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MUSIC WOOD
Tone wood , Luthiers wood, sound boards, instrument wood… call it
what you like its all good and its hard to get.
Sitka Spruce is the benchmark species, with Western Red Cedar right up in
the running. All sound boards are measured against these for resonance qualities.
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Here at ‘Select Timbers’ we are always utilizing good quality
old growth logs. And so we also make it our business, while milling one
order, to keep our eyes peeled for that perfect colour and that perfect
section of the log that has fine and even growth with poker straight grain.
We do this by use of a splitting saw. Which allows us to split the log into
very specific slabs. Halves or quarters… even thirds and eighths or
sixteenths… anything to get all the true usefulness from the log.
When we see it, we’ll separate the entire cant or slab to a lay away
until we get an order for Sitka Spruce or Western Red Cedar instrument tops.
Some of the fine instruments commonly using soundboards from Spruce and
Cedar are guitars and violins, cellos and ultimately the piano. Or any string
instrument for that matter would be made richer in tone using these old
growth fine grained woods from the B.C. coast.
For the backs and sides of acoustic instruments as well as electric guitars,
we also keep a sharp eye for quilted maple. Very nice stuff and also hard
to come by.
Regardless of which species you seek there is always a possibility we have
some. And if we don’t, then we certainly can go and find it through
our network of west coast loggers and foresters.
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