29/08/2024

Green Guitars

Lâg Guitars seek to reduce the environmental impact of the manufacturing of their instruments.

It focuses on two aspects: reducing the use of exotic woods and limiting the impact of the finishing processes.

BrankoWood

Created by Branko Hermerscee, a talented Australian scientist, BrankoWood is the result of an innovative wood treatment process called tropicalization. This process transforms wood from short-cycle pine forests, guaranteeing a sustainable approach while avoiding the use of endangered wood species.

Thanks to precise density control, BrankoWood not only offers the acoustic and aesthetic qualities of different exotic species such as ebony (Black BrankoWood) and rosewood (Brown BrankoWood), but also provides optimal wood stabilization, making it resistant to variations in temperature and humidity.

Perfect control of the tropicalization process results in a robust top with bewitching properties. With a balanced sound that reproduces both the sweet timbre of mahogany and the spectacular projection of spruce, our solid Pale BrankoWood top guarantee a unique sound.

Smoked Raw Eucalyptus

Used for back and sides, this wood has a raw look and feel, enabling us to radically simplify the finishing process and minimize its environmental impact, which translates into:

• Less varnish
• Fewer solvents released into the atmosphere
• Less sanding
• Less dust
• Less electricity consumption

The purity of raw smoked Eucalyptus guarantees exceptional resonance, magnifying and complementing the sound characteristics of the soundboards which its partnered with.

Tropicalization, cutting-edge technology

BrankoWood comes from a complex patented 5 stages technological treatment to obtain precise properties of hardness, density and stability.

1 First drying
The wood, received in the form of flat sawn boards, necessary for the subsequent compression process, is first dried until it contains only 10% humidity.

2 Pigments impregnation
The wood is then impregnated in pressure tanks into which catalytic and pigmenting agents are introduced.

3 Second drying
The wood is dried again to lower its humidity to 2 or 3%.

4 Natural resin impregnation
The wood is once again impregnated under pressure with natural resin from organic waste. Putting it under pressure allows the resin to completely penetrate the wood.

5 Compression
It is finally hot compressed, reducing up to 40% of its original thickness, to achieve the desired density.

The end result is a totally stable wood (5% constant humidity) which is not only perfectly resistant to changes in humidity and temperature but also to UV radiation and even termites.

BrankoWood in LÂG Guitars

Lâg has been using Brankowood across the entire range since 2015. We use it for the fingerboard, bridge and headstock, an important part of our instruments identity.

Driven by the success of this innovation, due to the wood stability, solid Pale Brankowood is now also used for the top of the new Sauvage guitars series.

Brown BrankoWood
Reproduces the look, density and tone of rosewood.

Black BrankoWood
Reproduces the look, density and tone of ebony.

Pale BrankoWood
Used for the top of our Sauvage guitars series, Pale BrankoWood is nicely figured, and brings both the sweet tone of mahogany and the projection of spruce.