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Bond - Electraglide - 198x - finish uncertain

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Details:
  • I am not certain of the finish of The Edge's "Electraglide". Many that I've seen are matte black but I've seen red and green Electraglides too. And thus far, I've not seen a picture of The Edge playing his.
  • 21 Frets unique step fret design aluminium fretboard.
  • Carbon fibre one peice construction.
  • Pick up with active controls for out of phase etc LED push button electronic controls And see-saw Vol and tone controls.
 
Notes (about the guitar and it's use):
"I'm interested in abusing technology," he chuckles. "There's a revolutionary new guitar called Bond Electric Light (Electraglide), which is a very finely-crafted guitar without proper frets. Instead it has little serations. I tried to incorporate it into my playing armory and I found that it wasn't working, until I discovered the things you can do if you really sort of abuse it! I got fantastic results. Like the sort of heavy fuzz guitar at the end of "One Tree Hill", and the last three tracks on the middle of side two - that sound is the Bond. It's and English guitar. I don't know if they are made anymore [GW Editors note: They're not], but I got it three or four years ago [dating the guitar to around 1983/84]. Naturally, with us, we try to approach anything without preconceptions, we just control the room withouth the windows. Now, this Bond guitar, it wasn't meant to do what I do to it. Its neck is some kind of plastic, so it's more flexible than most wooden necks. I discovered that I can bend the neck so that the strings started to vibrate on the fretboard as I played, and - the guitar having no true frets - it created a different kind of effect. It was an attempt to sound obnoxious. You know, you can wind up a Marshall, and it starts to sound better the higher you go. Well, this was a transistor amp and the sound was compressed to the hilt. I had it very loud and it just kind of had that edge of a sound that you normally don't get. People complained bitterly about it!"
 
Appearances:
- Live: This guitar has not been used live.
- Recording: "One Tree Hill" (solo). "I got fantastic results. Like the sort of heavy fuzz guitar at the end of "One Tree Hill", and the last three tracks on the middle of side two - that sound is the Bond."
 
Source:
Guitar World // "The Leading Edge" // July 1987