What’s the Best Guitar Tonewood?

There are many great guitar tonewood types and many factors that may influence your choice when it comes to the perfect wood. That said, we’d argue that there is not just one “best tonewood” – there are so many! Different acoustic guitar woods contribute to different tones, along with the type of soundboard, bracing and many other factors.

• Read more about choosing tonewoods

Two things to keep in mind regarding acoustic guitar tonewoods:

• Putting a finish on wood transforms its color and warmth. Images of unfinished wood require quite a bit of imagination to picture the vibrancy of the finished instrument.
• If you do not see what you are looking for we can contact our premium suppliers and round up most anything.

Click on an image below to learn more about the characteristics of that wood, to see all currently available sets to chose from and to view a gallery of instruments crafted from that wood. You might just come across the perfect set of tonewood for your own custom Lichty guitar.

*Special Note: We frequently get inquiries about wood sales. Please be aware, our woods are carefully selected for our custom instrument projects and we do not sell our tonewoods.

Acoustic Guitar Tonewood Selection