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Electrical :: Custom
The Electrical Custom is a wood and aluminum hybrid, which even though having a wooden body, still keeps with the all aluminum sound via the neck assembly being totally isolated from the body. Features ALCOA T6061 neck, Alder body, 3 ply pickguard, Gotoh bridge, Grover tuners, stainless steel frets and your choice of single coils or humbucker. These pickups are feature Alnico 5 steel based components, making a very bright and clear pickup. Available in a variety of custom body shapes.
Number of reviews: 15
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Style of Music: loud. quiet. aggressive. passive.
Comments: overall its a great guitar. it looks absolutly beautiful. natual finish, black pick guard, cream pick up covers. the craftmanship is amazing. tough as old boots as well. great playing neck, although i have to agree that it takes sometime time to get used to. considering its called the custom 500, perhaps a bean neck profile should be the default shape rather than the veleno one, as people are after this guitar probably because they cant get an actual tb500 bean, but as i say, really nice once your used to it. however the frets should be dressed and smoothed at the edge. i cannot understand why it is the case that they are not. im having them sorted as soon as possible as it is just not very nice compared to smooth edges. this is probably down to personal taste though.
i had problems with a lot of string choke at first. killed the top 3 strings so they werent sustaining even when open. thicker strings were needed. however when thicker strings were added the sustain is quite unbelieve - couldnt believe how long the strings were ringing out for. however this has considerably affected the playability, as i like slinky's. basically the nut needs work and the whole thing needs a set up, but as i say you will be truly shocked when its doing what its meant to - wow, what a sound. oh, and it stays in tune really really well. better than my bean. I wish the neck pick up was as high to the strings as the treble one.The pick ups are VERY powerful. ive had them breaking up a dr103 which is very impressive. nice sound, clearer than most, but i dont find them to be particularly the clearest of the clear to be honest. my 1000a's pick ups are much clearer and 'pingy'. its hard to explain as they are very present sounding, but they some how cut some of the high's that my bean gets. its a bit liked they are being smoothed off or masked. i get the impression that actual tb500 pick ups are clearer from the people ive talked to. you can hear that the highs are there and just cant fight through on my egc. prefer my bean 1000 pick ups to be honest. dont get me wrong the egc ones sound great but they certainly dont sound quite as great as bean pick ups, and this is strange becasue singles are usually clearer than humbuckers. i understand that the pick ups are not exact copies of a 500 pick up but just based on them, so this would explain that. ive heard someone else's egc 500 on the electrical website so i dont think its just my one that sounds this way. they definatly have their own sound, and it is a great one, but a 1000 bean will still probably get you closer to a tb500 sound than this will. bear that in mind kids. overall though, i really think its an amazing guitar despite what ive said, i just think someone needs to mention these things. i will never sell mine. its is absolutly brilliant, and agree with the great things other people have said. Also i cant imagine a better communication with a company than i have had with kevin. amazing. the guy is just a completly stand up motherfucker, and i think this company should get some kind of award for greatness. im very interested in trying the all aluminium 500. ive heard that it smokes a bean.
again my review is only not a ten because if you think your going to get a bean tone you will get in the same ball park but you might be in completly different seats. not a bad thing, just not what i expected.
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Style of Music: Rock. I enjoy listening to bands like Shellac, June of 44, Shipping News, The Jesus Lizard, US Maple...
Comments: The EGC Custom 500 is the greatest guitar I have had the opportunity to play so far but I will let an English speaking person describe it better than I would do.
My review is in French. It might be more useful to Kevin to help him to sell his guitars to French people.
Cette guitare est formidable. Kevin l'a réalisée selon mes souhaits, que ce soit au niveau de la couleur comme des spécifications techniques (radius du manche par exemple). La communication a été parfaite. Il a répondu à toutes mes questions avec gentillesse, même les plus stupides. C'est important de le signaler, vous pouvez y aller en toute confiance.
Concernant la guitare elle-même, à peine prise en main, on est surpris (voire choqué) par la minceur du manche. Ne vous inquiètez pas, on s'y fait en 5 minutes et le confort de jeu est époustouflant.
J'ai été également impressionné par le son de la guitare. Kevin y gagnerait à mettre des extraits audios en ligne sur son site. La finition est parfaite. L'artisan est très consciencieux et n'a pas hésité à retarder la livraison de quelques jours pour corriger une petite imperfection du vernis.
Ces guitares sont trop récentes pour que je puisse juger la durabilité d'une manière crédible mais ma Custom 500 a l'air bien solide et une plaque métallique est présente au dos pour éviter les craquements du bois bien connus sur le modèle original: la Travis Bean TB 500. D'après les nombreux commentaires que j'ai lus par ailleurs, cette copie serait meilleure que l'originale. L'ayant en mains, je n'en doute pas.
Une grande guitare!
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