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Langcaster ™ guitars and pickups made In New Zealand by Joh Lang sinds +/- 2000 Langcaster ™ guitars made from 35,000 year old swamp Kauri. Langcaster developed a special treatment to stop the solid wood body from cracking and it is coated with layers of epoxy, then several high gloss lacquer finishes are applied creating a hard high gloss surface. Langcatser guitars are made in Strat and and Tele shape with and with out a tremolo.--

The Kauri tree is the oldest and tallest tree in New Zealand and can be up to 20 mt in diameter and a height of over 50 mt. It can grow to be over 3000 years old and is a protected species. Swamp kauri refers to kauri timber which has been recovered from under the ground. It comes from forests which were buried by natural cataclysmic events long ago. Carbon dating has indicated that logs were buried up to 50,000 years ago. Leaves and cones are often preserved with the logs but these quickly deteriorate when exposed to the air. For the technically minded: at 12 percent moisture content the density of kauri is 560 kg/m3; the modulus of rupture is 88 Mpa; the modulus of elasticity 9.1 Gpa. When drying from green to 12 percent moisture content tangential shrinkage is 4.1 percent and radial shrinkage is 2.3 percent.

[edit] Langcaster Lo-impedance pickups with overdrive!

Lo-impedance pickups means longgg cables and No! loss of treble and a clean crisp sound and no hum. -- It has the widest frequency range ever! and a louder out put that standard pickups. Only 100 Ohm resistance and not the usual +/- 7000 Ohm you will find in other pickups. Push the button and you have a great sweet sounding overdrive with a pot to set the amount of gain. . Langcaster.com Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand.