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Is the Future of Composite Guitars... Wood?
Why scientists are making transparent wood
Stronger than plastic and tougher than glass, the resin-filled material is being exploited for smartphone screens, insulated windows, and more. https://www.freethink.com/hard-tech/transparent-wood An excerpt (bolds by me): Quote:
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pretty cool, but only "10 times tougher than glass" doesn't seem like it is stronger than carbon fibers at all.
needing 100 pounds of pressure to shatter it instead of just 10 is an improvement, but I don't think it takes even as much as 10 pounds to break glass as thick as the average guitar top. So 100 pounds to break this NuGlass in a guitar body would still happen with distressing frequency...just banging the guitar on a doorframe would probably be enough to shatter it.
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Imagine a wood guitar transformed into composite using this technique. Form the top and back, shape the sides, use the process and you're left with a composite body. Same with the neck and fretboard. Might be an alternative to vacuum-molded composites. |
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Ummm…. wood IS nature’s composite. Cellulose fibers in a lignin (resin) matrix. Man made composite is carbon fiber — or other fibers — in an epoxy or polyester matrix. Sorry to be “that guy”. A variety of fibers and binders will work, depending on the desired properties. Example: linen / flax fabric in polyester as done by Blackbird and called ekoa.
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Well, we are all aware of the fact that if we don't get our carbon fiber guitars home by midnight, they turn into ... wood guitars!
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The thing is, these non-wood guitars use molds and vacuum forming, which we all here know can be time- and cost-prohibitive to experiment with. Not so with this technique, which might just involve bleaching and re-infusing the wood with an alternative resin. This "transparent wood" looks to be a way in which the relatively well-understood principles of wood construction can be then "polymerized" (or whatever word you want to use) to create an instrument that is unaffected by environmental changes. And the R&D might be far cheaper than with, say, carbon fiber or eKoa. |
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