I dont know if its been posted before but has anyone tried this?

[dem00n]

http://tonerite.com/

 

Its very...intresting.

[Witmer]

Hunh. So they're saying that an instrument mellows over time because it... vibrates when you play it?!?

 

Surely not. Surely it's seasoning of the wood?

[SGSpecialguy]

wow,, I never heard of one of these,, hmmmm

very interesting, this dude seems happy with the before and after,, I guess it vibrates for an extended period of time

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtDXnTGnNc8[/YOUTUBE]

 

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynt-t2YSeCU&feature=channel[/YOUTUBE]

[dem00n]

If i understand right....vibrations in the wood make the guitar sound better sort of like a 50 year old played instrument.

So yes you are pretty much seasoning the wood.

[retrosurfer1959]

There has been conversations for years about acoustic guitars opening up after years of playing and it is at according too many because of the vibration and movement of the wood during playing. Some tops are tighter and require it more than others Adirondack is very tight until it "opens up" as far as whether a vibrating block will do the same thing the jury is still out but a lot of people and even a couple major builders swear by it. Or maybe they were swearing because they bought it...

 

As weird as it sounds there some truth to it at least because there's some demonstrable differences in some of the older pre-war guitars that were played heavily vs. some that have just been stored the stored guitars never open up or gain the sweet tone that the older guitars are known for unless played.

[SGSpecialguy]

I wonder if it has ANY affect at all on electric guitars ??

[retrosurfer1959]

Nope nothing on electrics but they might enjoy it

[DAS44]

There have been quite a few threads on it in the acoustics section, some of which got prettly lengthy...

 

I'll edit this with links once I go find em

 

here's one

 

http://forums.gibson.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=32463

[deepblue]

My Alvarez Yairi come "pre-seasoned" from the shop.

[ZenKen]

Jeeeeeeezzzzzzzzz Have we really come to this? I think I'll get a relic'd guitar now. :-

[retrosurfer1959]

Maybe if you get a really strong vibration device and let the guitar bounce all over the place ypu can get both.

[ZenKen]

Maybe if you get a really strong vibration device and let the guitar bounce all over the place ypu can get both.

 

Now that's the kind of humor I'm talkin about.

[dem00n]

Just buy a vibrator and put it in the sound hole.

[DAS44]

Just buy a vibrator and put it in the sound hole. :-

Now that's ingenuity!