What's wrong with High Pressure Laminate?

[BrentDomann]

Looks crap and sounds like plywood too. Repairing them is a PIA as the glue line is poly resin and not much bonds to them well. I've seen a few of the necks pop off HPL bodies.

Haha! That's as clear a response as I'd ever expect from a polite Englishman! Plywood seems like it would be (structurally) very useful for beater/campfire guitar bodies - much better than HPL anyway. Why would someone use HPL?

 

[Chili]

Just tell us if you actually got to torpedo anything other than target buoys . . . or kill dolphins with sonar!

Hey, maybe that was why that fishing vessel was so close, maybe they follow the trail of dead dolphins floating in the ocean . . . . mmmm, sushi

My dad got to go to the North Pole. He has a picture of Santa reading a Playboy, which I guess was pretty racy for 1974 . . .

I did get to shoot one live torpedo, but sadly, it was at a target. Sorry.

Okay, here's one story:

We were entering teh med through the straits of gibraltor. Normally we might pass through on the surface to better keep track of traffic, but this time we were on the hunt, so we went through submerged. We weren't too deep, but deep enough not to really worry about scraping the bottoms of the surface ships. Because the straits are a very narrow passage, we couldn't really track any ships, no room to manuever to perform any TMA. Pretty much all we knew was that they were all in a line either entering or leaving the med. We'd see them in front on the sonar screen, hear them as the pass by overhead then on to the next one. So, we knew where they all were...

Except this one ship. He was next in line and showed up on sonar, right in front of us just like the rest. When we got close to him, we could start to hear his screw whooshing through the hull, which probably wasn't a good thing. Then the sub started oscillating up and down as the compression waves off his screw flexed the boat. It is amazing to think about the kinds of forces acting on the sub to make it flex like that. The officer of the deck looked at me with horror on his face and he said, "Do you think I should go deeper?" I told him it was probably a good idea. We kind of nervously laughed it off later, but I think we got pretty close to a disaster.

It was cool to feel the boat flex like that. Something I won't forget.

 

[muttley600]

Haha! That's as clear a response as I'd ever expect from a polite Englishman! Plywood seems like it would be (structurally) very useful for beater/campfire guitar bodies - much better than HPL anyway. Why would someone use HPL?

Sorry missed this one and just clearing out my cache.

HPL is cheap comparatively and also very stable. ideal for mass produced but also Ideal for mass sounding...