Is your guitar torrefied?

[Triple-o]

Torrefaction, well that sounds a little better. Don’t panic, it’s probably not a bad thing. It’s away to make your guitar sound better today and not make  you wait around 400 years, for the wood to age. Torrefaction is a process to remove pitch, sugars, oils etc. from the guitar wood. Kind of like making coke, no not the white stuff, the kind steel mills used to use. Maybe they can reopen all those “Coke Ovens” near our steel mills for torrefaction. So, what do guitars makers call this process. These are the terms they use; Collins guitar say their guitar tops are “baked”, well that’s pretty close, Taylor guitars are  “specially aged” sounds like  they’re making  whiskey and Gibson boast “super sturdy” and Martin guitars say it’s a  “vintage tone system”. Vintage tone system, I like that one. Now you know, see it wasn’t so “torrefing”. Is that really a word?

Edited September 2, 2020 by Triple-o

[matonanjin]

I don't know about my guitar.  I think that my spine is torrefied🤔

[bwillard]

I've got a couple of Gibsons with torrefied fret boards.