Tone Woods
Find the Perfect Tone Wood for Your Custom Guitar
Explore our range of high-quality tone woods and create a custom guitar that matches your unique style and sound preferences.
Maple
Maple is a popular choice for guitar bodies due to its bright tone and sustain. It provides a crisp sound with excellent clarity, making it ideal for a wide range of musical styles.
Mahogany
Mahogany is known for its warm and rich tone, making it a popular choice for guitar necks and bodies. It offers great sustain and a smooth sound that enhances the overall playing experience.
Basswood
Basswood is a soft wood with tight grains and will tend to dampen sharp highs and soften them. Helping level out the thin tinny sound associated with knife edged tremolo contacts. The softness of Basswood also stimulates a weaker low end. It's light in weight, but not because of large pores.
Swamp Ash
Found mainly in the wetter, southern regions of the U.S., swamp ash is lighter than the northern variety, with large open pores. This makes it remarkably resonant and sweet sounding, with clearly chiming highs, defined midrange and strong low end.
Cherry
Renowned for its balanced and warm sound, cherry wood offers a pleasing blend of low and midrange frequencies. This tonal profile produces a well-rounded, resonant tone that is highly desirable for various music genres, including blues, jazz, and folk.
Walnut
Walnut's tone is slightly warmer than maple, although it still has good sustain. Walnut is comparatively heavy, but still lighter than maple.
Alder
Red alder boasts many sonic advantages. Not especially dense, it's a lightweight, closed-pore wood that has a resonant, balanced tone brighter than other hardwoods, with a little more emphasis in the upper midrange. It imparts excellent sustain and sharp attack.