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Finally, the marriage between traditional, no compromises American craftsmanship and space age technology. The stability of carbon fiber and the tone of wood combined gives you something more, a 3 Dimensional element of tone you never thought possible. Something which truly has to be heard to be understood.Handmade guitars, Handbuilt Guitars, Custom Guitars, Electric Guitars, Carbon Fiber, Graphite, Composites, Viper, Raven, SkunkWorks Stealth, Guitars, FVCG, Force Vector Controlled Geometry, RockMace Guitars, Engineered Guitars.
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Building great hand carved archtop guitars requires a higher degree of craftsmanship and creativity than most other style of guitar. Not surprisingly that only very few luthiers make archtops and even fewer builders make them with the grade of ornamentation and elegance as can be seen on the post war D'Angelico's, Gibsons and Strombergs.
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Since the first solid-body electric guitars (which weren't made out of wood either, think of the famous 'fryin' pan from Rickenbacker), luthiers have tried to come up with alternatives for using wood. Although wood has the looks, there are several obvious reasons for not using this material.
First of all, wood is a very inconsistent and inhomogeneous material. Beware of those dead spots and warped necks when you buy a wooden guitar!
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