New guitar innovation equipped with Seymour Duncan's

[Flaxwood]

Hi Guys!

(This can be considered as pure Spam)

We have created a new style of guitar. The guitar is made of natural fiber composites.

The acoustic properties of the Natural Fiber Composites are excellent.
Natural fiber composites that resemble wood both internally and externally are new "green" materials that are used to combine the solidity of natural fibers with the good humidity, wear and microbe resisting properties. Natural fiber composites are poison-free, recyclable and they can also be burnt in the same way as ordinary wood.

The most significant different between natural fiber composites and "genuine" wood is that the material was accurately customized beforehand to match the required properties and it was developed especially for Flaxwood guitars.

In short, Natural fiber composites used in making the Flaxwood guitar can be viewed as a moldable tonewood. We can also decide how this "tonewood" sounds.

Here is a link to our web page for the ones who want to read more about Flaxwood guitars: http://www.flaxwood.com/

Cheers
Ari
Flaxwood Guitars

 

[Erlend_G]

Re: New guitar innovation equipped with Seymour Duncan's

.......flaxwood? :smack:

 

[tone4days]

Re: New guitar innovation equipped with Seymour Duncan's

welcome to the forum

we have had other guys come on here telling us about their new, small mfrs products .... i think the line only gets crossed into 'useless spam' if you come on here to tout your product without STAYING to be part of the community ... so SPAM like this is ok as long as you are an active participant in useful discussions ...

so tell us, what are the tonal properties of these guitars? how do they compare to things we know such as mahogany with a maple cap ... or ash .. or alder ... how heavy are guitars made of this material compared to a guitar of tonewood of a simlar shape/thickness? how is there resonance properties? ... are there more or fewer 'dead notes' on the neck of this 'ebony-like' material?

tell us more

t4d

 

[ratherdashing]

Re: New guitar innovation equipped with Seymour Duncan's

I am always interested in new innovations in the guitar world. That is a really cool technology, and the guitars themselves look gorgeous! Thanks for posting that!

If they were available in Canada, I would love to try one.

 

[Erlend_G]

Re: New guitar innovation equipped with Seymour Duncan's

I'm with t4d on this one .

 

[Flaxwood]

Re: New guitar innovation equipped with Seymour Duncan's

.......flaxwood? :smack:

Hi Erlend_G,

Since You are from Norway, you can read more about it in the latest edition of MM-musikermgasinet. (They did test our guitars)


Cheers
Ari
Flaxwood Guitars

 

[Erlend_G]

Re: New guitar innovation equipped with Seymour Duncan's

Hi Erlend_G,

Since You are from Norway, you can read more about it in the latest edition of MM-musikermgasinet. (They did test our guitars)


Cheers
Ari
Flaxwood Guitars

Ari, thanks for the reply.

I hope you did understand the sarcasm in my post,
i weren't trying to be rude!

Well, unfortunately i don't know Musikermagasinet. But i really believe that your guitars must be great!

 

[tone4days]

Re: New guitar innovation equipped with Seymour Duncan's

i read your website ... very impressive ... i hope to have a US distributor near me soon so i can try one

i have a question about the guitar ... how do you expect them to age? ... in 30 or 50 years how will they sound? how will they hold up? ... we know that 50 yr old electric guitars still sound and feel and look great .... will flaxwood hold up the same?

t4d

 

[Flaxwood]

Re: New guitar innovation equipped with Seymour Duncan's

welcome to the forum

we have had other guys come on here telling us about their new, small mfrs products .... i think the line only gets crossed into 'useless spam' if you come on here to tout your product without STAYING to be part of the community ... so SPAM like this is ok as long as you are an active participant in useful discussions ...

Yes, I understand.
I don't know how active participant in the community I can be, but the first thing that comes to my mind is to ask in the future your opinions and advices.

so tell us, what are the tonal properties of these guitars? how do they compare to things we know such as mahogany with a maple cap ... or ash .. or alder ... how heavy are guitars made of this material compared to a guitar of tonewood of a simlar shape/thickness? how is there resonance properties? ... are there more or fewer 'dead notes' on the neck of this 'ebony-like' material?

tell us more

The material is heavier and harder than any of the tone woods You mentioned.
This why we use completely hollow structure. This way we can "adjust" the weight to optimum and control the resonance. The top is in some parts only 5mm thick.
The guitars weight around 3,2kg.

When it comes to the sound, sustain is longer than on any tone wood, dynamics is larger, attack is faster and there are no dead spots on the fretbord. The sound has more treble than a traditional electric guitar. (for the ones who don't like that, we have equipped the guitar with tone pot, hah )

On our page You can find some mp3 sound clips

All this sounds like a sales talk, but it can be proven in the real life.

(English is not my mother language as You may have noticed)

 

[Xeromus]

Re: New guitar innovation equipped with Seymour Duncan's

Looks very cool to me. Sad to say, but they won't be making guitars out of wood forever. These look neat.

 

[Flaxwood]

Re: New guitar innovation equipped with Seymour Duncan's

i read your website ... very impressive ... i hope to have a US distributor near me soon so i can try one

We don't have anybody selling our guitars in US yet but we are working on that.
We have two choices, sell straight to the shop's or throw ourselves in to the hands of an big importer who takes the money, hah

i have a question about the guitar ... how do you expect them to age? ... in 30 or 50 years how will they sound? how will they hold up? ... we know that 50 yr old electric guitars still sound and feel and look great .... will flaxwood hold up the same?

The material should stand the time better than wood, since no microbes can't bite it. The material developers have promised us 100 years for sure, but they gonna die in, let's say in 50 years so we can't kick their assess if they lied to us. hah.
Well it is modern technology which is used and they know what they are doing at the material developing department.

One good thing with this material is that it sounds open when it is new, like a vintage guitar.

 

[tone4days]

Re: New guitar innovation equipped with Seymour Duncan's

thanks for your answers ... i wonder if pickup choice will be even more crucial with a flaxwood guitar so as to tame the extra highs ... the value of the pots will be influential as well .. i'd be curious as to waht a CC sounds like in place of the C5 ... or a set of AIIPs ...

do the stop-tail versions have the same emphasized high end as the the vibrato-equipped models?

good luck
t4d

 

[beandip]

Re: New guitar innovation equipped with Seymour Duncan's

hmm....sounds interesting. I'd like to try one.

 

[Flaxwood]

Re: New guitar innovation equipped with Seymour Duncan's

thanks for your answers ... i wonder if pickup choice will be even more crucial with a flaxwood guitar so as to tame the extra highs ... the value of the pots will be influential as well .. i'd be curious as to waht a CC sounds like in place of the C5 ... or a set of AIIPs ...


do the stop-tail versions have the same emphasized high end as the the vibrato-equipped models?

good luck
t4d

I would not use the expression "emphasized high end", I would use flat frequency response term. These guitars have more bass and more treble compared to traditional guitar, it is kind of Hi-fi sound, if that is a right way to say it when it comes to guitars, since the vintage hype is in it's peak.

It is for the player to decide how much and what part of the flat frequency response he wants to use, but it is good to know that it all is there available if needed. Normally players don't need to touch the amp EQ-adjustments at all when they plug in a Flaxwood. (this is noticed often in the magazine tests)

Stop-tail piece with tune-o-matic is available as a custom shop order at the moment. The basic Flaxwood sound is in all the models, but of course the hardware and the pickups gives their characteristics to the sound.

One of the main things with these guitars is that You play faster than with any other guitar. The attack is very fast, which You will notice straight, if You are a professional level player. Amateurs normally look the Logo, and decide from that how the guitar is


Cheers
Ari
Flaxwood guitars

 

[ratherdashing]

Re: New guitar innovation equipped with Seymour Duncan's

I didn't see this on your website, but are left hand models available?

Thanks

 

[tone4days]

Re: New guitar innovation equipped with Seymour Duncan's

ah, i see ... very interesting ...

well, i dont care what the logo says .. if it sounds good and feels good and looks good and has a good value for the price, i will try it

best of luck with the flaxwood guitars

cheers
t4d

 

[Flaxwood]

Re: New guitar innovation equipped with Seymour Duncan's

I didn't see this on your website, but are left hand models available?

Thanks

This is our weak point...
To make a left hand model we would have to make all new moulds and it is very expensive.

Maybe we will make sg style model instead in the future.

 

[Flaxwood]

Re: New guitar innovation equipped with Seymour Duncan's

ah, i see ... very interesting ...

well, i dont care what the logo says .. if it sounds good and feels good and looks good and has a good value for the price, i will try it

best of luck with the flaxwood guitars

cheers
t4d

Thanks,

Nice talking to You.
It is Friday night here, got go out and grab a beer now :smoker:

Cheers
Ari
Flaxwood Guitars

The orange one in the pic is not painted. That is how the material looks.
It is stained colored with a high gloss finish.

 

[ratherdashing]

Re: New guitar innovation equipped with Seymour Duncan's

This is our weak point...
To make a left hand model we would have to make all new moulds and it is very expensive.

Maybe we will make sg style model instead in the future.

That's too bad

But yeah, if you make a symmetrical body design in the future, it won't be a big deal.

Thanks for the answer!

 

[stevie_bees]

Re: New guitar innovation equipped with Seymour Duncan's

Good luck, the website looks good. Do you have plans for different body types/shapes?