Best Guitar Wood

Oregon Wild Wood offers the best guitar wood we can find from the Pacific NW. But... what makes the best guitar wood? There are many answers, because in selecting the best guitar wood there are many choices to consider.

First and foremost, the best guitar wood must be a superior tonewood. That is to say, the best guitar wood is highly resonant. The best guitar wood possesses tonal qualities exhibiting great sound projection and sustain. The best guitar wood will also represent the full tonal range of the instrument uniformly without dull or bright areas. This allows the full range of harmonics to develop, in our opinion, fundamental to the best guitar wood.

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More about what makes the best guitar wood

While superior tonal quality is essential, there are many other aspects of the wood that must also be considered for wood to qualify as the best guitar wood.

The best guitar wood must be stable, without the propensity to shrink or warp.
The best guitar wood must be structurally sound and form a solid glue joint.
The best guitar wood must take a good finish and have great visual appeal.
The best guitar wood should not be too heavy for practical use.
The best guitar wood should be affordable to meet the market demand.
The best guitar wood should be salvaged whenever possible to preserve our environment.
The best guitar wood contains non-crystallized sap, allowing the best sound to develop.
The best guitar wood comes from the Pacific NW in several species.
All of these aspects need to be present to represent the best guitar wood.

The best guitar wood is necessary to make the best guitars.

Resonance is the ability of a tonewood material to carry vibration - specifically the vibrations created by a musical instrument.  Resonance is the ability to convert and project those vibrations into a loud and sustained sound in your tonewood choice.

The best guitar wood has varying qualities that will lend to a "voicing" of your instrument.  Voicing means that some of the tonewood will support and project a base note better than another tonewood, and even others will project mid-range and upper range notes.

Assessing tonal qualities is often done by simply tapping the tonewood and listening to the resulting sound of the wood.  It takes years of practice and is very subjective in nature.  At Oregon Wild Wood, we pride ourselves on the ability to bring you only the best guitar wood for your next instrument.

Tonewood qualities are subject to changes in tonal values by moisture content, dimensionalization, and sap viability - the most surprising tonewood quality is related to sap viability.

So, the bottom line about finding the best guitar wood is:  the better the resonance of your tonewood, the better the projection and sustain will be resulting in fantastic overall tonal qualities - all due to your choice of the best guitar wood from OregonWildWood.com

At Oregon Wild Wood, our mission is to improve the sound (and beauty and playability) of your next guitar!