NGD - Aluminium Flying V Content

BloodEagle

tony99 said:

in-fucking-sane!!

be cooler if they could have trapped something in the perspex, like a scorpion or something

I have to disagree, the cool thing about plexi guitars like this or the Dan Armstrongs etc are the fact that apart from the inner workings etc they are completely clear

andy1839

Love that!

proggy

That's one way to beat the Cites.

WezV

Sporky said:

Y'know what'd be ace?

Blue metalflake inside the lucite.

Yeah.

Nah.

fishtank 

WezV

Dominic said:

Lovely .........so much for "TONEWOODS" (load of nonsense".....this goes to prove it just like the Trussarts

Let’s see if anyone makes an acoustic top out of lucite before we write off the grade of wood that can actually be called “tonewood”

Dominic

Acoustics are a different ballgame

Drewman_Guitars

it’s s beauty indeed. can’t beat an aluminium neck. 

WezV

Dominic said:

Acoustics are a different ballgame

Indeed they are.  And you generally need a certain grade of wood to build them.  That wood can be called Tonewood.  It’s a useful term.

the issue is it’s been overused as a marketing term for all guitars.  You don’t need a special grade of mahogany to build electrics.  “Normal” mahogany works just fine.  It’s not tonewood, it’s just wood

 you can build both acoustics and electrics out of alternative materials.  Whilst this proves wood is not the only suitable choice, it does nothing to prove the body/neck material has zero affect on sound.

Drewman_Guitars

WezV said:

Dominic said:

Acoustics are a different ballgame

Indeed they are.  And you generally need a certain grade of wood to build them.  That wood can be called Tonewood.  It’s a useful term.

the issue is it’s been overused as a marketing term for all guitars.  You don’t need a special grade of mahogany to build electrics.  “Normal” mahogany works just fine.  It’s not tonewood, it’s just wood

 you can build both acoustics and electrics out of alternative materials.  Whilst this proves wood is not the only suitable choice, it does nothing to prove the body/neck material has zero affect on sound.

yes, some woods can produce a tone when struck, wood can shape the timbre of the instrument when used to amplify the resonance of a guitar but aluminium is musical, it’s a bell, it’s rock solid and capable of holding vibration and sustain way beyond what wood can deliver, it’s a lovely material that has science to back up its tonal qualities, and its final finish requires no snake oil at all in order to excel. 

WezV

Exactly. back to “the material has an affect”.

no point debating better or worse as that is just a preference.  (Maybe we should do that in a M&M thread)


i just find it odd when an example like this is used to suggest the material choice is unimportant to tone.

people do need to forget about wood species and understand the qualities that make a material work.  That could be understanding the general differences between pieces of mahogany with different grain, or the specific differences between different grades of aluminium.  

gusman2x

tony99 said:

be cooler if they could have trapped something in the perspex, like a scorpion or something

That's a fucking awesome idea!