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Pacific Rim Tonewoods

BUILD YOUR BEST GUITAR

We can help you front load your workbench with the best tonewood possible

Premium Tonewoods

For luthiers around the world

Select the look AND the sound of your next build

EXCLUSIVE PRODUCT

Sonically Graded Tonewood

Measuring sound with scientific precision

SONIC IMPRESSIONS

with Miroslav Tadic

on guitars built with Low and High Q soundboards

IN CONVERSATION

with Jason Verlinde

and PRT on the science behind the sound

BROWSE OUR PRODUCTS

Intrinsic Beauty, Superior Sound

With scientific advancements in sonic testing and grading, we offer luthiers the highest standard in wood for guitars and other musical instruments.

Koa Back and Side Sets

Sonically Graded Spruce

Redwood for Mandolins

Shop the Vault

Find one-of-a-kind soundboards
plus back and side sets for your
acoustic, classical and electric guitars.

Koa Electric

Quilted Maple

Wood for the Future

For over 35 years, we’ve supplied the finest wood to luthiers and guitar makers. But we’re not just in the business of milling exceptional tonewood. We’re also growing trees.

Man in green hoodie inspecting spruce soundboards at a grading station in a Pacific Rim Tonewood facility.

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These Q tops dude...the dread seems to like the high density – strong bass and even. The OM1-JL loves the low density, just phenomenal! Been working with your sonically-graded tops for awhile now and I’m really impressed!

Steve Nall (Nully), Collings Guitars

Bruce from Collings Guitars stands at a workbench evaluating two blocks of tonewood, holding one piece in each hand.

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One of my jobs at Collings Guitars for the last 33 years has been ordering and putting into production Pacific Rim Tonewoods Sitka spruce tops. The quality and consistency of their soundboards is outstanding—it doesn’t get any better.

Bruce VanWart

Man in a brown jacket stands smiling in front of a green door on a brick building labeled

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I’ve had the pleasure of watching Pacific Rim Tonewoods grow from a one-man operation to the technology driven world leader in high quality tonewoods they are today. What sets them apart from the rest of the wood suppliers? Endless innovation on how to best process wood so it retains the sonic capabilities we all love about wood. Guitar builders all over the world, from small to large, have built better guitars with PRT tonewoods.

Jay Hostetler, Retired VP of Stewart Macdonald

Miroslav Tadić testing a custom acoustic guitar with figured koa back and sides and a light-coloured spruce top.

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It has been a true joy and inspiration to play several guitars built with the superb sonically graded wood from Pacific Rim Tonewoods. The three steel string guitars built by Trevor Gore offered me an astounding timbral and dynamic palette. It was thrilling to hear the subtle yet clear differences between the various grades of soundboards.

Miroslav Tadic, Musician & Composer

Trevor Gore adjusting a classical guitar on a workbench, with a tuning fork in his mouth and hand tools hanging on the wall behind him.

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I’ve been testing wood properties for an awfully long time, both by ear and with computers, so I’ve tested a LOT of timber. Using sonically graded wood from Pacific Rim Tonewoods means I don’t get pieces I don’t want to use. With PRT, I know I can always get tonewood with the properties I'm looking for, so that I can make guitars with the performance my customers want.

Trevor Gore, Luthier

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