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Tone wood

Selected, long matured European and tropical tone wood and precious wood grant your instrument colour and elegance. I also produce guitars completely free of tropical wood for you. Of course I advise you on the choice of woods for your guitar.

For concert guitars you can choose from the following tone woods:

European wood

  • Walnut
  • Fruitwoods, like cherry, plum, pear, apple, and beam-tree
  • Flamed maple, Bird’s eye maple, quilted maple
  • Cypress

Tropical wood

  • East-Indian rosewood
  • Santos rosewood
  • African rosewood
  • Macassar Ebony
  • Cocobolo
  • Bubinga
  • Padouk
  • Ovenkol

Further information about tone wood follow soon.

Examples

Klassische Konzertgitarre Zeder / Palisander. Detailaufnahme des Bodens. Gitarrenbaumeister: Thomas Ochs, Kemmern.

East-indian rosewood

Klassische Konzertgitarre Zeder und Madagaskar Palisander. Rückansicht des Korpus. Gitarrenbaumeister: Thomas Ochs, Kemmern.

African rosewood

flammed and quilted maple

Klassische Konzertgitarre Zeder und Santos Palisander. Rückansicht des Korpus. Gitarrenbaumeister: Thomas Ochs, Kemmern.

Santos rosewood

bird's eye maple