Today I received my new Box Guitars SRB-640! It is a stunning instrument, extremely well conceived and constructed, and a pleasure to play. The guitar weights in at 7.7 pounds, nice and light, especially considering the wide neck. The body and neck are carved from a single piece of Kuri Pine, which has tonal properties similar to Alder. The fingerboard is a stunning piece of Wenge. Each set of six strings has two single coil pickups, volume, tone, and a three position pickup selector switch. The guitar has a mono/stereo switch; in mono mode both sets of strings share a single signal path while in stereo mode with a stereo cable each set of strings has its own signal path. The guitar sounds and feels great! I added a muting pad as I'll use the guitar exclusively for tapping. I may lower the action a bit but will leave it as is for a bit to let it adjust to its new home.

After the obligatory knob twiddling and switch flipping familiarization process, I spent some time exploring the concepts that attracted me to the instrument and I am not disappointed. While the SRB-640 does not cover the bass range like my Warr Guitars, which is a wonderful thing in its own right, the double guitar configuration is powerful, allowing for incredibly dense chord structures, incredibly wide chord structures, and patterns with sustaining notes across chords that are impossible on a six string instrument in standard tuning. One can certainly "play guitar" on this instrument, but that's just scratching the surface; there's much more to be mined from the concepts Stu has delivered in this way-cool instrument.

Now playing: vonFrickle, The 40 Fingers of Doctor V