Posted by Paul Paul
on August 15, 2006, 2:06 pm, in reply to "Cold smoke cured guitar"
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I am interested in this process. Can you give me a recipe?
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: Here's a little note of interest -
: I had been touring around for the past
: couple of years and found, after playing in
: a lot of crowded Indonesian clubs, that my
: guitar started to sound a bit sweeter than
: usual. I started to think about what might
: be going on that would cause this. After
: doing some experimentation in my lab back in
: the states (I'm a research biologist), I
: found that cool humid clove smoke, when
: infused into dried wood, imparts a
: characteristic into the wood that causes it
: to vibrate a little differently. In
: Indonesia, tobacco is more expensive than
: clove, so most folks there smoke clove
: cigarettes, and fill the bars with clove
: smoke. Anyway, after a long set of
: experiments I figured out a way to
: "cure" the inside of my guitars
: with a mix of clove and some other scented
: barks. The smoke and vaporized oils appear
: to actually stabilize the wood, and causes
: it to "open up" and become more
: tonally complex. I also ring out chords up
: and down the neck while it’s curing, causing
: the soundboard to resonate at different
: frequencies. This also seems to open the
: wood up along a wider frequency range. A
: cool side effect is that after being cured,
: the guitar sort of “breathes” when you play
: it; causing a sweet clove/cinnamon bark
: smell to emanate from the sound hole while
: it’s resonating. Anyway, I don't suggest
: you go out and do this to all of your
: guitars (I went through a bunch of trial and
: error experiments until I got it right), but
: it is interesting to note. Cheers, Shaymus.
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