Thermally Aged Tonewood - Vintage Vibe or Voodoo?
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- Опубліковано 30 бер 2015
- Juha Ruokangas has pioneered using thermally aged tonewood in his guitars since late 1990's. He gave a lecture about the subject at The Holy Grail Guitar Show 2014. Enjoy!
Fantastic. Just got my first kiln-dried top. Love it!
Awesome. I've been trying to tell people about this for years...something I read in the late 90's...your reference?
I had a maple neck-thru guitar custom made (by a guy now called MAX) that had a center stripe of Ebony to get the strength I wanted in '78. My next one will be 'torrefied'. I now have a good reference I can point others to...THANKS!
Excellent talk, thanks for posting! I am just wondering what companies sell good torrefied/thermo treated maple for instruments in Finland? I cannot find a single source in the UK, and shipping from the USA/Canada is very expensive.
Hi. Yeah, that's the problem. Currently there is no good thermo treated maple available in Finland... We need to have our wood "custom treated" for us - and the threshold to have a new treatment is high because we need to have such a big quantity treated in one batch - so we don't have a possibility to sell our wood out either... I hope the situation will get better the coming years. There are ongoing projects to develop smaller kilns suitable for thermo treatment...
I would like to see a thermo treated guitar with true tempered frets.
Check Matias Kupiainen's Ruokangas (Stratovarius' Guitarist) signature guitar, then :)
the word you are looking for at 3:11 is "sap"...
This is science.I think he can manipulate dark matter.Great info.Thank you.
Incorrect! The process was invented in 1871 by John B. Dunham a pianomaker Patent #117393
Thanks for your feedback. That's interesting. I'm aware that wood has been treated with heat for centuries in different ways. The method patented in Finland I mention in this talk is referring to these patents owned by the Technical Research Center of Finland: EP0695408, JP3585492, US5,678,324, CA2,162,374
@@ruokangas It's a bit off-topic, but wood has been treated with heat for millenia at least and probably hundreds of thousands of years, maybe millions. It's likely wooden arrow points and other tools were hardened with fire long before the invention of flaked stone tools, but unfortunately wooden tools don't survive as long as stone tools so we don't know for sure.
People have been doing this for centuries to protect siding on their houses.
Thank you. Would you care to explain what kind a process is that? I mean, the one that has been done for centuries.
@@ruokangas Yes. The Japanese have been doing this process for centuries, it's called shou sugi ban charring the face of wood siding on buildings to preserve them against weathering, rot, and insect attack. Today's charring technicians burn each plank individually, then, depending on the desired finish, scrape it with a stiff brush and seal it. You can find videos on it here.
Thank you. Ah, ok, you’re talking about a completely different process. If you watch the video all the way through, or read this article, you’ll understand the difference: ruokangas.com/specifications/thermally-aged-tonewood/
How about a tone test/demo? Talking for 43 minutes is pointless.
Science behind a technical product is pointless? That's a dumb consumerist comment.
@@lvonh9388 I said talking is pointless. Show us a demo. You can misinterpret that, any way you want.
@@endezeichengrimm What don't you understand in the concept of a "LECTURE"?
@@lvonh9388 Nothing. It's a waste of time with no demonstration.
What don't you understand about "demonstration"?
@@endezeichengrimm I understand that a lecture is not a demonstration. You should too