Saw this article in the LA Times @ a professor at the University of Maryland who designed and now manufactures a whole new guitar:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/ne ... 0346.story

Here is the web site, with lots of samples to listen to:

http://www.coil-guitars.com/

they sound nice, 27frets is a lil extreme, the specs look good, but im iffy on spendign a grand on a guitar that is prob not in all stores and from korea.

my prs se paul allender from korea cost me 5ooish and its one of my better sounding guitars.

i hope coil does good, but they have to lower those prices