The hunt for the perfect instrument is increasingly focusing on the production process – but with 15 billion trees ...

At UBC’s Centre for Advanced Wood Processing, PhD student Joseph Doh Wook Kim plays a flawless riff on an electric guitar made with plantation-grown Fijian mahogany. The sound is deep, warm and ...

Wood from mythical mahogany tree inspires Salem guitarist, luthier Dan Wetzel Felled in the 1960s and harvested in the 1980s, wood from what is known as "The Tree" is coveted by luthiers, guitar ...

Urban Ironbark replaces mahogany in the 500 series guitar backs and sides. The wood compares to East Indian rosewood and ebony in density, according to Taylor Guitars.

The more common woods typically used for guitars — mahogany, ... Annually, Taylor manufactures over 160,000 guitars, making the urban wood initiative right now a small part of its output.

Wallace, 39, has crafted guitars with wood from the historic David Whitney Building, ... He also uses pine, ash and mahogany collected by the Architectural Salvage Warehouse.

According to many musicians, in order to have the best sound possible, an acoustic guitar has to be made from the "right" type of wood. Unfortunately, such wood often comes from endangered ...

The Tree mahogany left for Jared from Richard became the back, sides, top, and neck of the guitar. Jared Heisey’s father Richard’s chisel and radio antenna resting on the top soundboard of the ...

1. THE MATERIALS. Guitars start as piles of wood. The backs and sides are usually made from sturdy hardwoods like mahogany, rosewood or maple. The tops are typically from a species of spruce tree ...

Each handcrafted guitar takes roughly two months to complete and comes with your choice of personalized details—one client requested a brass-and-pearl-inlaid genie lamp. ... For his own playing, ...

The wood traditionally used to fashion premium guitars – rosewood, maple, ebony, mahogany and spruce – is being lost as a result of over-harvesting and the depletion of rainforests.