Lutz - Traditional Tonewood
Dreadnought / AA
$50.00
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Lutz - Traditional Tonewood
$50.00
Description
At Pacific Rim Tonewoods, we personally select each of our spruce logs. We split those logs into wedge shaped blocks, focusing on maximizing quality while minimizing any twist that a log might have. Our sawyers then cut these blocks into exactingly quartered boards, locking in the radial stiffness. These boards are air dried, then “finished” over a period of 3-4 weeks in our dehumidification kiln, reaching a final moisture content of 8.5%. When dry, the boards are resawn into bookmatched sets and graded into one of three traditional grades:
AAAA – our best soundboard visually; stiff, silky and uniform in color across the whole pattern of the guitar
AAA – clean top, minimal color bands and light compression rings possible, uniform growth rate
AA – color bands and compression rings allowed; light knot shadow towards the waist / upper bout of the pattern; uniform to faster growth rate
Details
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Being a luthier-hobbyist myself, I recently built a Flamenco guitar using sonically graded Sitka spruce from Pacific Rim Tonewoods. The quality of their wood helped me make a clear step forward as an instrument builder, and I'm looking forward to collaborating with this amazing company for many years to come.
Miroslav Tadic, Musician & Luthier
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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