Talk:Luthite

Origins of Luthite

One site that I found says that Luthite is a material developed by Ibanez and licensed to Cort. Luthite on Everything2--MarkBarl (talk) 15:44, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Nope the patent is owned by Westheimer Corp, a US Cort guitar importer [1]. Onco p53 (talk) 05:01, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Criticisms

I can't relate to all those criticisms of Luthite mentioned in this short article, especially that they remain smelly for years. I don't own a Luthite instrument, it's just that I've never read this criticism anywhere else. So I would like to see some sort of reference. Maikel (talk) 21:23, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

I now have a plastic-body Ibanez bass, and I can confirm that it does smell a bit like white glue (especially after resting in its case for a few days) even though more than a decade old; not unpleasant, but decidedly unanticipated. This is mentioned on various guitar-oriented discussion sites — infrequently, as the instruments are not very common.

However, for the purposes of Wikipedia, all of that is presently apocryphal, until/unless some credible published source mentions it.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 06:21, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

before you ask

Luthite was used in most Ergodyne instruments, though near the end Ibanez put out a few wood-bodied models. As well, Cort later turned the plastic-body Curbow4/Curbow5/Curbow6 (sic) into the chunkier wood-body Curbow41/Curbow51.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 06:35, 31 January 2018 (UTC)