifics
please check the Myspace/Electrical Guitar Company.
Salut a tutt.
Ty-lot

tallchris on Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:41 am wrote:Why isn't Mr. Electrical setting up the headstock so it has a big "E".

I will not buy an Electrical instrument till the headstock says "E"!

ty-lot on Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:18 am wrote:the Electrical Guitar Company
brand new line called "IsotonaG",including the E (for Electrical)logo
digged in the headstock.

I guess I got one just a bit too early.

Isabelle Gall wrote:Kevin is extremely talented and an absolute gentleman to deal with, but i'm not sure that his talents are best served by making aluminium replicas of existing guitar models/shapes. Still, if he enjoys making them and everyone enjoys playing them then what do I know. I do know however that I would probably buy an EGC if it seemed more like it's own, unique thing. Couldn't you just buy the original non-aluminium guitar for *approximately* the same price (even with Beans themselves, until recently)? It's not like, say, the EMI licensed Chandler stuff or a Pultec based Manley...or maybe it's becoming that way.

Oh well how are your talents best served? You're telling the one guy making original and amazing guitars today that the world would be a better place if he just machined parts for McDonald's bathrooms, or whatever he does during the day. Weird. I know it's been pointed out already, but Kevin's designs are not Travis Bean copies. The demand of many people led him to making many guitars that were closer to TB500s, but it seems that he only did so reluctantly, as his very first guitars were all aluminum, and they seem to still be what inspires him most.

Also, my EGC, which looks nothing like a Bean, is the best sounding and best playing guitar I have ever seen and heard and felt. I am a better guitar player just by playing it. It shocks me that I'm actually able to say this with conviction (and it shocks Holmes even more), but it's true. And I still love my Bean, I really do.

ontrane wrote:You're telling the one guy making original and amazing guitars today that the world would be a better place if he just machined parts for McDonald's bathrooms, or whatever he does during the day. Weird.

Weird, yes. That you would think this.

ontrane wrote:It shocks me that I'm actually able to say this with conviction

Consider me astonished, captain.

Congratulations to Kevin for the new models, they look incredible.

apologies if i misunderstood

I would hazard the guess that Kevin's TB-style guitars are no more copies of TB guitars than the first few hundred Gibson guitars were largely copies of other guitars that had come before, and the first couple hundred Fenders were copies of preceeding instruments, etc. I think a manufacturer who starts out making something that already exists (i.e. a guitar) would be a moron to not at least *study* the ones that were made before. And what better way to study them than to try and recreate them, learning what the good elements that work are and what the bad elements that need improvement are. In the case of the TB's, Kevin's got a far better way of attaching the neck and body, which makes sense since he could learn from TB's single biggest mistake.

Regardless, as has already been pointed out, Kevin's made a range of distinctly unique instruments that there's no evidence of Travis Bean ever having produced. He's made a bunch of baritones of varying scale lengths, he's made a 5 string bass with a tremolo, a 12-string bass, guitars with all-aluminum neck-through-body assemblies and aluminum bodies... he's done a bunch of things that there's no evidence of Travis Bean ever having done. TB produced four different types of guitar (basically one type of neck assembly with four different wooden body / pickup config options), two different types of bass (two different wooden body options), and then went out of business.

Kevin's already long-since crushed TB in terms of diversity of instruments, and Kevin's a one-man operation that's been active only a few years.

I love the fact that my baritone could not reasonably be confused with any other instrument out there. It is, in the truest sense of what this word means, unique.

Forgive me if these are stupid questions....

What kind of pickups are in the Electricals?

Has Kevin designed his own?

Just curious...

Pure L wrote:Forgive me if these are stupid questions....

What kind of pickups are in the Electricals?

Has Kevin designed his own?

Just curious...

He makes his own. He can answer the design aspect.

Ben