Optional Body Woods
HARD ROCK MAPLE Hard Rock Maple
We use premium hard rock maple for our necks because of its time proven strength and stability. As a body wood, hard rock maple being very heavy and dense, delivers a bright sustaining tone. Maple has a wonderful light grain that looks great with all of our translucent finishes.
ALDER Alder
Alder is a standard body wood for many of our guitars. Due to its relatively light weight, this wood is very resonant with upper midrange definition. Alder is a classic tone wood and has been present in solid body electric guitars from the beginning. Alder has a medium light color, slightly darker than maple and swamp ash.
MAHOGANY Mahogany
Mahogany has an inherent warm quality with accentuated low-midrange. Mahogany is also considered to be a classic tone wood. It is denser and heavier than Alder, but lighter than Maple. Mahogany along with our flamed or quilted maple tops, gives great sustain and warmth. Mahogany is reddish brown in color and looks great with all colors.
SWAMP ASH Swamp Ash
This vintage wood comes from Southern swamps. The portion of the tree that is suitable for high quality lightweight Swamp Ash, is actually submerged underwater for years which yields a porous lightweight wood. This wood delivers slightly less midrange with full low-end and nice singing highs. Swamp Ash is light in color with rich grain patterns and matches the color of our Hard Rock Maple necks and looks great with translucent finishes.
BLACK WALNUT Black Walnut
Black Walnut is a dense medium hard wood that is slightly heavier than Mahogany. Its tonal quality is warm with a growling low end and a bright top end. Black walnut has medium dark beautiful grain patterns and looks great with gloss or satin finishes.
KOA Koa
Koa is an exotic medium weight wood grown exclusively in the Hawaiian Islands. Koa has warmth and sustain similar to Mahogany and also possesses the clear open tone of Alder. Koa looks wonderful whether you choose a tung oiled, satin or gloss finish.
     Optional Body Top Woods
4A FLAMED CURLY MAPLE AAAA Flamed Curly Maple
Flamed Curly Maple tops come from the Northwest portion of the United States. It is lighter in weight than Eastern Hard Rock Maple and produces singing highs with a tight low end. Sound's wonderful over our standard Maple neck/Alder body sides or optional Genuine Mahogany.
4A QUILTED MAPLE AAAA Quilted Maple
Quilted Maple tops also come from the Northwest United States. Quilted Maple produces similar tones to the Flamed Curly Maple. The figure can vary from large cloud shapes to smaller pockets­looks great with all translucent finishes and stains.
FLAMED CURLY KOA Flamed Curly Koa
Flamed Curly Koa is a premium wood for building Ukuleles and high-end acoustic guitars. Should you choose to add Flamed Curly Koa to the top of your guitar, the tone will benefit from added sweetness and pronounced midrange. Koa looks wonderful whether you choose a tung oiled, satin or gloss finish.
CLARO WALNUT Figured Claro Walnut
Claro Walnut is the most sought after figured walnut on the market. A walnut top will add a unique look and a brighter tone in the upper register with a darker growling low end. The figure can vary between a flame and quilted look with variations in patterns and shades of brownish root beer colors and black.
CEDAR Cedar
Cedar has a very nice reddish brown color with even straight grain and comes standard on our CL40. It has been used for hundreds of years as a top wood on classical and flamenco guitars. It has a very warm tone with subdued high end when compared to spruce.
     Standard Solid Colors
   
  Jet Black Classic White Pearl White Ferrari Red Pearl Blue Seafoam Green  
 
     Optional Translucent Finishes (Shown on standard Alder)
   
  Translucent Purple Emerald Green Greenburst Sapphire Blue Blueburst Cherry Red  
   
  Tobacco Sunburst Classic Sunburst Cherry Sunburst Vintage Yellow Sunsetburst Translucent White  
     Optional Flame Maple Finishes
Crimson Red Translucent Purple Emerald Green Greenburst Sapphire Blue Blueburst Vintage Yellow Cherry Sunburst
Tobacco Burst Classic Burst Sunsetburst Ruby Red Stain Black Stain Antique Brown Stain Umber Stain Clear Finish
     Optional Quilted Maple Finishes
Crimson Red Translucent Purple Emerald Green Greenburst Sapphire Blue Blueburst Vintage Yellow Cherry Sunburst
Tobacco Sunburst Classic Sunburst Sunsetburst Ruby Red Stain Black Stain Antique Brown Stain Umber Stain Clear Finish