We create art pieces that are inspired by nature. Built from Its natural resources, the best what nature can provide to us.
Best quality and often very rare materials are being used to create each Lava Drops Guitar. Lava Drops was founded on the principle of cross-pollination between the fields of acoustics and modern instrument design concepts. Crafted using ultra-authentic materials: black amber, aircraft aluminium, a meteorite from the atmosphere, bell brass, exotic and sustainable hardwoods, titanium, silver, gold, stiffened volcanic lava, etc.
Rare and sustainable wood combinations mainly joined by our unique neck-trough or set neck constructions to give a perfect balance between the endless resonating voice of the guitar and visual character. Each wood piece we use has an individual grain and tone. Maple, Ebony, Mahogany, Padauk, Wenge etc. Just several examples of the Lava Drops wood library.
We use a different kind of metals in a combination with the wood. The Lava Drop X instruments family is a result of a combination between aluminium that gives a higher frequency and warmer Mahogany wood. This particular material contrast gives a perfect balance for the tone and sustain. Stainless steel, bell brass are often being used to create one of a kind Lava Drops details like a bridge, tuners etc. X family represents a modern view to the artistic world, design and technology.
Even more, Lava Drops have been known for their unique approach to incorporate materials that have a millennium touch as the 50 million years old Baltic amber and the black amber the fossilized tree resin produced by the pine trees that grew up in the Northern Europe, Baltic region before the ice age/Neolithic times. The Black Amber Drop – collector piece ar the result of this prehistoric experience. Amber is also considered by many to have therapeutic properties due to its high level of succinic acid, a compound said to have analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties. These Drops as an instrument have a very fast and striking response to notes and chords from the rigidity of the amber itself.
And of course, the meteorite from the atmosphere. Yes, you heard that right! We have approached a first in the world unique technology to use the meteorite from the space to use it for our instruments and incorporate it to the one of a kind Lava Drops guitars. After long years of research of this unearthly material aspect and unique properties, we finally created the connection between space and earth.
Each material has it’s sound profile and it’s own history. Our mission is to tame these precious materials in a one of a kind drop shaped playable art pieces. By joining these materials together we create a palette of sounding visual experiences.