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07.02.2007, 13:54

jussi

Message edited 07.02.2007, 13:56

Tsah!

Our aim here is to make the FW Forum a lively, inspiring online community of not only FW players, but of musicians from all walks of life, to share experiences, talk shop, trade views on music and guitars, argue the superiority of DADGAD over EADGBE... anything and everything.

To put a face on a name, so to speak, make your introductions here. Who are you, what do you do, how did you hear about the FW forum, what kind of music do you play, what kind of gear do you use?

Welcome to our neck of the woods!

Jussi
The FW Forum Äijä
jussi@flaxwood.com
- jussi

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09.02.2007, 18:12

lars_alexander

Am I the first one?

So, here I go.

I'm an Art student and play guitar, mainly electric, or rather exclusively. I started out on a Fender 72 Thinline, then built my own Tele (assembled and illustrated, that is), then after a while Strat. That one I love most, but in Frankfurt 2005 I was asked to test ... humho...: a Flaxwood guitar! And I fell in love. What is there to say. I want one - ever so badly :o)

I suggest you give one of your guitars to Uffe Steen, he's a great player and deserves to get his hands on one of your guitars...

Best of luck to you!

- lars_alexander

28.02.2007, 16:24

laxu

You don't seem to have any option to register yet so that people could post their own threads...

Anyway, I've had a Flaxwood Rautia for about 8 months now and have been extremely happy with it. Sounds great through pretty much anything, from reggae to metal. Have had two problems with it though: 1) The strap pins are worthless, they're just way too small to hold a strap well. Replaced them with much wider ones. 2) The output jack on mine has become loose. If I don't wrap the cable behind my strap (a good practise in general) it will fall out of the socket. I really have no idea if it can be tightened because I can't be bothered to unsolder it.

In any case I've liked the Rautia so much that I've contemplated getting the singlecoil model. Alas, my bank account doesn't agree so I've had to seek those tones from elsewhere.

- laxu

02.03.2007, 17:24

jussi

Message edited 13.03.2007, 13:18

Hey Laxu!

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated. Currently, our forum is undergoing some reprogramming, and unfortunately the bugs (such as the fact that you can't start a new thread, which is ridiculous) we just have to live with until SiteFactory gets to them. The forum will soon require everyone to register with a personal account to write (meaning everyone can have a personal avatar, a personal info page etc), so we're constantly trying to improve on the site. Hope it won't take much longer, sit tight!

As to your points --

(1) Duly noted. I forwarded your feedback to Veijo Rautia, our master luthier.
(2) I'll have to get back to you on this once I hear back from Veijo and check back with him; in the next couple of days in any case. I'll put it up on the forum.

Regards,

-Jussi / Flaxwood

- jussi

13.03.2007, 13:20

jussi

First, some of the forum bugs have been fixed. Now anyone can start a new thread. Still working on the rest of the changes that are in the works, we were told they'd be done early next week.

Laxu -- I moved your question to The Guitars section with the following reply:

Regarding your question about the loose jack, here's a remedy:

1 - unscrew the five screws that attach the Flax resonator back plate to the guitar body with a hex wrench
2 - carefully pull the back plate out with a hook of some kind (the hex wrench works fine through one of the six holes by the Flaxwood logo)
3 - tighten the nut on the jack (unless a wire has come off, the nut should not have fallen out; if a wire is disconnected, tighten the nut and resolder)

Hope that helped you out!

- jussi

13.03.2007, 13:58

jussi

Myself and the rest of Flaxwood team introduce ourselves in the Woodshed section of the FW Forum. Give it a look-see.

- jussi

31.03.2007, 21:53

kevin

Hi all,

My name is Kevin and I just got back from the Musik Messe in Frankfurt. I'm really impressed with the guitars. I mean ... WOW :) Only problem I play bass :p, but the vendor mentioned that you are developping the bass guitar as we speak. That would be so cool. The resonance was great on the guitar, the string just kept giving sound :) So imagine what a bass could do, and plus its weight is perfect. Not heavy like some basses are. I can't wait to try out the base. My bankaccount will prob not like it , but just by the looks of it, I already decided :)

- kevin

02.04.2007, 12:00

lars_alexander

Bass guitars by Flaxwood? How cool is that? Great news!

It was so good to see your guitars at the Musikmesse in Frankfurt again, and now with distribution in Germany. That's really cool. I'm opting for an EMG-equipped Flaxwood in that nice "oiled rock brown" colour option (if that's still possible: guy at the Messe told me it was). You had a Laine modell in your flaxwood gallery on the old site. You should bring these up again, and promote some other custom shop colour options as well.

So thank you again for yur wonderful guitars - the only ones that deserve to be called "innovative".

I hope you'll find one or two guitar heroes that will show off Flaxwood so some other guitar players, conservative bunch as they are, will give it a try and become enlightened - if I may say so.

And I will show off a Flaxwood, too - hopefully very very soon. Let's see...

The best of luck and a very good time to all of you!

- lars_alexander

02.04.2007, 16:44

kevin

Endorsements for us to promote Flaxwood ?? Then the bigger guys will wake up too :)
Mayones did it like that , really good handcrafted (but rather conservative) guitars. Lot of endorsements for smaller players ( local dudes like me), and then the bigger players will find it themselfs.
I really can't wait for a bass :) I'm already dreaming of the custom options lolz :)

- kevin

02.04.2007, 18:29

lars_alexander

Yeah, why not endorsements...? But then, I like these guitars so very much, I don't need to get paid to play them and tell others I love them... :o) I do that for free.

Well, not that I'd say 'no' to an endorsement deal... ;o)

- lars_alexander

02.04.2007, 20:17

kevin

An endorsement can also be paid as a serious discount :)
I don't need to get paid to play my future flaxwood bass, but a discount in exchange for some serious promotion would be cool :)

- kevin

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