The Lean, Mean Travis Bean
Across the fruited plains of America, the cry goes up for high quality handcrafted instruments. In todays fragile environment, musicians clamor for choice wood and good craftsmanship in electric guitars, which traditionally are crafted of rare hardwoods from all over the world.
The Lean, Mean Travis Bean
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by Allen Hester
Across the fruited plains of America, the cry goes up for high quality handcrafted instruments. In todays fragile environment, musicians clamor for choice wood and good craftsmanship in electric guitars, which traditionally are crafted of rare hardwoods from all over the world. In reaction to the diminishing availability of such guitars on the market in recent years, many players have come to prefer older guitars for their superior craftsmanship and quality.
So when Travis Bean ventured that an electric guitar with a solid aluminum, neck was functionally superior in everyway to a wooden necked instrument, and when this same Mr.’Bean (remember. Les Paul s real name is Lester Poulfus) was bold enough to suggest that his instrument not only works better but has a genuine aesthetic appeal, the pickers peered out from behind thbir vintage Gibson and Fender Axes and said. “Oh yeah? Well, what makes that one better than mine?”