Our guitars pass through the acclimation process and we maintain certain temperature level for our body wood and we do not want that we will take it back and forth from our acclimation room and the body wood consistency will be affected which cause to shrink nor crack.

During the body preparation of your guitar it went through our milling process, which involves kiln drying the wood to shrink the cellular structure. From there, the wood goes to our acclimation room, where the temperature and humidity are stable year round. How long it stays there varies on the wood’s moisture content; ideally we want it to be between 6-10% moisture content before it’s ready for the next stage. The acclimation time can vary between two to six weeks. You have to remember that we are working with a living, breathing piece of wood. If the wood is too wet, it will eventually begin to dry, shrink and crack. That’s why throughout our entire building process, we keep humidity at a constant level.

Once fully acclimated, the wood pieces selected will make their way to the laser room where on one of three lasers, a guitar top and back will be cut. Using a fiber-optic laser and computer programming to cut the shapes out, the laser machines provide accuracy down to 1/1000th of an inch. Once completed, the guitar top, neck and back make their way to a different building and another detailed process. In the case of our Alder wood, we have a certain weight and measurement as our goal, and by exposing the tops to this environment, the wood may both shrink and lose weight, or it may grow. Twenty-four hours in this room is the minimum, but it may take two or three days before the top is fully stabilized and all tension has been released.