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scott wrote:

How many Elmo's had to die to make that chair?

stackmatic wrote:How many Elmo's had to die to make that chair?

ALL of them!

Can I be your friend? That's one fine piece of guitar you gots there!

BTW thanks for the trade....Carvin for Laney. I ended up trading for a used Deluxe Reverb....only reissue, but still sounds great. Hope the Carvin is treating you alright.

I have just ordered a EGC Custom 500 from Kevin. I hope it will be as good as you've described his guitars.

Hey, I might be the first to own one in France!

Tom wrote:
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?

for guitars (the standard and the custom) he has his necks made in bulk. it's sort of a mix between a travis bean and a veleno neck. they're all hollow.

when i inquired about customizing a neck, he suggested i try the neck he's designed for this guitar and if i still don't like it (he was pretty sure that i would) we could work something out.

i think for the basses/baritones, he doesn't make nearly as many of those and they aren't fabricated in bulk. you're more likely to get those customized.


FYI - i believe Agostino from Uzeda/Bellini is using a EGC standard on the current shellac/uzeda tour.


jeremy

stackmatic wrote:

scott wrote:

How many Elmo's had to die to make that chair?

This is the best looking headstock I have seen on these so far. Actually, best looking one all around.... The hole looks less tapered on the bottom then normal, correct? Did you request that or did it come that way?

Also, and I know it is probably said somewhere, but what can I expect to pay for one of these? I really want one and I am seriously going to get a second job next month to pay for it. $1500?

About how long of a wait?

glueman wrote:

stackmatic wrote:

scott wrote:

How many Elmo's had to die to make that chair?

This is the best looking headstock I have seen on these so far. Actually, best looking one all around.... The hole looks less tapered on the bottom then normal, correct? Did you request that or did it come that way?

Also, and I know it is probably said somewhere, but what can I expect to pay for one of these? I really want one and I am seriously going to get a second job next month to pay for it. $1500?

About how long of a wait?

www.electricalguitarcompany.com

email him or call him. he's really nice and easy to work with.


jeremy

glueman wrote:

stackmatic wrote:

scott wrote:

How many Elmo's had to die to make that chair?

This is the best looking headstock I have seen on these so far. Actually, best looking one all around.... The hole looks less tapered on the bottom then normal, correct? Did you request that or did it come that way?

Yeah, there's pretty much no taper to it, or rather very little. It's like a big box. Much more similar in look to the Bean headstock, where the normal ones are closer to the Veleno headstock, in my opinion. Here's a closeup of just the headstock...



I didn't specifically ask for it that way, we just talked about how there needed to be room for 8 tuners, and he said he'd figure out how to make that work, and this is what he came up with. I love it. I much prefer this headstock shape to the more tapered one.

glueman wrote:Also, and I know it is probably said somewhere, but what can I expect to pay for one of these? I really want one and I am seriously going to get a second job next month to pay for it. $1500?

About how long of a wait?

Not sure what the going rate is these days. Nor do I know what the wait is, but I would guess it's somewhere in the "months" range, unless you're buying something that was already built, like the ones that he or Rusty sell on eBay from time to time. Totally just a guess there. I think it took maybe somewhere between 3 to 5 months to make my baritone, and then another 2 or 3 months for the painting of the body, putting on a new nut, cutting a new pickguard and putting in one of the TB1000 pickups, etc.

Also, and I'm being serious here, we're coming up on hurricane season. Not long before Katrina hit, there was a hurricane that went just about right through Pensacola. He had to take all the instruments he was working on (including my baritone) up to his folks place and stash them in the basement, and then it was something like a week before the shop had electricity again. Hurricane season is right upon us, and it is very much a day-to-day reality down where he's at. If we're all lucky, he'll be living somewhere cool this time next year, like Chicago or something.

glueman wrote:Also, and I know it is probably said somewhere, but what can I expect to pay for one of these? I really want one and I am seriously going to get a second job next month to pay for it. $1500?

About how long of a wait?

Once I confirmed that I definitely wanted a Standard, it took under two months to receive, and that included some messing around with shipping. The value for money is tremendous.

Trust the better musicians on this, but I feel I need to add my recommendation. The guitar is absolutely gorgeous, beautiful sounding, great to touch, and has improved my guitar playing through dint of just making me want to play it all the time. Kevin is a real gentleman, very friendly, honest and helpful. I asked him some very dumbass simple questions, and he was highly courteous in his response. Cheers Kevin!

I've placed my order.
It's a Custom with a dark espresso stain.
It uses the Mosrite body.
It is left handed.
I'm having him do a fancy pickup arrangement.
Instead of a switch between the bridge and neck pickups, there will be a pot so I can mix them.

I'm excited for this guitar.