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The Traditional Series
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From that angle, it sure looks like a veneer.
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Are they going to introduce a series made to pre-war specs?
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Cool how RainSong is playing us
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I’ll be playing them if a N3 normalization?
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A fine example of: how to get people talking without saying anything.
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Kind of like the final scene in The Sopranos...
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More information trickling out, and they're confirming the spruce veneer (as many had already guessed). Can't wait to see the whole thing!
https://www.facebook.com/notes/rains...6884721253178/ |
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Emerald got noticed.
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Apparently not, since that write-up says RS "developed the process." Leads me to believe that all these years that Emerald has been making CF guitars with gorgeous infused veneers went unnoticed.
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Rainsong says absolutely nothing about "veneers" and a lot about "thin spruce soundboard".
Quote: "fuse a thin spruce soundboard and unidirectional pre-impregnated carbon (pre-preg) in a single molding step". Quote: "an SFT soundboard delivers rich crystalline carbon sound subtly colored by spruce". The facebook photo shows a cutting template sitting on an uncut spruce soundboard on a swath of uncut pre-preg carbon fibre. The text hints that the new SFT soundboard may be a spruce/carbon laminate; which differs from their standard double-top carbon sandwich soundboard. I'm eager to hear about availability and pricing. |
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Hard to tell how thick the spruce layer is, just a thin sheet for cosmetic purposes or a thicker layer with enough strength to be structural. The Emerald process, by all accounts, is merely cosmetic/aesthetic. RainSong seems to be using the wood layer structurally.
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Possible, I s’pose, but I doubt that RS is going to compromise anything structural. Despite what textual spin they may put on it, I suspect that their process is much the same as Emerald. They just knew a good thing when they saw it and reverse engineered it, perhaps with subtle adjustments. Of course, I could be all wrong. Time will tell. Fun to speculate though, huh?
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Yes fun being a spectator in the speculations too... I likes it. I think it will be a fine one. RS knows stuff.
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