Stuart Smith (Award-Winning Guitarist) Signs Endorsement Deal With Aero3 Guitars

February 12, 2015 Infrared Magazine Music News, Press Releases Comments Off

DATE: FEBRUARY 12, 2015

FROM: AARON FETERL, MSO PR

p align=”center”>AWARD-WINNING GUITARIST
STUART SMITH
SIGNS EXCLUSIVE ENDORSEMENT DEAL WITH
AERO³ GUITARS

TO BUILD GROUNDBREAKING GUITAR

Pictured above: Stuart Smith holding his “Aero³Stuart Smith Signature Model Guitar”
Download images here: http://we.tl/fWOTwkHeBf

Stuart Smith, the award-winning guitarist and founder of the critically acclaimed hard rock band HEAVEN & EARTH, has signed an exclusive endorsement deal with Seattle-based Aero³ Guitars, a boutique manufacturer of unrivaled and unique guitars and basses. Aero³ Guitars recently announced the release of their “Aero³ Stuart Smith Signature Model” (prototype picture above and below), their new guitar brand infusing aerospace technology into the guitar body to create a crisp, long lasting tonal quality while reducing the weight of the guitar by approximately 50%.

“This is without a doubt the best sounding and easiest to play guitar I have ever held in my hands,” says Stuart Smith. “As some of you will know, I have been a Strat player for all of my life so it was a huge decision for me to even think about using a different instrument, but the minute I picked it up and plugged it in I knew this was the guitar sound I’d been looking for all my life. The sustain is unbelievable, even at low volume and it only weighs about 6 pounds compared to the 9 or 10 pounds my Strats weigh. The workmanship is first class and the neck feels like butter.”

Aero³ Guitars founder/CEO and aerospace engineer Rob Austin developed the idea for “Aero³ Stuart Smith Signature Model” by incorporating aerospace technology concepts used for flight control surfaces to improve the overall sustain and sound. Says Rob, “The Aero³guitar is a game changer in guitar design. It looks similar to other high quality brand name guitars; however, the difference is on the inside where the body is infused with aerospace technology. This revolutionary change makes a huge difference in tactile response, tone, sustain and playability.” Aero³Guitars President Rick Reynolds, who has 20 years of entrepreneurial expertise assisting companies by bringing new products featuring advanced technology into the marketplace or expanding existing technologies into other vertical markets, adds: “Rob reached into the heavens to grasp the aerospace technology and infused it with the woods of the earth; therefore it is fitting that Aero³’s first sponsored guitarist is Stuart Smith from Heaven & Earth.”

The “Aero³ Stuart Smith Signature Model” will be available to purchase at aero3guitars.com beginning later this year.

About Stuart Smith:
Stuart Smith, an England-raised protégé of Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore and award-winning guitarist who played with ’70s rock legends Sweet before spinning off and forming Heaven & Earth. Coming off 2013’s acclaimed album Dig and an enthusiastically received 17-date 2014 European concert tour, Heaven & Earth–Stuart Smith (band founder/guitarist), Joe Retta (vocals), Kenny Aronoff (drums), Lynn Sorensen of Paul Rogers/Bad Company (bass/vocals) and Ty Bailie (keyboards)–are back in the studio working on a new album (produced by Dave Jenkins and available via Quarto Valley Records) for 2015.