aren't those like $100,000+ guitars?Sloan wrote:I played some 1942 Martin at Chamber's Guitars in Nashville. It was kinda gay.
"new" martins
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I played a 60s Martin with gold, ivory and pearl in it. Felt the same as my $800 one... They were probly both modded by my guitar instructor, though.
If you think of god as a pair of pants, a spiritualist thinks he needs pants, in fact he wants pants but none of the conventional types of pants seem to fit just right, so he makes his own pants and is happy that his knees are no longer cold.-fibus
Environmental impact thing:
to avoid rosewood, they use Micarta for the fretboards - a highly engeneered (read: expensive) plastic which is extremely difficult to refret. Since it's a plastic, it's made with petroleum in addition to a host of other noxious chemicals.
Instead of bone for the nuts and saddles (most makers get this for cheap as a byproduct of the beef industry), they use Corian - another highly engineered substance made with more harsh chemicals. Part of environmentalism is reusing waste - the bone is just ground into feed or discarded anyway; all they'd be doing is preventing waste. Instead they manufacture a new product.
HPL is an efficient use of wood, but all the excess glue usually gets flushed into the nearest body of water.
Add to this that the alternative materials are ugly, sound bad, and more expensive then traditional standards, and you have true shite. It would be far better to just cut down the damn trees and then donate a chunk of profits to rain forest renewal (which would probably net more trees then would be cut down to begin with). The cheap materials also make the instrument more disposable (micarta cannot be, and HPL is difficult, to repair). CFMIV SUCKS.
to avoid rosewood, they use Micarta for the fretboards - a highly engeneered (read: expensive) plastic which is extremely difficult to refret. Since it's a plastic, it's made with petroleum in addition to a host of other noxious chemicals.
Instead of bone for the nuts and saddles (most makers get this for cheap as a byproduct of the beef industry), they use Corian - another highly engineered substance made with more harsh chemicals. Part of environmentalism is reusing waste - the bone is just ground into feed or discarded anyway; all they'd be doing is preventing waste. Instead they manufacture a new product.
HPL is an efficient use of wood, but all the excess glue usually gets flushed into the nearest body of water.
Add to this that the alternative materials are ugly, sound bad, and more expensive then traditional standards, and you have true shite. It would be far better to just cut down the damn trees and then donate a chunk of profits to rain forest renewal (which would probably net more trees then would be cut down to begin with). The cheap materials also make the instrument more disposable (micarta cannot be, and HPL is difficult, to repair). CFMIV SUCKS.