|
Everything that is better by hand is made by hand - everything that benefits from machine is performed by machine.
The soundboard of the guitar is the most vital to the instruments acoustic performance. As such, all aspects of the soundboard are painstakingly attended to by hand. Redwood and cedar billets are split by hand to maintain the continuity of the fibers, otherwise lost by resawing in a mechanized process. The top plates are brought to thickness with scalpel-sharp hand planes in order to precisely slice the wood fibers to preserve the woods best resonances, whereas thickness sanding by drum machine would pack the natural fiber tubes with dust, damping their potential resonance.
The bridge, on the other hand, is also critical to the instruments performance, but a hand process can be prone to small dimensional inaccuracies, while the wood used can vary in weight, effecting the loading of the soundboard. The computer designed magnesium bridge of the Meritage-7 delivers 99.6% weight consistency, 50% improved energy transfer, and guarantees precise saddle placement for accurate intonation.
The Ebony bridge on the Popken-6 is hand-made with precision instrumentation, each exactly checked for consistent dimension and target weight.
|
|
Would you want your engine block made by hand or by a precise machine process?
What about an oil painting? By an artist or by algorithm?
I hope that it is apparent that my unique process is superior to either the purely traditional "all-by-hand" or the "state-of-the-art" completely automated machine process.
Adherence to Tradition - Attention to Technology
|
|
|
