Podcast 81: Dana Bourgeois on Torrefied Guitar Woods
The Fretboard Journal Guitar Podcast · Jason
February 13, 201532m 24s
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Show Notes
Call it whatever you like: torrefaction, thermo-cured, roasted or baked. Fact of the matter is that acoustic guitar companies are flocking to a process where woods are put in a specialized, oxygen-free kiln and essentially cooked, resulting in a stiffer, drier end product (not unlike the woods found in a 60 or 70 year old guitar).