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Re: New process for hardening wood

Author: JTJC
Date: 2022-07-11 03:16

Grenadilla was just an example. Take pine, with volume reduced by 80%, you’ve still got to start with a large piece of wood to finish with clarinet-sized piece to work on and it’s going to be heavy after the process. If it does weigh so much more and has to be machined thinner so a player can actually support/hold it over a period, there won’t be much material depth to put posts etc into. That suggest a different style of keywork would be necessary, maybe a sort of exoskeleton lattice/metal frame, with keys mounted/glued on it, rather than drilled into the body. High density material might require different machinery to cut it as well. Not so say any of this is impossible to overcome but it would require significant investment in new tooling, systems, wood processing.

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