Your soundboard tonewood is going to produce the majority of your guitar's tonal characteristics, with the back and sides influencing the rest. Different woods produce different tonal characteristics and each species has it's own unique aesthetic qualities. You're looking for the best acoustic tone available, and we endeavor to consistently deliver on that desire regardless of the chosen tonewood species. The following list is designed to give you information about the look, location, density, and details of interest of each species, with recommendations from James Goodall regarding ideal species combinations for different playing styles and model sizes.
There are four main factors that we take into account when we grade our tonewood: color, grain straightness, quartersawn grain, and grain run-out. Grading standards vary based on the desirability of certain properties within each species. The attributes that constitute our grading will vary from species to species based on a wide range of factors, but you can know that we provide the highest quality selections available within each grade level.
Details: Red Spruce compares very similarly with Sitka Spruce in terms of mechanical properties. It has a fine, even texture, and a consistently straight dark grain albeit with some variety of width variations. Quartersawn billets of instrument-grade Red (Adirondack) Spruce can easily exceed the cost of almost all domestic hardwoods in terms of per board-foot cost. Adirondack Spruce was used for the tops on many of the great pre-war American guitars. Many guitarmakers today believe that this wood is a significant contributing factor to the strong, clear tone of those vintage/collectible instruments. Finding available logs that will yield full dreadnought sizes in a quality similar to the Sitka and Engelmann Spruce available today is very difficult.
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Details: Wood from slow-grown trees at high altitude has a specialized use in making musical instruments such as acoustic guitars, harps, violins, and pianos. In appearance it is like German Spruce, but unlike German Spruce, it seems to be more uniform in consistency. The tops are often more homogeneous looking with the early and late-growth rings being less distinct than those of Sitka. Like German Spruce, Engelmann has a beautiful ivory sheen.
Details: Because of its unsurpassed tonal characteristics, this species has proved itself above all others in the centuries-long history of instrument making: European spruce picea abies. The wood has to slow-grown, light in weight and yet exhibit a high degree of stiffness. European spruce meets these requirements. Favorable damping qualities, an optimal stiffness to weight ratio, and internal friction are the criteria most sought after in good tonewood.
Details: This is the exact same species of wood as German Spruce, but it comes from a different region and so has slightly different attributes. It is just a bit warmer in color and the winter grain, when visible, is a bit pinker. Tonally, it is said be more focused with a slightly stronger fundamental than regular German Spruce.
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Details: Sitka spruce is used widely in piano, harp, violin, and guitar manufacture, as its outstanding strength-to-weight ratio and regular, knot-free rings make it an excellent conductor of sound. It is available in large, straight-grained pieces, lending this timber to a wide range of commercial uses. It is by far the largest species of spruce, and has been documented to reach 300 feet in height.
Details: Bearclaw grain is a visual treat. This spruce features subtle natural bearclaw striations that appear randomly across the grain. This is caused by a rippling of the longitudinal fibers, which alter the appearance of the surface of the wood with shimmering patterns. This gives the soundboard an especially distinctive appearance. Bearclaw sitka spruce has all of the characteristics of it's non-figured counterpart, but it is normally stiffer.
Details: Actually a rare variety of Cypress. So named because it was first discovered near Port Orford in Oregon. Port Orford Cedar is a hidden gem in the among other strong, lightweight timbers, possessing superb strength-to-weight ratio. It has a desirable workability for carving, turning & machining. It is highly prized for boat building, cabinetry, furniture, doors, etc.
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Details: Western red cedar is a commercially important lumber, used in a number of applications ranging from rough-sawn lumber for use in home construction, to clear quartersawn material for classical guitar soundboards. We have found that this cedar generally sounds more mature in it's tonal characteristics, when just built, than some spruce species which may take longer to develop into their aged qualities. Western red cedar sounds great, and is very stable.
Details: Capable of attaining heights of nearly 400 feet, Redwood is the world's largest tree species. It grows in a very limited area on the Pacific coast of northwestern United States from central California to southwestern Oregon, where heavy rainfall and cool, damp air create a unique environment for these trees. Redwood lumber is very soft and lightweight, with a decent strength-to-weight ratio. It is also exceptionally stable, with very little shrinkage or seasonal movement, with a tone similar to Western red cedar.
Characteristics: Color tends to be medium golden or reddish brown, similar to Mahogany. There are usually contrasting bands of color in the growth rings, sometimes appearing as ribbon-like streaks of color. Boards figured with wavy and/or curly grain are especially valued.
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Details: Koa is widely considered to be the most beautiful and useful of Hawaii’s native hardwoods, and along with Monkey Pod and Mango, it is the most common Hawaiian species to be imported into the lower 48 United States. Visually, Koa has been compared to Mahogany, while in terms of working and mechanical properties, it has been compared to Walnut. Koa tends to be quite stable regarding environmental changes in humidity. When used as a soundboard on our Royal Hawaiian all-koa series, the set must be carefully selected to find the lightest weight available. This allows acoustic actuation of the top similar to spruce and we are able to achieve a sweet resonant tone when building an all-koa Goodall guitar.
Details: An immensely popular African hardwood, known for it's strength and beauty. Bubinga can somewhat resemble rosewood, yet it also can have stunning grain features, such as pommele (pictured above), flamed, or waterfall. It has a great strength to weight ratio.
Characteristics: Dark chocolate brown to lighter purple or red-brown, with contrasting streaks. May have cross grain patterns sometimes referred to as spider-webbing.
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Details: Historically, it has perhaps been the species most frequently associated with the term “Rosewood, ” and with its strength, hardness, stability, beauty, and acoustic properties, it’s easy to see why this species has been so widely used. The lumber is restricted from being imported or exported from country to country, and even finished products made of Brazilian Rosewood may not cross international boundaries due to its endangered status.
Details: One of today’s most prized lumbers for its outstanding color and figure. Due to its density and hardness, even a large block of the cut wood will produce a clear musical tone when struck.
Characteristics: Range of colors that go from light brown to dark mauve. Can vary from a golden brown to a deep purplish brown, with darker brown streaks.
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Details: Extensively used because of its great characteristics, it is known internationally as a premier timber species of the rosewood genus. Indian Rosewood has been used widely on acoustic guitars since the mid 1960s as a substitute for the now-endangered Brazilian rosewood.
Details: Honduran Rosewood is known for its acoustic properties, possessing an excellent tap-tone, making it well-suited for acoustic guitars, xylophone keys, and other acoustic musical instruments.
Characteristics: Color tends to be medium golden or reddish brown, similar to Mahogany. There are usually contrasting bands of color in the growth rings, sometimes appearing as ribbon-like streaks of color. Boards figured with wavy and/or curly grain are especially valued.
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Details: Koa is widely considered to be the most beautiful and useful of Hawaii’s native hardwoods, and along with Monkey Pod and Mango, it is the most common Hawaiian species to be imported into the lower 48 United States. Visually, Koa has been compared to Mahogany, while in terms of working and mechanical properties, it has been compared to Walnut. Koa tends to be quite stable regarding environmental changes in humidity.
Characteristics: Heartwood color can vary a fair amount with Honduran Mahogany, from a pale pinkish brown, to a darker reddish brown. Color tends to darken with age.
Details: Honduran Mahogany’s easy workability, combined with its beauty and phenomenal stability have made this lumber an enduring favorite. Honduran Mahogany goes by many names, yet perhaps its most accurate and telling name is Genuine Mahogany. Not to be confused with lower cost imitations, such as Philippine Mahogany, is what most consider to be the real and true species when referring to “Mahogany.” It is a very important commercial timber in Latin America, and is now grown extensively on plantations.
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Details: This elegantly beautiful wood is exceptionally hard, heavy, and strong. It has a rich, dark three-dimensional tone very similar in characteristics to Honduran and Cocobolo Rosewood, including a ringing tap tone. Looks especially nice with a Western Red Cedar or Sinker Redwood top and ebony or Curly maple binding. Makes a heavier instrument.
Characteristics: Heartwood generally ranges from a light yellow-brown to a darker orange or reddish brown. Darker black streaks are common, and can produce a grain figure known as “spider-webbing” or “landscape, ” also found on Brazilian Rosewood and Ziricote.
Details: Most similar wood to Brazilian Rosewood
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