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A Catalyst guitar is not what it seems at first sight. At first sight it looks like a conventional solid-body electric guitar. At first hearing you'll notice this is something completely different. In fact Catalyst guitars are a radical departure from not only wood but also from the composite materials used in the guitar industry up to this date.
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!
Secondly, wood is everlasting unstable. It will never stop moving when exposed to external tensions (strings!) and to changes in temperature and humidity. Wood that has been dried very well, still contains around and about 8 % of water. This percentage of water in wood will never stop fluctuating due to changes in the surrounding climate and thus wood will never stop moving.
Last but not least, there is the evironmental issue. Consider this: every second 5,500 m2 (!) of forest is destroyed. Since over the last 50 years more than half of all the forests on earth have been destroyed, it would make sense to look for alternatives. Although the music industry is not the biggest consumer of trees, it's not setting a good example either like other industries already have done (think of sports gear). Some say that wood is 'alive'. To us trees are alive ...
GH Services : BassLab Custom Guitars and Basses.
These amazing musical instruments are hand-made by Heiko Hoepfinger and his team at BassLab in Germany. GH Services is the exclusive dealer and distributor for BassLab Instruments in Canada and the United States.
Heiko uses his own high-tech composite material to create a strong monocoque structure, or hollow shell, throughout the entire instrument. The body and neck are one piece, so there are no dead spots and the tone is uniform all over. The light weight improves the ratio of string-to-body mass, which means that the acoustic body influences the sound quality of the instrument more than heavy wood, resulting in a bigger and tighter low end. And these instruments aren't affected by the weather - they stay in tune ...
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