PSA-Want Crown Inlays?

[Steve Haynie]

Dots have a more rounded tone than crowns.

[kizanski]

Tone is in the fingers, hence "no inlays."

It has been proved by boo-teek independent labs that inlays interrupt the tonality patterns of your fretboard woods.

That's right: "tonality patterns."

I JUST made it up, but you know it will appear in some bullshit marketing for a guitar maker somewhere. Maybe even by a certain self-proclaimed "guru."

[KH Guitar Freak]

Tone is in the fingers, hence "no inlays."

It has been proved by boo-teek independent labs that inlays interrupt the tonality patterns of your fretboard woods.

That's right: "tonality patterns."

I JUST made it up, but you know it will appear in some bullshit marketing for a guitar maker somewhere. Maybe even by a certain self-proclaimed "guru."

Ed Roman...

[mirrorimij]

Somehow I don't think Kiz had Ed Roman in mind.

[Feynman]

I won't argue the roundness of the dots.

However, the crowns, their taper pointing toward the body, serve to finely focus the tonality pattern®.

This effectively channels more mojo into the pickups.

[kizanski]

I won't argue the roundness of the dots.

However, the crowns, their taper pointing toward the body, serve to finely focus the tonality pattern®.

This effectively channels more mojo into the pickups.

Ok, but by that rational, Victory inlays would spread it out into at least three different directions, making for a very weak, flat sound.

[Steve Haynie]

I won't argue the roundness of the dots.

However, the crowns, their taper pointing toward the body, serve to finely focus the tonality pattern®.

This effectively channels more mojo into the pickups.

Ok, but by that rational, Victory inlays would spread it out into at least three different directions, making for a very weak, flat sound.

That is only for the upward vibration. If you look at the victories you will see that they act as funnel for the downward vibration to create a stronger tonal integrity.

[Feynman]

You are partially right, but the real answer is a result of the dedication to excellence of this company and, interestingly enough, a bit of a history lesson.

I got this information from an inside source high up in the design salon. One day when Glen Danzig was doing his final checkout of one of the guitars coming off the line, he was strumming it acoustically, as he always does - it's part of his 14-step program to decide which pickups to put in which guitar (a policy he's had there since 1947 when he founded the company). He noticed a couple of interesting aural tidbits. First there was a subtle but apparent wolf tone; second, a bit of muddy crosstalk at a frequency range equally above and below's the guitar's tonality pattern.*

To make a long story short, by delicately removing two sections of each crown inlay, the guitar blossomed into a boutique wunderkind. This signaled the beginning of the end for the crowns...

Now that you understand the real reasoning behind this decision, the death of Boomerangs should be easily deduced.

* ©2007, FMIC.

[Guest Meshuggah]

Hey Mister Physics! Did you remember to carry the bum?

[Lockbody]

Greatest post ever.

You are partially right, but the real answer is a result of the dedication to excellence of this company and, interestlingly enough, a bit of a history lesson.

I got this information from an inside source high up in the design salon. One day when Glen Danzig was doing his final checkout of one of the guitars coming off the line, he was strumming it acoustically, as he always does - it's part of his 14-step program to decide which pickups to put in which guitar (a policy he's had there since 1947 when he founded the company). He noticed a couple of interesting aural tidbits. First there was a subtle but apparent wolf tone; second, a bit of muddy crosstalk at a frequency range equally above and below's the guitar's tonality pattern.*

To make a long story short, by delicately removing two sections of each crown inlay, the guitar blossomed into a boutique wunderkind. This signaled the beginning of the end for the crowns...

Now that you understand the real reasoning behind this decision, the death of Boomerangs should be easily deduced.

* ©2007, FMIC.

[zorrow]

Hell, Vernon Reid's Cali should then sound like a mess of disparate overtones!

[kizanski]

Hell, Vernon Reid's Cali should then sound like a mess of disparate overtones!

It does when HE plays it!

[zorrow]

Hell, Vernon Reid's Cali should then sound like a mess of disparate overtones!

It does when HE plays it!

Yeah man! That's it! Talk about getting inspired thanks to your instrument!

[hamerhead]

Those Tumbling Boomers give dots a run for the money. Yeow.

[BubbaVO]

Hell, Vernon Reid's Cali should then sound like a mess of disparate overtones!

That is an awesome Cali! Does an HFCr own it now?

[zorrow]

Hell, Vernon Reid's Cali should then sound like a mess of disparate overtones!

That is an awesome Cali! Does an HFCr own it now?

Is Vernon Reid a member of the HFC?

[Steve Haynie]

Is Vernon Reid a member of the HFC?

Vernon Reid was at either the first or second HFC open house event. He was quiet, but he did stand with everyone else and spoke with anyone who approached him.

[cmatthes]

He was at the first HFC event. He was in my group and he was very friendly.

[atquinn]

He was at the first HFC event. He was in my group and he was very friendly.

Was there a jam that year? That would have been awesome!

-Austin

[HAMERMAN]

That is an awesome Cali! Does an HFCr own it now?

Last I knew Vernon still owned it as well as several other Hamers (Ying Yang, E=MC2, Mummy, and something with a tree?).

[elduave]

Update-Orders for instruments with Crowns need to be in by 12/21.

[JohnnyB]

To save time, Hamer tried applying fretboard inlays by two craftsmen standing on opposite sides of the fretboard. It worked well with dots, less so with boomerangs.

[mirrorimij]

I think the neck for E=MC2 has been retired. I saw it hanging in New Hartford the last time I was there.