Lipe Guitars USA Brochure
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www.lipeguitars.com Lipe Guitars USA Brochure www.lipeguitars.com Mike Lipe for decades was creating, building, and customizing guitars exclusively for megastar guitar players. In the year 2000, Mike started his very own company Lipe Guitars USA to make his craftsmanship available to the general public as well. Lipe Guitars are High End Boutique Instruments which are handmade one at a time by Mike Lipe himself. The finest materials and highest standards of craftsmanship are used to bring you the best instrument imaginable. These guitars are designed to last a lifetime and inspire the best of a players’ creativity. In today's digital age, CNC operated machines have taken over, replacing the art form of guitar-building with a mass production guitar cloning process. Lipe guitars are one of the last representatives of a dying breed proudly caring the flag of genuine old school craftsmanship where guitars have individual soul and personality that can't be duplicated exactly the same. Lipe Guitars are recognized by their stunning selection of woods, tasteful musical tone, effortless playability, and feel that only a genuine handmade guitar by a Master can possess. www.lipeguitars.com Wood The wood is the heart and soul in a guitar. Aware of this fact, Mike personally selects the wood for each instrument with extreme care. The moisture content, stability, and acoustic properties are always double checked before use. Alder, Mahogany, Swamp Ash, and Korina are the standard woods used for the body core. The laminated tops are highly figured Flame Maple, Quilted Maple, Spalted Maple, Koa, Redwood, Walnut and Mikes personal favorite, Hawaiian Mango, which has become a Lipe Guitar trade mark due to it's incredible sonic properties and very extravagant looks. The necks are made from Hard Rock Maple, Mahogany, or Korina with large variety of fingerboard woods such as Ebony, Indian Rosewood, Madagascar Rosewood, Maple, Flat Swan Maple, and Quarter Sawn Maple. www.lipeguitars.com Pickups After years and years of painstaking research Mike has discovered that Amalfitano pickups are the best match for his line of guitars. Amalfitano are high end boutique pickups hand wound in the heart of Texas by Jerry Amalfitano. Jerry's pickups seem to amplify most accurately the true voice of the guitar without altering but complimenting its very nature. This is why Amalfitano pickups come standard on most Lipe Models; except The Ivo model which is equipped with Dimarzio Area Series, PAF 36th anniversary, or Vintage Minibucker. www.lipeguitars.com Hardware Most models come standard with Hip Shot Bridges, Tremolos and Tuners. Hip Shot is an American Company producing the finest guitar hardware made in the USA. The tuning stability, tone, and classy styling made Hip Shot an instant match with Lipe Guitars. The fully floating tremolo unites state of the art design and highest quality materials with super hard steel alloy ball bearing system to insure excellent return to pitch, accuracy, maximum tone, sustain, and durability. The stainless steel no wobble vibrato arm gives you a superb feel and years of reliable trouble free service. The necks utilize the Bruce Johnson single-two way truss rod, which is the best of both worlds. It has the better tone of a vintage single truss rod with the flexibility of a modern double truss rod. The neck joint incorporates threaded brass inserts in the neck butt which along with the stainless steel bolts and recessed neck plate creates much stronger contact point between the neck and the body with superior tone transfer, sustain, and rock solid stability. The listed woods, pickups, and hardware options above are strong suggestion based on extensive tests and lifelong experience. However, Lipe Custom Shop can meet any custom order different from the standard option according to the customer preferences to rare exotic woods, different pickup manufacturers, and different hardware etc.... www.lipeguitars.com Body Top Woods Koa The Koa adds a beautiful look as well as clarity and richness to the guitar's sound. It’s an oilier wood like Rosewood and denser than Mahogany. That dampens some highs in the attack and produces sounds more in the upper midrange than the highs. Works best with Mahogany and Korina. Quilted Maple Quilted Maple is not only beautiful but it produces singing highs with a tight low end. It sounds wonderful over Alder or Mahogany. Maple adds crispness to the mahogany, but the lows and low mids of mahogany are still as apparent. The open resonance of the Alder comes through with the sharper attack and brightness of the Maple on the top end. Spalted Maple Similar to Quilted Maple but it produces singing highs with a tight low end. It sounds wonderful over Alder or Mahogany. Maple adds crispness to the mahogany, but the lows and low mids of mahogany are still as apparent. The open resonance of the Alder comes through with the sharper attack and brightness of the Maple on the top end. Redwood Redwood responds with a crisp balanced sound with richness in the lows. The bass response is particularly round and full. Redwood is balanced, warm and rich with bright trebles. Walnut Similar to Koa, it has some of the warmth of rosewood and the crispness of mahogany. Walnut has less compression and combing of tones with Mahogany backs. www.lipeguitars.com Body Woods Alder Alder is light in weight with soft tight pores with large swirling grain pattern to it with harder rings and sections. That adds to the stiffness and the complexity of the tones. Alder has a strong, clear, full-bodied sound with beefy mids and excellent lows so it has a broader spectrum of tones. It retains more of the highs which are not harsh while leaving some room to the lows. It offers a decent amount of sustain while weighing less than denser woods. Equatorial Mahogany Harvested in Africa and Central America, open grained with large pores, it is fairly dense and constant. Mahogany has a more uniform grain pattern with medium to heavy wood weight. The constant density compresses the mids a bit and can be considered a thick sound, because it does still produce good lows and low mids is considered a warm tone but well balanced. There is usually good depth to the sound. Korina An African wood related to mahogany, its grains are similar and so is its sound, referred to as super-mahogany. It’s a fairly light hardwood with a fine grain with attractive long thin streaks. Korina has a sweeter midrange and responsive while warm, resonant, and balanced. It has great clarity, definition, and sustain. Swamp Ash Swamp Ash has huge, open pores with hard and soft layers with a broad grain. Basically it has a very rigid skeleton with open and softer pores throughout. It is both light and resonant across the whole frequency spectrum. It has clear bell-like highs, pronounced mids, and strong lows. www.lipeguitars.com Fretboard Woods Flame Maple / Flat Swan / Quarter Swan Maple: Maple has a unique tone, strong in the midrange with a sweet high end. It produces tremendous amounts of tight higher tones with most bass leaning harmonics and variations in pick attack are filtered away. Very bright and dense, Maple is highly reflective and will cut through when you need it and never muddy on the bass. Maple is good for overdrive with good harmonics. Ebony: Ebony has a crisp attack with a stronger fundamental tone than Maple. It has the density of Maple however the grains are more brittle with oilier pores. It has a tremendous amount of overtones in the pick attack that mute out shortly than to foster long sustain. Indian Rosewood: Indian rosewood tends to darken the tone a bit, adding warmth to the neck and generally to the whole tone. A rosewood neck will produce excellent sustain while also smoothening out the highs. Generally with greater sustain comes a brighter top end. This is not true of Rosewood. It mutes the high frequency overtones, producing a strong fundamental that still has the complexities of mid and low mid overtones. Madagascar Rosewood: Madagascar rosewood tonally is considered a kindred spirit to Brazilian rosewood, boasting zesty, articulate highs, deep lows and ample dynamic range, and rewarding players with rich sustain and complex overtones. www.lipeguitars.com Neck Woods Rock Hard Maple / Flat Swan Maple / Quarter Swan Maple Its tone is highly reflective and focuses more energy onto the body wood. It will have the tightest lows for the extended range. Low notes will have a sharp attack, plenty of harmonics, and excellent sustain. Maple is strong and stable, and it has less reaction from environmental changes than other hardwoods. Maple necks are less of a factor on the guitar’s tone and emphasize the body wood. Quarter Swan Mahogany Mahogany’s even density makes stable necks, and the open pores make the neck a little more responsive than a maple neck. The Mahogany will absorb a bit more of the string vibration and compresses the attack and the highs a little. www.lipeguitars.com Virtuoso Body : Alder / Equatorial Mahogany / Swamp Ash / Korina Body Top : Mango / Quilt Maple / Spalted Maple / Koa / Redwood / Walnut Neck : Hard Rock Maple / Quarter Sawn Mahogany / Korina Fretboard : Ebony / Flame Maple / Quarter Swan Maple / Flat Swan Maple Indian Rosewood / Madagascar Rosewood Headstock : 7 Degree Angle Nut : 1 5/8" Bone or Black TUSQ Radius : 12"R Fretwire : Dunlop Pickups : Amalfitano Bridge : Hip Shot Tremolo / Gotoh Tuners : Hip Shot Locking / Sperzel Locking Finish : Polyester Finish Case : G&G Hardshell Case Others : 2way Single Truss Rod w/ Brass Bar www.lipeguitars.com