Flaxwood / Laine / 2012 / Gloss Black, Green Burst, Gold, Orange Burst, Tobacco Burst, Red Burst, White / Guitar
Vintage single-coil twang, Flaxwood-style
Soundwise the most Strat-like of our entire line, the Flaxwood Laine (laine = wave) is a small sensation in the making. Combining Seymour Duncan lipstick pickups with the ultra-stable Schaller LP Tremolo, the laine delivers chiming, bell-like cleans and beautiful overdriven tones ideally suited to everything from country and blues to funk and modern r'n'b. Equipped with a blender pot which gradually blends the neck pickup signal with that of the bridge pickup.
Body:
Material: flaxwood
Features: flaxwood resonating back plate
Neck:
Material: flaxwood
Neck joint: 3-D glued
Angle: flat
Scale: 25.5"
Radius: 12"
Frets: medium jumbo
Measurements:
- 1st fret: 43.5 / 20.5 mm
- 12th fret: 52.5 / 23 mm
Tuners: Gotoh SG360 HAPM; locking
Nut: Tune-X tuning system
Inlays: celluloid f
Shipped with string gauge: Elixir Nanoweb .010 - .046"
Bridge: Schaller LP Tremolo
Pickups:
- bridge: Seymour Duncan SLS-1 Lipstick Tube
- middle: Seymour Duncan SLS-1 Lipstick Tube (RwRp)
- neck: Seymour Duncan SLS-1 Lipstick Tube
Controls:
- master volume
- master tone
- blend (adds neck pickup signal gradually)
- 5-way selector switch
1. bridge; with blend
2. bridge + middle; with blend
3. middle; with blend
4. middle + neck
5. neck
- middle pickup is reverse wound with reverse polarity magnets
Flaxwood Oy, Finland
Deep in the northern woods around Joensuu in Eastern Finland, where vast misty forests abound, grows a very special tree...
...perfected by men of the Finnish timberland areas, whose hearts were full of music, and full of love for the wood from which fine musical instruments are made.
Seeing exotic tree species dangerously coming closer to extinction each day, they decided to act. Looking both to preserve and to innovate, they set out to develop a revolutionary new molded wood material, one that would resonate like the very finest of the fine traditional musical tonewoods. The sound produced was to be both warm and rich, yet the material also needed to be suitable for today's environmentally friendly production methods.
And so it came to pass, that a new molded wood material was born, and they called it flaxwood, a testimony to the warm magic of wood in a new, innovative form.
Flaxwood Guitars were born of a dream of making a better guitar.
A guitar with all the characteristics that make a difference to the most demanding player: full, rich tone; extended sustain; wide frequency response and dynamic range; trouble-free tuning and flawless intonation.
Rethinking wood as an instrument-building material.
Experienced luthiers and experts possessing decades of knowledge in both traditional guitar building and modern, advanced material technology put their collective expertise together to create an alternative to traditional tonewoods that near extinction. After years of research, experiments and good, old-fashioned hard work, Flaxwood Guitars has created a high quality, stable, and ecologically friendly molded wood material that can stand up to the high standards today's players have come to expect of boutique instruments. Now, we proudly present the fruits of our labor -- the new line of Flaxwood Guitars.
Flaxwood Guitars - tradition and high-quality handcraft in perfect harmony with revolutionary technology.
Where to buy
AUSTRALIA
CROSS ROAD GUITARS
Remco Mayer
37 Dayana Street
Marsden QLD 4132
Tel. +61 7 38058049
remco.mayer@crossroadguitars.com
website
AUSTRIA AND SWITZERLAND (REPRESENTATIVE)
Handelsvertretung
Thomas Specht
Mittelstr. 37
D-88471 Laupheim / Germany
tel +49(0)7392-150060
mobile +49(0)172-7288787
info@ts-audioline.de
website
FINLAND
DLX MUSIIKKI HELSINKI
Kirkonkyläntie 15
00700 Helsinki
Tel. +358 20 7282250
Fax. +358 20 7282259
info@dlxmusic.fi
DLX MUSIIKKI TAMPERE
Näsilinnankatu 22
33210 Tampere
Tel. +358 20 7282260
Fax. +358 20 7282269
tampere@dlxmusic.fi
ESPOON MUSIIKKI
Kaskenkaatajantie 5
Tapiola
02100 Espoo
Tel. +358 9 4555299
myynti@rabonnet.fi
GERMANY
LIBERTY MUSIC
Ernst Weinbach
Weinstrasse 79
67434 Neustadt
Tel. +49 6321 82369
Mobil. +49 177 2748526
liberty-music@gmx.net
ITALY
MESSIAH MUSIC ITALIA SRL
Alberto Meucci
Via S. Francesco n. 17
57123 Livorno
Tel. e fax +39 0586 800463
Mobile tel. +39 334 8166202
info@messiah.it
JAPAN
IKEBE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS STORE CO., LTD
Mr. Kenichiro Uranaka
Brian Shibuya Bldg. 3F
2-1 Sakuragacka-cho
Shibuya-ku
150-0031 Tokyo
uranaka@ikebe.co.jp
NORWAY
GODLYD.COM
Eidsvollgate 55H
4307 Sandnes
mer@godlyd.no
UNITED KINGDOM
BLACKHAWK MUSIC (UK) LIMITED
Witham House
Bull Lane
Gerrards Cross
Bucks
SL9 8N
Tel. +44 (0)7990 828779
elcadillac@gmail.com
UNITED STATES AND NORTH AMERICA
FLAXWOOD U.S.A.
Rick Nelson
28 Franklin Street
Newburyport MA, 01950
U.S.A.
Tel.: (978) 255 2334
Cell: (978) 764 1017
Skype: rickyn28
rick@flaxwood.com
Midwest Representative
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota)
John Amstadter
JAMM Distributing
(708)220-1350
hotjamms@aol.com
Southwest Distributor
(Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico)
Ed Klein
Klein's Fine Lines
1622 East Belt Line Road
Suite 201
Carrollton, Texas 75006-6373
(972)245-0230
(972)245-0030 FAX
ed@flaxwood.com
kleinsmusic@msn.com
U.S. DEALERS
ANDERSON GUITAR GALLERY
7185 West Main Street
Frisco, Texas 75034-4200
(214)387-4050
(214)387-8234 FAX
jen@andersonguitargallery.com
CRAIG'S MUSIC HUT
207 West Main Street #C
Grand Prairie, Texas 75050-5669
(214)450-3187
(972)237-9106 FAX
craiglangford@hotmail.com
websit
McBRIDE MUSIC
116 West Oak Street
Denton, Texas 76201-4134
(972)219-4942 / (940)387-5412
(940)382-8692 FAX
mcbride.music@verizon.net
If you cannot find an authorized dealer in your country, you can order a Flaxwood from our online store.
We are currently looking for distributors in several countries.
If you are a guitar distributor known for high quality and good service, or would like to recommend one,
please contact: kim@flaxwood.com.