Current:
GTH-1
Completed:
AST-1FB
First Act ME276 (resurrected curb-side find)
ES-5V
Scratchie lapsteel
Custom ST-1 12 String
JBA-4
TL-1TB
Scratch Lapsteel
Meinl DIY Cajon
Cigar Box lap steel
Wishing:
Baritone
Open D/Standard Double 6 twin neck
I had enough contemplated using bamboo flooring laminated together to form a neck blank. Some of the finish on the thicker laminate panels for benchtops etc is actually really cool looking, so I may still have a go at this.....in about four more completed builds time.
FrankenLab
Hand crafting guitars, because Death Rays are expensive.
Yellow lettering on a white background...argh! Been following these guys on facebook for a while, I like their aesthetic and their eco friendly attitude.
'As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll.'
Interesting use of bamboo. In the HiFi/Audiophile scene, bamboo is used for equipment racks and isolation platforms due to supposed energy absorption and resonance control properties. I would have thought this the opposite of what you would want from a guitar body material, ie deadening.
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I suppose it comes down to the process used to manufacture. I'd imagine it would be a question of how the base material gets treated and what other resins/filler/binders are used. something to research.Originally Posted by enikoy
FrankenLab
Hand crafting guitars, because Death Rays are expensive.
Bamboo is extremely dense, which should make it great for an electric guitar. The ultimate sustainable wood in all senses of the term. I'd want to get an idea of the weight, though. With density usually goes weight.
At least in an electric you don't want the wood to vibrate. You want all the vibration in the string to stay in the string where the pickups can turn the mechanical energy into electrical signal. My guess is that a bamboo electric guitar will sustain like nobody's business.
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Strictly speaking, bamboo is a grass, not a wood. [/pedant]
It's a very dense grass
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