This 6th and final installment on tone woods and their sustainability within an ever growing consumer demand is about rosewood, one of the most expensive tonewood varieties. Rosewood has a lot to live up to with its smooth, warm tone and complex harmonic overtones. Visually, Rosewood is typically dark, chocolate brown in color, with a […]
In this third installment on sustainable tone woods, we’ll be talking about Ebony as a Tonewood. Previously we talked about KOA and Spruce. Woods commonly used for instrument building, known in the industry as ‘tonewoods’, more often than not are tropical hardwoods growing in countries with rampant illegal logging, lax law enforcement, and disappearing rainforests. […]
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 […]