Worth it.

I was so unsure about this purchase at first. It seemed like something you only play with, or use once, but it turns out to be quite useful. I don't need to explain how unique this product is, all I can say is this: Even if you never use it, it's an essential tool to have in your guitarist toolbox.
Stop thinking about it, buy one.

The Best

It's does everything I expected it to do when I am playing guitar and I learned some cool things with it came to a good use I just love it you want to sustain a string forever EBow is your tool !

One Of My Favorites

I've had my Ebow for about a year now. I received it as a gift and at first I really didn't know what to do with it, so it sat shelved for nearly 6 months. One day, I'm cleaning up, and see it. I decide to give it another shot. I was completely blown away! You can create BEAUTIFUL sounds with this. I use it with my loop pedal to get harmonic sounds, and it is one of my favorite toys. You get an excellent tool for a GREAT price, just buy it.

New Guitar Technique

The ebow produces unimanigable guitar sounds

An Instrument in it's Own Right

I bought the EBow out of curiosity, with hopes of using it in my composing, comping and improvising. After getting comfortable with the mechanics of how it works, I am still figuring out how to incorporate it into my playing but progress is being made. Get one if you like experimenting with violin-like sustain.

So creative!

I've been putting this thing through it's paces with some sound design work using various guitars - electric amplified, direct; acoustic electric, amplified, direct, and just mic'ing it acoustic. There's a lot of interesting and creative things you can do with it musically and texturally. The most usefulness I've found with it in musical context has been sustaining a single string while tapping melodies or chord changes on a lower string to create interesting harmonies. It's got a bit of a learning curve as getting to know the various placements and distances from the string can be very finicky and depending on the string thickness. The only reason i gave it 4.0 out of 5 is I just wish it were a little more versatile (being able to vibrate more than one string). Overall, any guitarist looking to expand their sonic palette should definitely get one of these!

PlusEBow

Words fail me when I think of how to describe my EBow. Thanks to Heet Sound and direct string synthesis I can get sounds out of my guitars that would be impossible without it! This unit comes with a cassette and demo booklet to get you started and they urge you to experiment.
The easiest thing to do with an EBow is to achieve infinite sustain, mimicing harmonic feedback. That's also just about the dullest thing to do, but believe me, it's still awesome! By bumping the EBow across strings you can arpeggiate phrases that sound like volume swelled arpeggios. You can alternate back and forth between two strings, ala "Shouts Of Joy" by Phil Keaggy. You can mimic string sections ala "Legal Kill" by King's X. Awesome stuff.
Get an EBow and learn how to use it, then get ready to take some really interesting twists and turns along the road of music.