Wild Custom Guitar Wood

We’ve just added some incredible quilted maple guitar tops to our wood store at Vedder Mountain Hardwoods

These are priced to sell!

We recently picked up some really nice purpleheart lumber.  We don’t normally stock exotic woods, but these pieces were too pretty to pass up.  They’re a rich, vibrant, reddish burgundy color and have very nice grain. We have 3 boards that measure 8 to 10 ft long x 11 1/2″ wide and 2″ thick and 1 board that measures 8 ft long  7″ wide and 2″ thick.  This wood is well seasoned and ready to make into something beautiful.

Purpleheart is also known as amaranth, violetwood, coracy, pauroxo, pauferro, koroboreli, saka, nazareno, morado, and tananeo. It’s a very heavy, hard, strong, and stiff wood with good decay resistance.

It glues easily and polishes well with no staining required.

If you’re interested in purchasing some of this purpleheart, we’re selling it for $12.00 bf.  Contact Christina for more information.

Peter Martin, one of our customers in the UK, purchased some spalted maple 3/8″ sets from us last year for a telecaster build.

Here’s a picture of the finished guitar.  Nice work Peter!

We’ve just cut into an incredible log that yielded several beautiful white curly maple archtop blanks.  A full 9 1/2″ of incredible figure on nicely quartersawn billets.

Check it out!

Here’s a closer look! We’ll get 4 Archtop Guitar Blanks out of this piece.

And the endgrain!

This wood will be available for sale at Vedder Mountain Hardwoods over the next few months.  If you’d like to preorder a billet, please contact Christina for more details.

We’re going to get a lot of amazing guitar tops out of this one.  Unbelievable inklines and it’s got strong curly figure right through to the pith….Amazing Wood!

Check out the figure in the break off…

And the Inklines

You’ve gotta love it!