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Guitars — wood application photos
Three electric guitar builds showcasing tonewood choices, from figured flame maple tops to stained mahogany and quilted maple over walnut. A chunk of wood can make an awesome guitar
An electric guitar showcases a vivid teal-stained flame maple top paired with a maple neck and fingerboard featuring bird inlays. A chunk of wood can make an awesome guitar
From raw tonewood planks to finished instrument: a figured maple-bodied electric guitar, a headstock inscribed by the luthier, and a flame maple neck taking shape on the bench. A chunk of wood can make an awesome guitar
A custom electric guitar showcasing a quilted mahogany body paired with a maple top and neck, highlighting how premium tonewoods define both the look and sound of a fine instrument. A chunk of wood can make an awesome guitar
Close-up views of a handcrafted classical guitar highlight the tonewoods used in its construction, from the slotted headstock to the figured rosewood back. An Artisan's Use of Tonewoods
A luthier examines an unfinished spruce top while a completed classical guitar rests in clamps on the workbench behind him. An Artisan's Use of Tonewoods
Detail shots of an artisan-built acoustic guitar highlight the figured rosewood back and the precision of its heel and center-seam joinery. An Artisan's Use of Tonewoods
Detail of a handcrafted classical guitar featuring a spruce top and rosewood back joined by a marquetry center strip. An Artisan's Use of Tonewoods
An acoustic guitar body held in clamps during construction, revealing the fan bracing pattern and kerfed linings that shape the instrument's tone. An Artisan's Use of Tonewoods
A handcrafted classical guitar showcasing a spruce top and ebony fingerboard, illustrating the luthier's selection of tonewoods. An Artisan's Use of Tonewoods
A semi-hollow electric guitar showcases the dramatic figure of responsibly sourced tropical tonewood, paired with gold hardware and an ebony fingerboard. Responsible Sourcing
A quilted maple guitar top finished in a deep blue burst highlights the figured grain alongside gold bridge hardware. Responsible Sourcing
A performer plays a gold-finished solid-body electric guitar, its mahogany body and rosewood fingerboard highlighted under stage lights. Responsible Sourcing
An electric guitar showcasing a vivid turquoise quilted maple top paired with an ebony fretboard featuring floral inlays. Responsible Sourcing
Craftsmen at PRS Guitars shape and sand solid-wood electric guitar bodies, where responsibly sourced tonewoods are central to the building process. Responsible Sourcing
A performer solos on a white electric guitar featuring a dark tropical-hardwood fingerboard, highlighting the role of responsibly sourced tonewoods in instrument building. Responsible Sourcing
Partially machined electric guitar bodies await finishing, their figured maple tops laminated over darker tonewood backs. A Glimpse at Some of the Lesser-Known Woods of Selva Maya