- Bond Electraglide
The Bond Electraglide was a
carbon fiber electric guitar manufactured by Bond Guitars between 1984 and 1985. It resembled a matte-black, 3-pickupGibson Melody Maker (although with the 1962 onwards double cut-away), with a unique stepped aluminum fingerboard (anodized black) instead of traditional frets. Pickup switching, volume and tone controls were completelydigital , powered by a large internal motherboard.The player selected pickups via five pushbuttons; volume, treble and bass were incremented numerically via digital rocker switches, confirmed by a three-colour
LED readout.The guitar required an external power supply pack and given the state of engineering at the time, was relatively bulky; it never really caught on in the marketplace and only about 1400 units were ever manufactured.Fact|date=February 2007
British guitarist Mick Jones is known to have used a Bond Electraglide with his band
Big Audio Dynamite in the mid 1980s.The Edge used his extensively onThe Joshua Tree , including the solo on "One Tree Hill", as well as on "Exit," and "Mothers of the Disappeared". [ Guitar World, 1987, Joseph Bosso] Will Sargeant from Echo and The Bunnymen was also an Electraglide user.Bond Guitars was set up by Andrew Bond (d. 1999) in
Muir of Ord , Scotland, in 1984. The company ceased trading in 1986.References
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