ABALAM® LAMINATED STRIPS

Abalam® laminated strips are super-long strips made from our patented veneer ply sheets, and are priced per piece:

STRAIGHT STRIPS are 5.250" long X .050" thick, and it takes 13 pieces to do one edge on a Martin style dreadnought guitar.

CURVED STRIPS are 4.75" long X .050" thick X 4.921" I.D. (= 4 59/64” = 125 mm I.D.), and it takes 3 pieces for a typical guitar soundhole rosette.

Strips look best when cut across (rather than lengthwise) from an Abalam® sheet, which is the way we do ours. Advantages over the traditional style strips are numerous:

**Deeper and more consistent color, which will not sand away.

**Joints between strip sections are fewer and much less obvious or distracting.

**Computer cutting produces totally even widths and perfectly squared ends with no hand fitting.

**Allows new types of shell, or variations on old types, to be used: 20 selections, as opposed to 4 in traditional style!

**Breaks more evenly, and into smaller segments, when fitting to curved edges: will not break at odd angles, as it has no natural fracture lines or seams.

**HUGE reduction in installment time (75-90%!), at minimal additional cost. What’s it worth to you to be able to do 4-8 guitar tops in the time it now takes to do one, while at the same time improving the quality?