Electrical Guitar Company Ken Andrews Prototype Series 5

If you know you know, Electrical Guitar Company Ken Andrews from the band Failure's Prototype for sale.

This was actually owned by Ken Andrews himself and used on Failures Fantastic Planet reunion tour, you can see it in the embedded video at 28:27.

It's a prototype and there's some differences between this one and the later production models.

The neck is polished instead of fully anodised, the fretboard is still anodised though.

The switch for the piezo system is in the middle of the 4 knob layout rather than the upper horn.

I've adjusted the controls to 1 volume 1 tone instead of 2 volume 2 tones, and moved the 3 way switch to the lower horn and the piezo volume control to the upper horn. These are easily reversible modifications.

Aside from that the specs are the same as the final production model.

''Ken Andrews. His name is synonymous with thick textured walls of sound. Being able to design and build an instrument with him was an incredible experience. The instrument itself is based on the all aluminum Series Five, but Ken has placed his divergent signature over our classic.

The 25.1” scale guitar features full black anodizing of neck and body with aluminum binding on the neck. Our thicker “Spencer” neck was tweaked, making it thinner while retaining the width of the original. The standard highest quality components are included along with the addition of a Ghost piezo system, which allows the mix of acoustic guitar sound with the flick of a switch. All of these features add up to a very special instrument that is deserving of bearing Ken’s name''

I've owned an EGC Tyranny and a wood-bodied EGC Custom 500 before so I've a fair bit of experience with them. I really love the ''Spencer'' neck profile having owned the hyper-thin regular EGC style necks, it's a really nice inbetween ''Fender C'' size.

Sound-wise it's brighter than the wood-bodied models but it having the regular EGC humbuckers rather than the wide-range style means it's still not harsh or shrill at all.

Does the stereotypical chunky but bright humbucker thing that works really well for all styles of music. You can stack gain at it and still retain a tonne of clarity which is really functional. The piezo system allows you to add acoustic touches as well which is really versatile.

Also it's black, the metal is anodised and makes it stand out in a really pleasing way.

These rarely come up for sale outside the US, thanks for looking!