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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Guitar ribs which adjust for variations in wood resonance, at the Santa Cruz Guitar Company in, which uses old violin techniques to make a few hundred custom handmade guitars a year in Santa Cruz ...

A Custom Tempest Guitar Made From the Rarest Wood on Earth ... One is from “the Tree”: a Honduran mahogany estimated at over 500 years old when it was felled in 1965.

The aged Mahogany wood was the first thing to catch my eye on the D’Angelico Premier Gramercy LS. Because this guitar is sub-$400, don’t expect solid Mahogany; this is all laminated.

The mahogany neck is strengthened with walnut and joins the body with a compound dovetail neck. This is a serious acoustic guitar. Serious enough for the $2,499 outlay?

The fret board (the neck against which the strings are strung), of the classical guitar is significantly wider than that of the acoustic guitar. Wood. The body of the classical guitar is typically ...

Guitars are often made from old-growth wood, but Rosenkrantz only uses wood that's reclaimed or ethically sourced. This guitar is made from upcycled parts, including a vintage cigar humidor box ...