On Wed, 7 Jun 2017 at 10:17, Ed Minch  wrote:

>
> 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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