NBD!
 

Got this last week:





I'm pretty terrible with reviews, but it's a Electrical Guitar Custom Series 500 with a maple body, aluminum neck, custom wound humbucker. If you're not familiar, the neck and bridge are one unit that's set in the body and "decoupled" from the wood with the pickup set in. Sounds awesome and plays awesome-r, but can be a bit cold in March :D

Woah ..never seen one before. It looks cool.
How does it sound?

If you had described it to me before I saw the pic, I probably would have been turned off. But that thing is really nice looking. I can't speak to the tone of course, but it's a looker. It's very much a one bass contrast between traditional and cutting edge designs. But it pulls that looks off well.

It's pretty versatile, with volume and tone all the way up it's reminiscent of a very aggressive P with bell like overtones (13th fret harmonic sounds like a bell being rung) as you roll the tone knob back you get more "traditional" sounds but it still has more bite and attack than normal. Also it's much deeper than my MIM J (not hard to do...) and add the bite it has it sounds scooped but still pushes my amp and cuts through like it has powerful mids.

Pics first :D Ha ha, that's my favorite part about it, one foot back one foot forward.

Exactly. Well stated.

Damn nice, makes me want to get one myself. How much did you pay?

That is killer. They make some really cool stuff, I'd love to play one.

Here's the page for the model, base price is down on the bottom:

http://www.electricalguitarcompany.c...s.ca7819d5.htm

Everything being custom that's a starting point, but I didn't pay much over that. Also for a custom instrument it's very reasonably priced. And Kevin is awesome to deal with and a good dude.

No love.

Very interesting

Dead sexy.

That is from the "Electrical Guitar Company," right?


Do you plan to play some doom / stoner / sludge / post-metal / post-ironic beardcore on it?

That's one of the freshest basses I've seen in a long time. :cool:

Yup, from Electrical Guitar Company and I prefer post-doom-beard metal personally, but different circles have different names for it.

How does the aluminum neck feel?

Depends on the temperature outside :smug:

Fret board wise it reminds me of ebony, maybe a little more dense feeling, the slickness of ebony with the hardness of maple. I adjusted pretty quick from the J bass I've been playing, though at the neck it's thinner at the nut than I'm used to

Here's the neck specs:
width at nut - 1.64 inches
width at body - 2.125 inches
thickness at nut - .75 inches
thickness at body - 1.00 inches
neck radius - 0 degree
number of frets - 20
scale length - 34 inches

That's nice - enjoy it. You'll have to keep us posted as time with it progresses.

0 degrees radius fingerboard and 1" at the 12th fret?

The hell...

That looks fantastic, and a lefty too even better!!
I hope you can post some sound samples of it sometime.
Congrats sir!