About my guitar
This is my guitar. It's a new guitar, built by Andy Elliott of Elliott Guitars in North Carolina. Elliott calls this guitar the Elliott Guitars ET model. ET stands for Electric Telewacker. I think. Or at least, that's what I tell people ET stands for. The pickups in this guitar are Elliott's Telewacker pickups—an Andy Elliott original design. In terms of wack, these pickups wack just fine. The bridge pickup is hot and loud and bites like the swampy crocodile it is. Louisiana gumbo country marshy lowland bayou tone. The neck pickup is whiskey-smooth and buttery, balanced, warm-ish, glassy, and good. Darn good. The electronics are wired super well. The neck is straight and sturdy, chunky like I like my necks, and the fretboard is so well built. The plek job helps with intonation. On the headstock, there's a rosewood inlay above the logo that's just really pretty and nice.
Here's what Elliott has to say about their fretboard process: "Our fretwork is one of the things we are most proud of. We go to the extreme to make sure that your guitar is going to play the best it can. The fingerboard is planed under tension. The fretting process is done with epoxy fretting. We use a special blend of epoxy that makes re-fretting very easy without messing up your fingerboard. This process is used for multiple reasons. One of the advantages to this type of fretting is that you lose the hollow gaps under the fret that you find with the traditional way of fretting. In traditional fretting, with each fret you put on, it is like driving a wedge into the fingerboard, which causes back tension on the neck. With epoxy fretting, all of these issues are eliminated. The epoxy under the frets helps to transfer string vibration throughout the neck to the body, and relieves all stress and tension on the neck that occurs with traditional fretting. This results in a stress-free neck, which allows the truss rod to work properly and to adjust the neck accurately."
Find a guitar that brings you joy each time you open up the case. Don't settle. Save your money if you need to, play everything in the store, leave with something that truly inspires you.