1993 Axis/Albert Lee

[John C]

Very cool,unique piece!

 

[lenny]

Awesome ,and thanx for that ....and Slav123 its not a custom so your good hahahhaaa..... Dudley is the Designer of that and many other Guitars not just EBMM either...he used to be with Valley Arts .... ...and is truly an EBMM not a custom built by someone OTHER than the EBMM crew......It says AXIS on it because thats what is was called before it was the AL...Very cool/different appointments for sure!! ...and very different from the AL we have today ...i too am interested to see if the neck carve changed from the original to what ALbert wanted ...or maybe it was perfect just the way it was .....Thanx Elroy ....i would still Love to see the rest of your Customs!!!

 

[1evh2nv]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing

 

[Slav123]

Awesome ,and thanx for that ....and Slav123 its not a custom so your good hahahhaaa..... Dudley is the Designer of that and many other Guitars not just EBMM either...he used to be with Valley Arts .... ...and is truly an EBMM not a custom built by someone OTHER than the EBMM crew......It says AXIS on it because thats what is was called before it was the AL...Very cool/different appointments for sure!! ...and very different from the AL we have today ...i too am interested to see if the neck carve changed from the original to what ALbert wanted ...or maybe it was perfect just the way it was .....Thanx Elroy ....i would still Love to see the rest of your Customs!!!

Wow, I didn't realize it had that kind of history. That's really cool. Thanks for the clarification Lonney!

Slav

 

[Spudmurphy]

Hey Elroy - Welcome to the ALOC too!!

 

[banjoplayer]

There is a great pic of EVH, AL and Morse on the cover of Guitar World from around 91/92 where AL has the pinkburst with the "Axis" logo on it.

couldn´t find it right now but have this one

 

[banjoplayer]

There's also a shot of EVH holding an early version of his sig model with the Axis name on the headstock.

 

[Colin]

i edited my post to include the info, spud.
it was made by Dudley Gimpel for Reeves Gabrels, Reeves already had a hardtail 'axis' and wanted one with a tremolo.

-elroy

Great post Elroy, any pics of Reeves hardtail?

 

[Big Poppa]

First off Elroy Im glad you have the guitar (sort of) but this is the dodgy side of making one offs for guys who dont really give a rats ass and give guitars to friends when we made them for the artist in exchange for exposure. Its water under the bridge Just making a point. The artists that I admire call us and say "Hey Im not using this...what do you want me to so with it?" Most artists sell them on ebay or give to friends

The AXIS al came about when Dudley and I had a lunch and were talking about balance points and why not take the strat balance points and do something wacky...it was for my personally but we ended up putting alberts name on it.....there was a all grey guitar somewhere called "Reflex" which was done at the same time....

 

[Colin]

The Reflex

 

[banjoplayer]

The Reflex

Thanks Colin and BP, great ! Seen the Reflex before on some "Open House"-pics. Isn´t it rather similar to the Silo Spec that came in the mid 90s?
btw. notice the Y2D with the vintage tremolo on the left!

edit: The Reflex - ok it seems like a neck humbucker and other than a vintage trem...

 

[Colin]

that Y2D with vintage trem is killer! If it was up for a Casey Lee Ball Auction I'd do my best to secure it

 

[GWDavis28]

Pictures from the EBMM Open House:

Axis/AL





Glenn |B)

 

[Colin]

Pictures from the EBMM Open House:

Axis/AL

I love that color!

 

[jcm900]

I love that color!

is there a vault there to see during the open house?

 

[Spudmurphy]

BP has mentioned the one offs that were built given to artists and have (for whatever reason) reared their heads many years later.
For us MM (and especially AL nuts!) this has been a great opportunity for us to feast our eyed on a little bit of EB history and I thank Elroy for that.
I remember not long after joining this forum, an AL appeared on EBay which had a set neck, a hardtail in black and OMG it was absolutely stunning - another example if my recollection serves me right of a proto AL that ended up on the market. That thread must still be somewhere in the forum archives and I'll have to spend some time looking for that.

Elroy, we'd love to see those other AL's too - any chance?
Spud

 

[Spudmurphy]

I love that color!

Colin - that colour is great - wouldn't it look great if there was one in a "thinned out" colour version- a la Fender butterscotch

 

[fatkatz77]

Elroy, very cool guitar. Interesting history behind it.

 

[ShaneV]

The Reflex

That Morse is just cool.

 

[Colin]

I remember not long after joining this forum, an AL appeared on EBay which had a set neck, a hardtail in black and OMG it was absolutely stunning - another example if my recollection serves me right of a proto AL that ended up on the market.

This one?