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Langcaster Guitars
Made from 35,000 year old swamp Kauri wood (www.langcaster.com)
Re: Langcaster Guitars
The headstock's a bit off the wall but that body is gorgeous!
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Yeah, that was my though too. I think you'd get used to the headstock...a body like that would seduce you every time.
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I hope those trees were already dead. It should be a crime to cut down a tree that old...
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I'm suprised that tree isnt petrified by now.
the head of that guitar looks like a penishead, Langcaster = Wangcaster?
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Thats PERTY
There is no spoone
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by the way how much wold something like that cost?
There is no spoone
- The Matricks
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who's going to email them for a price?
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Langcasters go for around NZ$2000 to $2500, depending on the options. Joh Lang's work from all reports is very nice, though not to the point of masterbuilt or custom shopwork. I've played an earlier Langcaster and tho it felt great, it was as heavy as an LP and even with Kinman's didn't sound like a traditional strat.
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that is HOT!
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Yes, they were already dead. There were a bunch of Kauri trees found buried deep in swamps in the Northern area of New Zealand, so the would is fairly limited supply.Originally Posted by AcidBurn
However, Kauri trees are pretty large as trees go - although not super-tall they tend to have a very large girth. One of the old living trees in New Zealand contains enough wood to build ten 4-bedroom houses...
They take a long time to grow though.
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those are awesome guitars and god i wish they sold those pickups separatly
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I've played them. To be honest, they're a collector's piece, not a player's guitar. The wood looks nice, but it's very heavy and bright sounding. Unfortunately, Joh has a big thing about sustain. the guitars sustain well, but as in the case of many 70s guitars, the trade-off is heavy weight and bright tone with nasty upper mids.
That's a lot of money to spend on a guitar that sounds and weighs a lot like the worst of the 70s strats.
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