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Hawaiian KOA Tonewood is Sustainable

Posted on by Johan
17
Jun

“Hawaiian KOA Tonewood is Sustainable” is the second installment in our six story series about producing sustainable tonewoods, which is currently defining the global availability of the woods suitable for the manufacturing of string instruments. Building an acoustic guitar means considering the tonal balance of the wood as much as any structural properties. Guitars are […]

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Sustainable Supply of Instrument Tonewoods

Posted on by Johan
Tonewoods in Breedlove guitars
10
Jun

The sustainable supply of Tonewoods is at a critical junction, following years of clear cutting forests that besides construction timber, produce the woods needed for acoustic instrument building. Among the thousands of timber and lumber species and varieties globally grown, there are only a small number that carry the distinction of being a tonewood. Tonewoods […]

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