Guitar Tonewoods

The guitar tonewoods selected are fundamental to the sound, look and playability of your next guitar.  Oregon Wild Wood currently offers over 2,500 guitar tonewoods sets online. The guitar tonewoods you choose are fundamental to the cost, sound,  weight, playability and appearance of your guitar.  When selecting guitar tonewoods, don’t settle for anything but the best US Pacific NW guitar tonewoods.

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

More about Guitar Tonewoods

Guitars vary greatly in sound, look and playability. Different designs, quality of craftsmanship, electronics and choice of guitar tonewoods make them sound, look and feel different from one another. It's the luthiers' goal to combine the best of these elements to create the next masterpiece. Our task is seeking and offering the finest guitar tonewoods available to make that goal a reality.

Great Guitar Tonewoods = Great Guitars

Guitar tonewoods are the term generally used to designate wood with desirable and consistent resonant qualities, fundamental to good guitar tonewoods. The visual appeal and weight of guitar tonewoods are also important factors.  Each guitar tonewood species and cut has its own unique characters that effect guitar tonewoods.

• The grain structure of guitar tonewoods effects the tone of your guitar
• The density of guitar tonewoods effects the tone and weight of your guitar
• The colors, patterns, figuring and chatoyance of guitar tonewoods effect the appearance of your guitar
• The sap viability of guitar tonewoods effects the tonal quality of your guitar
• The way the wood of the guitar tonewoods 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 tonewoods to be those species with superior projection and sustain. Guitar tonewoods 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 tonewoods 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 tonewoods:

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

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

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 tonewoods 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.

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