| | | Top Story - July 09, 2015 | | | | |
| | SWISS MOVEMENT | | With its innovative Jane model, Switzerland's Relish Guitars makes a bold, forward-thinking debut. | "So many luthiers around the world imitate Les Pauls and Strats," says Silvan Küng, the 30-year-old co-founder of Switzerland-based Relish Guitars. "We wanted to do something that really felt like a new approach." With the company's first offering, which Küng and his partner, 30-year-old Pirmin Giger, call Jane, Relish is certainly looking at the electric guitar in a new way.
On first glance, Jane appears to be a standard—if sleek and modern-looking—instrument. But peer a bit closer and you may notice a shiny ribbon of metal that frames the body's perimeter, joining together its top and back. This is Jane's aluminum core, a ring of metal with another slab traversing its center. Attached at one end of the center bar is the quartersawn maple neck, and, at the other end, the bridge, essentially forming the guitar's crux. The aluminum core is then sandwiched between a top and back of pressed-wood veneer—offered in walnut, cherry and, shown here, ash (a.k.a. Ashy)—to create a semihollow chamber.
According to Küng, this construction design imbues Jane with superior resonance and sustain. "The aluminum frame acts like a triangle in terms of vibration," he says. "On top of that, the frame is connected to the neck at one end and the bridge at the other, with the strings traveling through it. So it's an incredible sustain network for the sound, which then resonates in the hollow body cavity between the wood veneers." | | Read More» | |
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