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estebanana
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There’s a new kid on the block and they look very promising. I can’t post a URL for public use because I was selected as a VIP luthier to look at a sample website via a one time use code they gave me. They are going to open it to the general public in August, I was contacted by them to participate in a ‘virtual focus group’ to help them get the marketing information together.
I can tell you the company is called GRU Guitar Russia Unlimited
A few things they’ve developed are nothing less than miraculous. They offer the regular supplies we all need, but through advanced research and a funding from a private backer they pumped a huge amount of money and time into three main projects. They developed a proprietary process that I surmise involves chemistry and heat treatments that change normal Indian rosewood and similar species into ‘imitation Brazilian rosewood’ it not only changes the color of the wood, but the process creates a hybrid inexpensive modification to most rosewood to give it a set of tap tones density and sonic properties that are identical to Brazilian, but without the troublesome CITES issues, because it’s modified wood, not actually Brazilian.
It’s like meat grown in a lab I suppose, if they mold it into a burger patty it’s probably going to taste like a regular burger.
They’ve also developed a cold hybrid /fish/hide glue that comes in a tube that looks like toothpaste. It’s the best of both glues. It’s got a short open time to let you position parts, but it reacts with air to become set like hide glue in about 2 minutes. Then it reaches full strength in 25 minutes. You can glue on a bridge and string the guitar up in 30 minutes and out the door. It will revolutionize repair work. The new glue isn’t cheap. It’s about 90 USD for 10 ounces.
Lastly, and I was skeptic, they’ve developed stick on rosettes that are super thin and weigh less than a gram. You might not want to think about this, but optimizing a top to play to full potential might include taking off those few extra grams of rosette. These new sticker roses are printed with hologram technology so they look like actual wood and have the same chatoyant qualities that a real wood rosette has. They are printed on a synthetic paper stock that’s microns thin, as thin as maybe a French polish film, so under the finish it levels out around the edges of the rosette. But the outer rim is feathered very thin, so you don’t see and ridge line at the edge of the rosette.
Some of this stuff is like NASA or Elon Musk created it. I’m going to get some free samples of the glue, but they said they might give me a few rosette stickers in August. Imagine that!
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Date Jul. 29 2020 3:06:39
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aaron peacock
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Joined: Apr. 26 2020
From: Portugal
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RE: New Russian guitar supply outfit (in reply to Piwin)
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Ah, the famous Ленин – гриб story!
I'll bet that a mycellium-spiderweb soundboard will be strong AND thin, so there!
But, regarding the main automaton that seems to have been born from this thread, it's simply an unfortunate choice in acronym.
I think of how we commonly abbreviate "proof of concept", but I can't look at this acronym without thinking "peice of crap", which is sometimes also apt, with early revisions, etc.
Acronym choice...
Anyway, so heat-treated woods (do they do a sustainable ebony too?)
and a new glue review.
Sticker rosettes. Some of the rosette-making-processes here appear to dwarf the guitar-making process in complexity!
Will such a lot accept "progress"?
What are the generally known effects of an "unbound sound-hole" versus the usual bound version (what, is it 1mm soundboard with 1mm rosette +- when all fitted and finished?)?
I can only state that I have a very low-end Portuguese folk guitar that's unbound (no purflings/bindings/etc) with only a burned deco around the soundhole, and the guitar is generally the lightest guitar you ever held, extremely sonorous and "open", varying from boomingly loud to soft lute-like tones, normal tension, very dynamic... but I have no A/B, as the other guitars I own from the same maker are different models and the thought of "good stodgy shoes" comes to mind with at least one (heavily bound) flamenca, that nevertheless is bright and twangy when squeezed...
what are the factors for the soundhole and rosette and top tap tones etc?
but the outfit sounds nice, I suppose, and generally, besides whatever ones views on the authorities in a given country, I've never felt more at home or welcomed than with Russians, when in Russia, etc... I feel more "right wing yahoo" in the "mid-western USA" or here in the "Beira Interior" than I felt in Samara or Barnaul or Moscow or St. Petersburg etc...not that there aren't common factors (shopping for a chain-saw in either Novosibirsk or Minneapolis, for example...)
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