92 definitions for G

  - Category: Manufacture of Gear
Gripmaster : Brand name: Finger Exercise Tool for building strength.
+ Associated link: http://www.gripmaster.net/

  - Category: Guitar Repair/Building
Guitarrero : guitar maker (luthier) (Flamenco)

  - Category: Guitar Repair/Building
(Close)Grained Wood : Wood with narrow, inconspicuous annual rings.
The term is sometimes used to designate wood having small and closely spaced pores, but in this sense the term "fine textured" is more often used.

  - Category: Guitar Repair/Building
(Coarse)Grained Wood : Wood with wide conspicuous annual rings in which there is considerable difference between springwood and summerwood.
The term is sometimes used to designate wood with large pores, such as oak, ash, chestnut, and walnut, but in this sense the term "coarse textured" is more often used.

  - Category: Guitar Repair/Building
(Cross)Grained Wood : Wood in which the fibers deviate from a line parallel to the sides of the piece. Cross grain may be either diagonal or spiral grain or a combination of the two.

  - Category: Guitar Repair/Building
(Curly) Grained Wood : Wood in which the fibers are distorted so that they have a curled appearance, as in "birdseye" wood.

  - Category: Guitar Repair/Building
(Diagonal) Grained Wood : Wood in which the annual rings are at an angle with the axis of a piece as a result of sawing at an angle with the bark of the tree or log.
A form of cross-grain.

  - Category: Guitar Repair/Building
(Edge) Grained Wood : Wood that has been sawed so that the wide surfaces extend approximately at right angles to the annual growth rings. Wood is considered edge grained when the rings form an angle of 45~ to 90? with the wide surface of the piece.

  - Category: Guitar Repair/Building
(End) Grained Wood : The grain as seen on a cut made at a right angle to the direction of the fibers (e.g., on a cross section of a tree).

  - Category: Guitar Repair/Building
(Fiddleback) Grained Wood : Figure produced by a type of fine wavy grain found, for example, in species of maple; such wood being traditionally used for the backs of violins.