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Todellisuudessa Gibson ym. muut suuret kuivattavat puitaan vuosia, kun oikea aika olisi vuosikymmeniä.
Uusimmassa Guitarist-lehdessä on juttu Hamerista, jossa Jol Dantzig puhuu siitä, kuinka he tekevät asioita, ja tässä suora lainaus artikkelista:
 
"The cool thing about what's happening at Hamer since it's been a Kaman company is the wealth of true knowledge and true research that's at our fingertips. We're not talking about a luthier who's built 200 guitars in his career and is tapping the wood and listening with his ears - there's a lot to be said for that and we do that but it's like that neck twisting and how long do you wait? Well, we know to the tenth of one degree the exact twisting schedule that a neck goes through because we've tested dozens of necks in the shop environment and a controlled environment actually using a digital clinometer (which indicates the amount of twist), so we have hard data to look at that either supports or debunks our seat-of-the pants luthier ideas. That's the beauty of being involved with Ovation and Kaman: they've really gone down that technological path like an aerospace engineer would. It can be a sobering thing. I think there are a few things that luthiers out there would be surprised to know-because they're just guessing at it. Here, we're not guessing, we have the back up."
 
Could you give us an example?
 
"We used to season our wood for years because it's a wive's tale that ?barn wood?that's been leaning against a barn wall for 100 years is the best to use or whatever. What we've learnt here is that there's a curve to as how much gain you can get - a point of diminishing returns - and what that's allowed us to do is to become more efficient while still remaining true to our overbuilding philosophy. I mean it's one thing to wait for two months for your neck - it's another to wait for two years! After a certain amount of time you're just wasting your money and time and your customer's"