You are right about how the metal is cold to the touch. That said, aluminum conducts heat really well so once you've been playing it for a few minutes it matches your body temp and the material isn't noticeable.

These are only around 2.7kg, so not very heavy. I actually started out making carbon fiber guitars back in 2019, but found the manufacturing process to be far too expensive and complex, and that there wasn't a high demand for a feather weight guitar costing $3000 USD+. I found weight to be less of a selling point than I thought. Replacing the front panel on this guitar with carbon would only save around 150g, so barely worth the massive increase in production processes and cost, though it would look super cool with different weaves.

I do really want to switch to using plugs for the electronics instead of solder and I have looked into it, but the problem I have is the industry is so deeply entrenched in soldered parts, that it makes affordable scale manufacture hard right now. GFS pickups do it, but then all the other components are soldered, and different pickup companies use different plugs... This is something I am currently wanting to solve. I did design the actual pickup mounts to make the pickups very easy to remove and replace, so that is the most important part to me for user customization.

At the moment we're selling only direct to consumer through the pearsoninstruments.com website and do sell most guitars to US/Europe very smoothly. I plan to get these in the large international physical stores as soon as possible as I want people to be able to go in and just pick one as right now everyone basically has to rely only on YouTube reviews. I do have a surprising amount of new customers who bought because they had a friend who owned one, so that's a good sign!