Electraglide In Black........

I remember seeing this in a guitar magazine review in the mid eighties. I was intrigued by the design of the neck. It was quite unique. The fretboard was made of alluminum, and instead of frets, the fretboard was made in a stepped design, some describe it as a sawtooth effect. The guitar also boasted state of the art materials and electronics.
.....................so what went wrong....................
Well despite all the technology and innovation, the reviews reckoned it was just a rubbish guitar. Bland and unexciting, the controls were fiddly to opperate and the need for an external power source limited it's use..................all fur coat and no knickers.
The company folded a couple of years later, popular opinion has it they only made 1000 guitars.
Personally I've never seen one up close. The only guitarist I've ever seen playing it was Mick Jones of Big Audio Dynamite.
I'd still like to try one.

Here's the wikipedia entry for it

The Bond Electraglide was a carbon fiber electric guitar manufactured by Bond Guitars between 1984 and 1985. It resembled a matte-black, 3-pickup Gibson Melody Maker (although with the 1962 onwards double cut-away), with a unique stepped aluminum fingerboard (anodized black) instead of traditional frets. Pickup switching, volume and tone controls were completely digital, powered by a large internal motherboard.
The player selected pickups via five pushbuttons; volume, treble and bass were incremented numerically via digital rocker switches, confirmed by a three-colour LED readout.
The guitar required an external power supply pack and given the state of engineering at the time, was relatively bulky; it never really caught on in the marketplace and only about 1400 units were ever manufactured. ^[1]
British guitarist Mick Jones is known to have used a Bond Electraglide with his band Big Audio Dynamite in the mid 1980s. The Edge used his extensively on The Joshua Tree, including the solo on "One Tree Hill", as well as on "Exit," and "Mothers of the Disappeared".^[2] Will Sergeant, John Turnbull, and Dave Stewart were also Electraglide users.
Bond Guitars was set up by Andrew Bond (d. 1999) in Muir of Ord, Scotland, in 1984. The company ceased trading in 1986.