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Article: GUITARS DESIGNED BY A ROCKET SCIENTIST.
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- Music Trades
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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After 15 Years Working On The Space Shuffle, Ellis Seal Applied His Composite Expertise To Creating A Radical New Guitar
Fifteen years of designing nose cones for the NASA Space Shuttle transformed Ellis Seal into a walking encyclopedia on composite material, those fiber and resin materials that can be found everywhere from supersonic aircraft to golf clubs. Three years ago, when he felt that the nation's space program was being mismanaged by bureaucrats, he quit his post at Lockheed Martin, determined to use his knowledge of composites to launch a new business. Seal's business, appropriately named Composite Acoustics, made its debut at last summer's Nashville ...