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When Ed Roman builds guitars,
Neck Stability is the
Prime Directive. You Can Buy Ed Roman Necks at this link
Absolutely. Ed Roman's Custom Shop treats all raw woods with a special stabilization & wood preservation process to withstand climate changes. Ed Roman's stabilization process reduces shrinking of the wood in dry areas and it reduces swelling in humid areas. Building a guitar in Connecticut, as we used to do is quite different than building a Guitar in Las Vegas. As such, our Guitars can be shipped all over the world with the same stability and consistency in each area. Some guitar makers do not take such precautions. We have seen many guitars built in drier areas become stressed out when the end user resides in New York. In the case of Acoustic guitars I only recommend instruments that are built in the Pacific Northwest. I have seen guitars built in Southern California behave much like lower cost Mexican made guitars. For example, Taylor guitars in El Cajon California has had many years of problems relating to finish cracks, top cracks and other problematic issues. In fact I had more problems with the Taylor guitars than I was prepared to deal with when I had my Connecticut location. The wood should be treated early on so as to allow it to dry. We dip each piece for about 120 seconds or so, which allows it to penetrate deep to the grain. We also use only quartersawn wood for our 1500 G necks. Dipping the neck in heated oil, is another one of our little tricks for facilitating deeper penetration into the grain. Sometimes the customer does not like the way the neck looks when that process is done. Our principal competitor dips all their necks for 3 full minutes. This insures no warranty problems but it fills the pores up with too much oil. When and if you decide you want a satin finish on the neck, the oil will make it very hard to sand to a 1500G neck satin finish.  Perform a Simple Test Adamantium
Truss Rods The story of the Adamantium truss rods is a closely guarded secret. Ed Roman literally had to break into the 4th underground level of the Pentagon to acquire the chemical compound formula. He then had to construct a time machine to go back to the 40's to spy on it's inventor metallurgist Dr. Myron MacLain. Roman was obsessed to find out the secret of keeping the process of manufacturing stable enough to avoid destroying the planet into a cataclysmic vapor cloud. If he destroyed the planet, there would have been no customers left to purchase his guitars. He would have gone broke & died in the poor house!!!! To gain the necessary components he had to build a starship and travel 400,000 light years to the distant reaches of the Pulsar Galaxy to get enough raw materiel to build 100 truss rods for his Abstract Guitar line. To do this in one lifetime he was forced to design the Abstract Equation which he evolved from the Dymaxion Dynasty of ancient Egypt. Simply put the Abstract Equation creates a slight time shift in the Universe allowing a network of black holes to open and shut in varying high speed sequences. This allows the traveler to travel incredible distances and actually get there before he left. To acquire a map of these endless pathways Ed had to use the time machine one more time and go back to ancient Greece, He had to scale Mount Olympus and gain an audience with Zeus, Using his incredible salesmanship and persuasive gift of gab. Ed Roman actually conned it out of Zeus, He promised to give Zeus the Golden Fleece, This was to the amazement of his wife Hera who said it was probably a Golden Fleecing !!!! She was just about to put a curse on Ed but he quickly parasailed off the top of Mount Olympus thereby avoiding her screams, vile epithets and of course the deadly curse.
The Definition of Adamantium MacLain began experimenting with the process that created Adamantium as a young scientist in the employ of the United States government in the early 1940s. Assigned to create a super-metal with which to build tanks, MacLain labored for months, experimenting with various iron alloys. One of his experiments utilized the rare meteoric ore now known as Wakandan Vibranium. He tried to fuse the Vibranium to the iron alloy numerous times without success. Then one night when he dozed off, some as yet unknown factor entered the process, and permitted the fusion to occur. Upon discovering his success, MacLain poured the molten metal into a disc-shaped mold. The disc, once solidified, has proven to be the most impervious object ever created on Earth. MacLain turned the discovery over to the government and it was given to Captain America to use as his shield. Neither MacLain nor anyone else has ever been able to discover what was the x-factor that entered the process, or has been able to fuse Vibranium with another metal. (The unknown iron-Vibranium alloy of which the shield is composed resembles True Adamantium, although Adamantium itself contains no Vibranium,) Over the following decades MacLain experimented, attempting to duplicate the process that create the shield. Finally, in recent years, he succeeded in developing the process by which the substance known as True Adamantium is created. True Adamantium is nearly as strong as Captain America's shield, and is, for all practical purpose, indestructible. The degree of impermeability varies directly with the thickness of the Adamantium. A direct blow from Thor's hammer, conveyed with the thunder god's full strength, will slightly dent a solid cylinder of True Adamantium. A sufficient mass of Adamantium could survive a direct hit from a nuclear weapon. Adamantium is created through the mixing of certain chemical resins whose composition is a United States government secret. For eight minutes after the resins are mixed, the Adamantium can be molded into a particular shape as long as it is kept at a temperature of 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. After this brief period the process of creating Adamantium is completed. The extremely stable molecular structure of the Adamantium prevents it from being molded further, even if the temperature remains high enough to keep it in liquefied form. Only a device celled a Molecular Rearranger can alter the form of hardened Adamantium. The United States government has shared the secret of Adamantium's composition with certain of its allies, and the secret has also fallen into the hands of various criminals, such as the Constrictor, who has made special weaponry from Adamantium. Wolverine possesses artificial claws made of True Adamantium and his bones have been fused with Adamantium in an unexplained manner so as to greatly increase their tensile strength. The outer portion of the robotic body of Ultron is also composed entirely of True Adamantium, although Ultron's inner mechanisms are not. Adamantium is extraordinarily expensive to produce. Therefore, certain parties who wish to use Adamantium on a large scale have resorted to utilizing a similar but somewhat weaker compound similar to True Adamantium called Secondary Adamantium. Although Secondary Adamantium is still far stronger than even titanium steel, it can be destroyed by sufficiently great amounts of force. Blastaar's energy discharges and the vibratory force created by the Overkill Horn have both proved able to destroy Secondary Adamantium. The sentient computer known as F.A.U.S.T. had a casing made of Secondary Adamantium which Thor and Iron Man managed to destroy. The Red Skull and the original Hate-Monger had a dome of Secondary Adamantium constructed to protect their island fortress but the dome was destroyed by the vibratory force of the Overkill Horn and by powerful incendiary bombs. Ed Roman & his small band of merry men & crazed luthiers in their insane search for the most insdestructable metal in the universe finally succeeded where all others had failed. And They All Lived Happily Ever After. You Can Buy Ed Roman Necks at this link
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