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AngryGoldfish wrote:Smartest looking EGC I've seen thus far. Absolutely stunning.

Thanks Danny. That means a lot coming from a guy with such excellent taste in gear.

colin wrote:Wow, I love the little details. Leaving the edges of the fretboard, control plate and guard non-anodized was a great idea. Gorgeous!

Thanks! All the details turned out so well, really sets one piece of aliminum apart from the other. Like a nice layering effect.

sylnau wrote:Woah!!! That's hot.
How does it sound unplugged?

Sounds big and beautiful unplugged syl.

Bring your ass to Quebec City so we can have a jam.
And bring that lovely guitar.

So jealous.

haha me too, it's a beaut Shannon! Definitely one of the coolest EGCs I've seen, love the colour and hardware etc, you nailed it. Put huge strings on it and tune it down a bit, is that your plan?

Utterly gorgeous. I love the control plate.
Chessies generally have the thicker neck profile, right?

Just got word my own EGC is getting assembled, should be done after NAMM.

WOOOO))))

Spent the whole evening with the Chessie playing through numerous amps and pedals at ultra high volume and GOOD GAWD THIS THING FLIPPING RULES!

Setup is perfect after some minor tweaking, action is flawless, plays soooooo smooth. The custom ECG HBs sound amazing too. Humbucker modes are hot and crunchy and full but with superb clarity and bite, a nice middle ground firmly between lower output PAF-style and more high output modern sounds. The coil tap modes are killer too, no excess noise or volume drop, wound perfectly hot to handle the switching. Also, so many configurations and tons of available sounds. Gorgeous full cleans, almost like a piano (no bullshit) or snappy twangy tones and everything in between. And the high gain, oh man, the high gain! I'm falling in love fast and hard with this one.

Ryan wrote:haha me too, it's a beaut Shannon! Definitely one of the coolest EGCs I've seen, love the colour and hardware etc, you nailed it. Put huge strings on it and tune it down a bit, is that your plan?

Thanks Ryan! Def plan on using a beefier set of strings. I tried to get away with my normal 11-50 DR Tite Fit set in D standard or E flat and it's never gonna happen on that 25.1" scale. The Bigsby plays a big part in that though as the break angle isn't that extreme resulting in a looser feel. Gonna start with some 12s and go from there.

Just gotta mention, you were right about EGCs and their sheer awesomeness. I can't imagine anyone not loving what they ordered from Kevin. Once it finally arrives that is.

dub wrote:Utterly gorgeous. I love the control plate.
Chessies generally have the thicker neck profile, right?

Just got word my own EGC is getting assembled, should be done after NAMM.

WOOOO))))

Thank you sir. And congrats to you hearing yours made assembly. It's only like a 2 week wait from there.

And yeah, I do believe Chessies have a thicker neck than the Standards but I had Kevin bump the thickness up a little more than usual on mine. It's not a fat 50's style neck or anything but it's nice and beefy and comfy for my tastes. He can nail pretty much any neck spec since the neck is hollow, simply remove more material internally to keep weight down with the thicker necks.

Yea they are really loud acoustically could almost cop a steel guitar sound miced in a quiet room

The new EGC site is live. Prices have gone up in time for NAMM, and apparently they're going to charge a bit more for full customs.

The FAQ is hilarious. It's good that they're laying out their SOP though, should hopefully manage expectations going forward, and streamline orders a bit through the site.

Nice clean design, I miss the huge lists of guitar measurements on the old one though, that was really useful in figuring out whether I'd like the neck profile.

Yeah, those complete spec lists were a nice starting point. Kevin had no qualms about altering neck profile either, he made mine pretty chunky on request. Said it was no problem, just hollows out the middle a bit more to reduce weight and balance. Neck feels perfect to me, not even close to thin which is the general concensus on EGC neck profile.

Glad I got my custom order in way back when.
Nice to see the updates on the time frames. Still stoked to get mine.

Website is nice for sure.

I'm glad I got my order in when I did too, saved me a ton of money and allowed me almost endless design options. Just read in the FAQ that they haven't had a price increase since 2003, crazy! The Chessie was $2500 when I purchased but now it's moved into the new "Signature" line at $3200 and offers only polished and powder coat finish options. The rest of the specs are offered as designed, no customizing. I would've had to go full on "Custom" and paid even more to get what I did which makes perfect sense honestly.

The new "Classic" line contains the most popular models and is offered as "semi-customizable" but control configurations aren't included. Only finish and hardware options. That's def a bummer as again, you'd have to go "Custom", pay a little more, and wait a little longer.

That said, there's no other way to do what they're doing effectively esp considering the new Travis Bean line. Something had to give. The wait times are ridic cuz Kevin is cool enough to take on any request. Production times should def be decreased when things get rolling with this new setup. Be thankful if you're one of the lucky ones who already placed an order tho, saved a buncha money and have way more freedom regarding the design of your instrument.

New site looks nice. It honestly makes a lot of sense and it seems like everything will be EXACTLY laid out through the interface now. Really great to boost up productivity and guitars going out the door now. Because as we've seen it seems like a good half are custom and a good half are bone stock. So I'm glad that they're getting smart/streamlining stuff for the Classic Line. It makes a lot of sense, and hopefully it'll mean more guitars out the door for them!

$3200? That's just a few hundred less than my double-neck. Well maybe it'll slow down orders just enough so that they can get them to people in a timely manner, never on time but just possibly closer to something within the same calendar year of the due date

louderthangod wrote:$3200? That's just a few hundred less than my double-neck. Well maybe it'll slow down orders just enough so that they can get them to people in a timely manner, never on time but just possibly closer to something within the same calendar year of the due date

Yeah, prices have jumped quite a bit and options are decreased drastically on Classic and Signature lines. That's not terribly surprising tho. They've def been underpriced a long while now considering how amazing and customizable they are/were. Lucky for us.

I bet customs run around $4500+ now days depending on complexity. And wait times are now laid out as 9 or 12 month minimums for Classic/Signature and Custom lines respectively. That's more realistic for sure.

Holy Schnikes wrote:Website is nice for sure.

I'm glad I got my order in when I did too, saved me a ton of money and allowed me almost endless design options. Just read in the FAQ that they haven't had a price increase since 2003, crazy! The Chessie was $2500 when I purchased but now it's moved into the new "Signature" line at $3200 and offers only polished and powder coat finish options. The rest of the specs are offered as designed, no customizing. I would've had to go full on "Custom" and paid even more to get what I did which makes perfect sense honestly.

The new "Classic" line contains the most popular models and is offered as "semi-customizable" but control configurations aren't included. Only finish and hardware options. That's def a bummer as again, you'd have to go "Custom", pay a little more, and wait a little longer.

That said, there's no other way to do what they're doing effectively esp considering the new Travis Bean line. Something had to give. The wait times are ridic cuz Kevin is cool enough to take on any request. Production times should def be decreased when things get rolling with this new setup. Be thankful if you're one of the lucky ones who already placed an order tho, saved a buncha money and have way more freedom regarding the design of your instrument.

Fuck me, this is a huge change. I guess it was bound to happen. I waited too long to put my foot in the door. This has changes things—a lot. It opens the consumer up to a whole new bracket of companies, like Nik Huber, Fano, Suhr and other highly regarded builders doing amazing things. I think it's got to the stage where if you REALLY want an aluminium guitar then you'll have to bear the brunt of the cost and pay up, where before buying an EGC was an affordable way to attain an excellent custom instrument that should last a long, long time. This is just my opinion, but I feel as if it would have been better to keep the "Standard" and "Signature" range with limited customizable options at around $2500 and the wait time no more than six months, and then jack up the prices for complete custom instruments and the wait time 12 months. Obviously that can't be done simply because some bloke on the net says it's what may have been better economically for both Kevin and the us as the consumers, but maybe the wait time for non-custom pieces will gradually decrease as they bring in more money, and I imagine they will now with these new prices, even if much of it is going back out to their suppliers and to other expenses. $3200 for a Chessie is going to hurt... a lot.