Premium Guitar Tonewoods for Luthiers and Guitar Makers

Close-up of a luthier’s hands working on guitar bracing with a chisel and plane tool on a wooden workbench. Spruce top in progress.

PREMIUM TONEWOODS

For luthiers around the world

Select the look AND the sound of your next build

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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.

Striking koa back and side set for acoustic guitar with vivid sapwood center and bold, curly figure. White outline marks guitar body shape.

Koa Back and Side Sets

Sonically Graded Spruce

Bookmatched redwood mandolin top with fine grain and subtle curl, ideal for warm and responsive tonal character.

Redwood for Mandolins

Close-up of an acoustic guitar with a wooden body, revealing the fine details of the grain.

Close-up of a polished guitar's back, showcasing rich brown wood with striking grain patterns. The glossy surface reflects light, conveying elegance.

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

Koa Electric

Quilted Maple

New Product: Bowl Cores

We’re always looking for new and better ways to utilize all the wood that comes into the mill, and our new bowl core lathe helps us do just that! If you’re a bowl turner, we’ve got kiln-dried cores that are ready for your own lathe.

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Guitar 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.

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As an archtop guitar builder, the beauty, tone, and the way the guitar makes you feel, all starts with wood selection. PRT makes the choices easy! I’m extremely pleased with the quality of the wood, and consistently impressed with the people at PRT.

Aaron Wald, Wald Guitars

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I’m astounded and thrilled with your sonic graded Lutz spruce! Incredibly rich, warm, bright, clear and resonate, it’s simply the best sounding uke at this early stage that I’ve ever strung up. I’m going to need more of that marvellous wood!

Brian Griffin, Griffin Ukuleles

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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