Electrical Guitar Company

[Woody Sound]

...sure looks an awful lot like Travis Bean to me...

[mr. beaumont]

I'd play one of those on a heartbeat.

[jazzshrink]

I never knew such things existed. Thanks for the intro!


Duane Denison Chessie model

Electrical Guitar Company | The finest aluminum instruments

[Boss Man Zwiebelsohn]

On December 31th 1999 my band was booked to play several open-air sets on Vienna's Prater next to the Ferris wheel at a snowboarding event celebrating the arrival of the new millenium. It was freezing cold, I guess -15° C, the police had confiscated the van originally planned for our backstage as their local control room and our instruments had to stay on stage all the time.

I wonder how an aluminum neck would have felt back then ...

[Woody Sound]

I wanted one SOOOO bad when they were first released. Too much scratch for my Arthur Treacher's fish frying wages back then.

Travis Bean, Aluminum Guitar Maker, Dies at 63 - The New York Times

[Mick-7]

It was freezing cold, I guess -15° C ... wonder how an aluminum neck would have felt back then.

Freezing cold, and on a hot day it could burn your fingers, and perhaps give you a shock if it got wet?
So definitely not an all weather terrain vehicle....

[Boss Man Zwiebelsohn]

Freezing cold, and on a hot day it could burn your fingers, and perhaps give you a shock if it got wet?
So definitely not an all weather terrain vehicle....

I read about those in a guitar book 30 years ago and they mentioned that the neck might feel cold. A very innovative concept nonetheless of course despite not being all-weather. And I would not play such a gig any more these days.

(Although I had the impression that the Lee Jackson all-tube amp I played at the time never sounded so good any more. Did anyone ever try to include superconductivity into amp building ...? )

@ Woody: IIRC correctly you were considering buying a Fender(-type) solidbody. This guy put a aluminum replacement neck on a Strat body:

[Boss Man Zwiebelsohn]

This model even combines two 70ies guitar material innovations: aluminum and acrylic glass. Electric Guitar Company King Buzzo (Melvins, Fantomas) signature model.

[ThatRhythmMan]

Aluminati in Asheville is making some amazing aluminum neck guitars. Their necks have a “hollowcore“ design that is proprietary. The V even has an all aluminum body. (Full disclosure: I am an authorized Aluminati dealer.)





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[Woody Sound]

@ Woody: IIRC correctly you were considering buying a Fender(-type) solidbody. This guy put a aluminum replacement neck on a Strat body:

Yes, thanks, still mulling over options.

WS

[pollo]

Never thought I'd see a thread about EGC guitars on here. I have an EGC 500 (aluminium neck, 2 x P90's and a mahogany body) and it's incredible...but it's 11lbs and my aging back complains some days.

[Doctor Jeff]

Aluminum is an interesting material for musical instruments. In the 20’s-30’s Alcoa made a lot of double basses primarily (as I understand) for schools, because they were durable, cheap to maintain, and wouldn’t be affected by humidity.

My playing partner Jon has one of those, refurbished and highly polished. Gets looks every time he plays it in public.

[AllanAllen]

...sure looks an awful lot like Travis Bean to me...

They produce the modern Travis Bean licensed guitars.

Really cool company, great guitars, easy to play. The one I played was regular Les Paul heavy.

However, the aluminum neck Kramer Flying V bass I had, that was so heavy sometimes my left hand would be numb the day after a gig.

[Jim Soloway]

I owned a Travis Bean when they first came out. I was touring crappy bars in rural Ontario playing four sets a night. I ended up hating that guitar. It weighed a ton (I am convinced that's what damaged my shoulder all those years ago) and the aluminum neck made tuning really unstable. It would expand and contract and it was in the days of tuning to a pitch pipe so it made for a lot of really long nights. I eventually traded it for a Guild Starfire IV.

[jazzshrink]

Never thought I'd see a thread about EGC guitars on here. I have an EGC 500 (aluminium neck, 2 x P90's and a mahogany body) and it's incredible...but it's 11lbs and my aging back complains some days.

[AllanAllen]

I owned a Travis Bean when they first came out. I was touring crappy bars in rural Ontario playing four sets a night. I ended up hating that guitar. It weighed a ton (I am convinced that's what damaged my shoulder all those years ago) and the aluminum neck made tuning really unstable. It would expand and contract and it was in the days of tuning to a pitch pipe so it made for a lot of really long nights. I eventually traded it for a Guild Starfire IV.

The point of the aluminum neck is literally the tuning stability because it doesn’t expand and contract like wood. lol. You must’ve had a dud.

[jads57]

Travis Bean and later Kramer cheaper Aluminum guitars were pretty awful and heavy! Did I mention HEAVY!!!!!

They also we’re not good at keeping tune due to temperatures,Lol!

[ThatRhythmMan]

The Aluminati V I posted above weighs 7.5 pounds and the white one is 8.2 pounds. All Aluminati guitars I’ve been around seem to have remarkable tuning stability. Aluminum guitar/bass necks have come a long way.


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[jads57]

Well at 67 years old I gave up on 8 lb guitars around my neck,Lol!
My Alan Holdsworth Headless models are under 6 lbs THANKFULLY!