I've spent the past few days getting familiar with my tenth build... a two string electric.

This is the first electric CBG I've done, thanks to the bitchin' electromagnetic pickup known as Stonehenge. I've known Ted Crocker has done some incredible work based on his photographs, but actually getting my hands on something infused by Ted is a good feeling!

I first plugged it into my Micro Cube, to test it and make sure it works.

This is the moment of truth... after this moment, you can release that breath you've been holding for a while now. The question is, will it be a relieved sigh or frustrated curse? Maybe a string of curses?

Well, #10 worked right off the bat, luckily. And it sounded good!

But...

...it would sound better...

...plugged into the Blues Deluxe!

And it did.

And it was very good.

Then out came the various toys... wah, rotovibe, distortion pedal... This thing is freaking incredilbe! And the tube tone makes it sound so sweet & loud... from slap/popping to heavy metal palm-muting, it handles it all with ease.

On a two-string, no less! And to think, I actually gave creation to this instrument.

The more I play it the more I realize that this, what I now hold in my hands, is The Guitar I've been searching for.

(Well, one of them, at least! My fellow G.A.S. sufferers will know what I'm talkin' about)

However, it's taking me a while to get used to playing. I'd been jammin' on my first CBG for a while previously, and this new one's scale length is almost an inch longer.

Damn!

All my notes have moved!

It's like that every time... a new instrument, especially an un-fretted one, will take some time to get familiar with.

There's something so organic in that... the initial string-up is when the instrument is introduced to you & your ears, and every moment after that reveals a further morsel of it's personality.

Some instruments take more time than others for their full personality to reveal itself... but they all take time.

And with that, I'm putting away the keyboard and pickin' up my slide!

-NTK