On Jun 6, 2017, at 4:22 PM, yorkshireman@y... wrote:
> Made with bog oak - 5,000 years old.
>
> He also said something about their being carbon fibre in it, and it having a
floating neck. I have no idea what all that would do, But I thought I may know
someone who does.
Richard:
Thanks - but I could not open the programme. Carbon fiber is the latest thing
- there are several guitars with molded carbin fiber bodies (there are even 3-D
printed ukulele’s). I have used carbon fiber rods glued into a neck to
stabilize it. In the 70’s - 80’s there were molded fiberglass bodies that even
Greg Allman played at the time - turns out they are hard to repair! I suspect
the carbin fiber guitars will be the same.
“Contemporary” guitars don’t have a huge market, with most buyer’s choosing
traditional designs. There are a couple of guys making the floating neck. Thing
to remember is that no one has done a double blind test on any of this stuff,
and famously, a paper mache guitar was mistaken for wood 50 years ago. They all
sound basically like a guitar.
However, the one trend that is here to stay in lutherie is the CNC machine.
Cutting an intricate inlay is fairly easy, but cutting the socket that fits
exactly is a skill that few have mastered - not any more! And once you
programme in the software to make a neck - then you can make a zillion of them -
and they look just like handmade necks.
It’s a different world
Ed Minch
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