PRODUCT REVIEW
FLAXWOOD
Liekki
BY PAT SMITH
Guitar makers have been searching for ways to
make guitars out of things other than wood for
quite some time now. From Torres building a
back and sides out of papier-mâché back in the
1860s, to Dan Armstrong’s plexiglass bodied
electric—not to forget masonite Danelectros,
graphite-composite Steinbergers and assorted
other things—the search for a stable, good-sounding material continues. Enter Flaxwood
Guitars from Finland.
These guys decided that by using “small wood
particles in a binding agent” they would avoid
the obvious problems guitars have with moisture
(or the lack of it), and a good, consistent sound
would be obtained, because the wood particles
would face randomly in all directions, so the
soundwaves would resonate with equal force in
all directions. They named the material flaxwood
