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OldCrow

Jul 17, 2012
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Whiskey, MD
#1
Got this last week:

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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
 
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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.
 
#4
purfektstranger said:
Woah ..never seen one before. It looks cool.
How does it sound?
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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.
 
#5
two fingers said:
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.
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Pics first :D Ha ha, that's my favorite part about it, one foot back one foot forward.
 
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Mr. Lovejoy said:
How does the aluminum neck feel?
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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
 
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OldCrow said:
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
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0 degrees radius fingerboard and 1" at the 12th fret?

The hell...
 

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