Guitar Sets

Guitar sets are essential to building guitars.  Oregon Wild Wood currently offers over 2,500 guitar sets. Your choice of  guitar set will determine the cost, sound,  weight, playability, and appearance of your guitar.

We consider the finest guitar sets to be those with superior projection and sustain.  The visual appeal and weight of guitar sets are also important factors.  Each guitar wood species and cut has its own unique characteristics that are important to recognize when choosing your guitar sets:  grain structure, wood density, sap viability, the way and length of curing of the guitar sets affect the tone of your guitar.

Click on the photos below to see over 2,500 guitar sets currently available.

More about Guitar Sets

Guitars are unique in sound, look and playability. Many factors effect the sound, look, and feel of your guitar:  Design, quality of craftsmanship, electronics and most importantly your choice of woods are the most important factors to making your next guitar exceptional.  Our duty at OregonWildWood.com is seeking and offering the finest guitar sets available to make your next guitar masterpiece.

Guitar sets are tonewood.  Tonewood is the term generally used to designate wood with desirable and consistent resonant qualities, fundamental to good guitar sets.

• The grain structure of guitar sets effect the tone of your guitar
• The wood colors, patterns, figuring and chatoyance of guitar sets effect the appearance of your guitar
• The sap viability of guitar sets effects the tonal quality of your guitar
• The wood density of guitar sets effect the tone and weight of your guitar
• The way the wood of the guitar sets is cured will effect the tone, look, and structural stability of your guitar
• The amount it's played will effect the tone of your guitar (the more, the better)

We consider the finest guitar sets to be those species with superior projection and sustain. Guitar sets should not have weak or bright spots within the tonal range.  Many of the wood species from the US Pacific NW meet these criteria, and more.

Guitar sets from some Pacific NW woods were well known by luthiers, but others, like Myrtlewood, Claro, Franquette & Bastogne Walnut, Port Orford Cedar, Redwood, Pistachio, Olive, Osage Orange and Douglas Fir are just now gaining notoriety.

Oregon Wild Wood offers the following guitar sets:

• Guitar sets for beginners
• Guitar sets for master luthiers
• Guitar sets for solid body guitar wood
• Guitar sets for hollow body guitars
• Guitar sets for acoustic guitar back & side sets
• Guitar sets for bass guitar top sets
• Guitar sets for acoustic guitar back and sides
• Guitar sets for guitar soundboards

Healthy forests are vital to all of us, for many reasons. We must preserve these precious resources for future generations. To that end, Oregon Wild Wood strives to provide guitar sets only from salvaged wood, trunks and stumps left behind from old timber harvests, trees that have died and/or must be removed, trees from commercial groves that become unproductive, and even wood salvaged from old buildings and structures. Your next guitar can be a source of pride in yet another way.

Make your next guitar one of a kind. Every luthier set sold by OregonWildWood is visually unique and distinctive - even guitar sets within the same species vary greatly in color, contrast and figuring. You'll find the largest online selection of guitar sets available and each is unique. We strive to provide guitar sets that is exotic, beautiful, unique and tonally superior. Each guitar set is individually pictured giving you the opportunity to choose the perfect one for your next guitar.

Click on the links above to select the perfect guitar sets for you. Contact us if you would like more information to help decide which guitar sets are right for you. At Oregon Wild Wood, our mission is to improve the sound (and beauty and playability) of your next guitar!