How do you feel about aluminum necks?

drgonzo1969

drgonzo1969

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I have been looking at aluminum necks for a while and recently discovered Aluminati Guitars. They seem pretty killer. I wont be buying one anytime soon (maybe sooner rather later if I land this job I interviewed for) but I was wondering if anyone here has experience with aluminum necks. Electrical guitar company stuff is cool too but super expensive and they dont have an option to just buy the neck afaik. Aluminati neck I want is $1,099 but they have some slightly less attractive and less expensive ones on reverb. anybody know of other sources for aluminum necks?
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Nebula Ultralight 3x3 Polished Aluminum Guitar Neck

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Edit: Electrical Guitar Company does sell necks for $750. they website just sucks ass to navigate
 
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I have seen people casting necks on youtube. that seems like a pain in the ass and I am in Chicago so thats not an option. can you buy a block of aluminum roughly neck shaped and sand/grind it down?
 
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found these too. these look nice and are a little cheaper.
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Bolt-On Neck SBS - Guitar

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this one has a richlite fretboard. hella sick.
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I know nothing about this, but I’ve noticed Jason at the Fuzzlord effects YouTube channel runs these, and I’ve wondered what the deal with them is.
 
Would look pretty rad on that blue burst chibson….

But I guess that’s a set neck? I told you I know nothing about this.
 
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Haha that WOULD look hella sick. But alas the blue burst chibson is a set neck. But if I buy a chibson and it has a shitty neck… I would totally rip the neck off it and bolt one of these on there. SOLID IDEA! I like where your heads at haha
 
I'm a big fan of aluminum necks, although I've only played EGC's (machined from a solid billet). So I have no idea what one of those ultra light alluminati necks would feel like. They have pretty incredible sustain they're really fast to play on. Unsurprisingly very heavy.

I find I don't play mine as much as my telecasters because the weight while seated distributes a bit weird (super neck heavy). But the feel is totally unique and really nice.
 

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If you're interested in getting the quintessential travis bean sound you'll probably get closer with TB-style pickups and any neck with ss frets than you will by using an aluminum bolt-on and keeping everything else the same.
 
I think ECG are one of the only ones that have some hollow necks. I believe it's only the 22 fret 24.75" models.
 
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I cant find the weight listed on any of these necks hahaha. Aluminati has a new ultralight model but they dont say how much.
 
I emailed baguley guitars about their hollow 25.5 necks. They got right back to me and said their necks average around 1,000-1,100g
 
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I don’t have any first hand experience with them but the builder mentioned in an interview that he is ALWAYS open to custom work, whether or not it is cost effective for the client is up to them. The price also seems about right and he was coached directly by one of the neck-builders from EGC

As far as if it’s worth it… honestly if I had 900 dollars to burn and I had all of my other guitar-gear bases covered… hell yeah I’d buy one! It just looks so cool.

I forget which demo rabbit-hole I was down and sound-wise it seems that it makes more of an impact with cleaner sounds than something super dirty. I also think the tonal differences (if any) can be achieved with a graphic eq and compressor, which are had well-below the 1k-ish mark of these necks

…they do look super cool though!
 
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