Violin made of spider silk wins Mayor of London innovation award

maltingsaudio

Interesting

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_3-11-2016-12-30-14

Fretwired

That is interesting. I have a guitar made out of a resin developed at an Italian university called Sound Compound. It's light and sounds great - certainly sustains like my Les Paul. They also made violins - unfortunately musicians are a conservative bunch so it never took off. The company even made a hollow bodied jazz guitar.

fields5069

Fretwired said:

That is interesting. I have a guitar made out of a resin developed at an Italian university called Sound Compound. It's light and sounds great - certainly sustains like my Les Paul. They also made violins - unfortunately musicians are a conservative bunch so it never took off. The company even made a hollow bodied jazz guitar.

Is that a switch guitar? Made of "vibracell" IIRC.

Fretwired

fields5069 said:

Fretwired said:

That is interesting. I have a guitar made out of a resin developed at an Italian university called Sound Compound. It's light and sounds great - certainly sustains like my Les Paul. They also made violins - unfortunately musicians are a conservative bunch so it never took off. The company even made a hollow bodied jazz guitar.

Is that a switch guitar? Made of "vibracell" IIRC.

It was a Catalyst guitar .. Vernon Reid and Jan Akkerman had signature models

I have one of these:



And here's one of Vernon's guitars




The guy who owned Catalyst has set up a new company and refined the material even further. You can see his guitar designs here:

http://aristidesinstruments.com/gallery