Soundboards.
How we grade our soundboards.
As the name suggests, the soundboard is the most important part of your selection process. Our grading criteria are uncompromising for this reason, and we will endeavour to offer you the best soundboards available.
Scroll down to see a selection from our stocks of spruce and cedar tops and bracing wood
see home page for contact details and full carriage costs details.
Dimensions
Classical size 530mm x 190mm x 4.5mm (2x)
Western size 550mm x 215mm x 4.5mm (2x)
Jumbo & Acoustic Bass 575mm x 240mm x 4.5mm (2x)
Scroll down to see a selection from our stocks of spruce and cedar tops and bracing wood
see home page for contact details and full carriage costs details.
Dimensions
Classical size 530mm x 190mm x 4.5mm (2x)
Western size 550mm x 215mm x 4.5mm (2x)
Jumbo & Acoustic Bass 575mm x 240mm x 4.5mm (2x)
Sitka spruce soundboards.
Sitka spruce is a very strong, stiff material and is well established as the first choice in American guitar manufacturing, and although it is not a traditional material for classical guitars there are some makers that use it to very good effect.
German spruce soundboards.
This is the preferred material for most classical guitar makers, because of its even warm tonal characteristics, it can also make a superb steel string guitar. Our stocks are from old growth trees from high altitude and are perfect for high quality soundboards. making high grade tops very hard to come by.
Western red cedar
Western red cedar, a good value soundboard, which can produce a good quality loud instrument although it is not as robust a wood as spruce and therefore prone to damage.