Have you been holding out so long? Have you been sleeping all alone? Boy, do we have just the thing for you! This 1976 Travis Bean TB-2000 is a treasure, and Mike pays special attention to the signature one-piece aluminum neck and center block. This unique design makes for incredible sustain that few wood-body models can match, despite still having the beautiful koa top typical of most Travis Bean models. Don’t leave us hanging on the phone. This beautiful Bean is going to go fast, don’t gather no moss! Make like a rolling stone and call, click, or stop in today.
Clifford Travis Bean was an American luthier and machinist from California. In 1974, he partnered with Marc McElwee and Gary Kramer to start Travis Bean Guitars, which made high-end electric guitars and basses featuring machined aluminum necks. This was an unusual design, departing from more traditional wood necked instruments. The aluminum center section ran through the instrument body, with the pickups directly mounted to the aluminum. The majority of these instruments featured solid koa wood bodies and humbucker pickups. Though praised for their sound, the aluminum necks made Travis Bean guitars heavier than other electric guitars. Models included the Artist, Standard, Wedge (rare), and TB500 (rare) with single coil pickups.
Kramer and Bean parted ways in 1975, with the former starting Kramer Guitars. The first series of Kramer guitars were redesigned aluminum-necked instruments but utilizing wooden inserts along the back of the neck to cut down on weight and provide a more traditional feel; these modifications also avoided patent infringement of Travis Bean's original neck design.
Around 3,600 guitars and basses were produced between 1974 and 1979. In the late 1990s, Bean teamed with master machinist/designer B. Kelly Condon and produced a run of 24 high end, custom instruments. These guitars and basses were aluminum-neck instruments, each machined from a 125-pound billet of 7075 aluminum. The pans weighed just over 4 pounds when finished and all were serial numbered and identified inside the pan.
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Featuring - Mike Larsen, Dave Piscotti, Phil Hunger and Alex Chadwick.
Songs Played:
0:00:00 - 0:01:38 - Miss You by The Rolling Stones
0:03:16 - 0:04:41 - Then Comes Dudley by The Jesus Lizard
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