Guitar Woods

With over 2,500 sets individually pictured, you'll find the largest online selection of guitar woods available to you easily, quickly, and securely.  You can shop with confidence at OregonWildWood.com.   Don't settle for anything but the finest guitar woods.  The wood that you select when building your custom guitar effects the tonal quality, playability, amplitude, weight, stability and appearance. Some of the finest guitar woods come from the US Pacific NW. Our guitar woods are hand selected to be highly resonant, beautifully colored and figured.

Click on the photos below to see over 2,000 of the finest sets of guitar woods currently available.

Solid Body Electric Guitar Top Sets

Acoustic Back & Side Sets

Soundboard Sets

Body Blanks

Neck Blanks

Tone Panels

More about Guitar Woods

It's beneficial to understand the tonal qualities of guitar woods.  The woods that you choose for your guitar have a significant impact on the way the instrument sounds.  In addition to the guitar woods chosen, different body styles and sizes impact a guitar's sound. 

The availability of guitar woods determines your options. It comes from trees all around the world but guitar woods from the Pacific NW in the US is among the finest available. The hardness or softness of guitar woods does not always dictate the tonal qualities as it can be both hardwood and softwood.

Available in a large variety of species, age, and finishes; guitar woods can affect all aspects of your guitar. Your choice of guitar woods effect sound, determines weight, and the cost to build.

Guitar Woods have many tonal Qualities

Guitar wood has different tonal qualities depending on the species, cell structure, and the cut from the tree. Drying time, sap content and its viability to move, and the luthier's technique all effect the tonal qualities of guitar woods.  One of the more fascinating aspects of your guitar's tone and sound is that it will change depending on the amount that your guitar is played. The vibrations will cause sap rearrangement within the guitar wood often producing a richer more attractive sound.  The climate and temperature that guitar woods are stored in and even the amount that a guitar is played will effect the tonal qualities of your guitar.

Guitar Woods can be finished in many ways

There are many methods employed to finish guitar wood.

• Guitar woods can be lacquered
• Guitar woods can be finished with nitro
• Guitar woods can be finished in a sunburst pattern
• Guitar woods can be finished with glitter
• Guitar woods can be coated with a clear finish
• Guitar woods can be elegantly finished
• Guitar woods can be stained with an opaque stain
• Guitar woods can be finished with polyurethane
• Guitar woods can be shellacked
• Guitar woods can be finished with rubbing oil
• Guitar woods can be stained

Oregon Wild Wood sells guitar wood

Oregon Wild Wood has the largest online selection of guitar wood in the world. Peruse our website to see a huge inventory of online guitar woods available.  You will be delighted to find:

Plus figured, quilted, burl, fiddleback, straight grain, and curly guitar wood...!

The wood of a guitar is one of the most crucial elements and your guitar wood selection ultimately will determine most of the nuances of the guitar. This includes the tone, sustain, weight and endurance, and even the long term value of the instrument.

OregonWildWood.com offers a huge variety of guitar sets to choose from:

• solid body guitar wood
• hollow body guitar woods
• acoustic guitar back & side sets
• bass guitar top sets
• guitar wood for beginners
• guitar woods for master luthiers
• guitar wood for limited & mass production runs
• the finest looking & sounding guitars in the world as seen ourgallery
• dreadnought acoustic and acoustic electric guitar sets
• OM guitars back and side sets
• jumbo guitar acoustic sets
• ukulele woods

A final fact about guitar woods

The sound quality of your next guitar is reliant upon

• The guitar woods species or type
• Where in the world it was grown (we recommend Pacific NW woods)
• The cut of the wood (we recommend cuts from salvaged woods)
• The quality of the cut