Custom Acoustic Guitar Tonewoods

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. We have on hand, at all times, a wide selection of premium exotic and domestic guitar tonewoods for you to select from for your custom Lichty guitar.

While it is really a thrill to come to the shop and to dig through our stash of wonderful woods to find the set that has your name on it, we also feature all available sets on our website so that our customers from around the world can go through the same selection process.

Read more about chosing 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.