Talking Titanium

Between January 15 and 18 in Anaheim, CA the largest music industry trade show is held.  NAMM attracts manufacturers, artists and other music industry people from around the world.  This provided a great venue for TiSonix to introduce several new products:

• Vintage ‘Ash-Tray’ bridges for tele-style guitars.  These have the same appearance ans other ‘Ash-Trays’, but they are machined from billet titanium for superior performance.  They provide a solid, stable support for either barrels or individual saddles.  TiSonix offers them in a 3 or 4-hole mount.
• Compensated Barrels.  Historically, Tele-style barrels have been unable to intonate all six strings accurately.  Getting it ‘close-enough’ has been part of the traditional Tele- headaches.   Now, TiSonix offers a Compensated Barrel that will accurately intonate all six strings and deliver that TiSonix titanium difference!  Unique to TiSonix is their compound-bias groove.  This provdes a groove over the slanted barrel the maintains a stright string path.  This prevents string breakage associated with other compensated barrels and does not provide unusual string coloration due to a crooked string path.
• Titanium Sustain Blocks for Tremolos.  Guitar players havelong known that titanium trem blocks provide greater sustain and purer tones.  However, they have been extremely expensive.   The modern manufacturing techniques of Tisonix brings a precision, oversized block at a lower price point that is affordable to more players.  It comes in the proper sizes to fit Floyd Rose and other popular trem systems.
• String Insert Blocks for Floyd Rose.  Players have been plagued with string insert problems for many years.  Original string inserts are prone to crack or ‘mushroom’ under tension.  Once deformed they may be extremely difficult to remove.  TiSonix solves these traditional problems by offering am Insert Block machined for heat-treated billet titanium.  These String Insert Blocks are guaranteed never to crack, break or deform - ever!  Not only does TiSonix provide an unbreakable part, you also get the superior sound results from using TiSonix titanium.

These new componets received a great deal of attention from luthiers, custom-builders and players.  You cna look for TiSonix titanium components to begin showing up as standard equipment on severl custom guitar builders finest instruments.

Premier Guitar Magazine came by the booth to check out the action.  You can see their video report here:

Premier Guitar magazine features TiSonix

To see some more of the action at NAMM, check out our additional reports.

John Bolin is proudly offering a limited edition, 30th Anniversary Guitar.  After supplying artists like Jimmy Page, Steve Miller, Lou Reed, Doc Watson, Albert King, Bo Didley, Joe Perry, Keith Richards & Ronnie Wood, John Bolin may be best known for supplying the outrageous guitars for ZZ Top’s Billy F. Gibbons and Dusty Hill.    John is famous for saying, “It’s about the music”.  So when it came time to create his special edition guitars, he chose TiSonix titanium hardware for the bridge, saddles and tailpiece.  We at Tisonix were please to provide custom laser engraving.  (Please note: the Blue color is not painted or applied - it is part of a proprietary laser combustion process.)

For more information about John Bolin’s guitars please check his website.

For more information about TiSonix’s ABR-1 titanium bridge and tailpiece please visit our webpage.

TiSonix components on Bolin's 30th Anniversary Special Edition.