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Sustainable Tonewood Suppliers: timber and tonewood suppliers who offer sustainably-sourced tonewoods suitable for instrument-making
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Alaska Specialty Woods uses 100% salvage sourced old growth Sitka Spruce timber that is procured locally (source). Their sustainable soundboards, Earth-Tone Soundboards, are woods native to Alaska, such as Sitka Spruce and Western Red Cedar. |
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Kirby Fine Timber is a wholesale supplier of furniture timber and tonewoods that is committed to sustainable harvesting practices. Kirby Fine Timber sustainably manages rainforest timber plantations for harvesting and logs on private land in North Queensland in a 40-year cycle. |
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Oregon Wild Wood supplies tonewoods that are all from sustainable sources, salvaged, re-purposed, or reclaimed. Certificates of Origin for the woods are available on their website. Oregon Wild Wood is also a supplier of mandolin tonewoods and ukulele tonewoods. |
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Overseas Traders provide FSC-certified, legally obtained and CITES-compliant tonewoods and only source from dead and fallen trees that have died of natural causes in Karanataka, India. |
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Pacific Rim Tonewoods is committed to environmentally-friendly forest stewardship practices and sustainability. One of their projects, Paniolo Tonewoods, in partnership with Taylor Guitars, is an effort to bring ethically-sourced tonewoods to market while replanting and reforesting Hawaiian forests. Steve McMinn, the founder of PRT, is focused on tree research projects to develop more sustainable practices and protect trees and guitar making for the future. In the past, Pacific Rim Tonewoods has collaborated with Taylor Guitars to sell guitars that benefited international clean water projects. |
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Unique Woods of the Northwest, "Operating in Elmira, Oregon USA, Unique Woods of the Northwest is a member of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), specializing in providing custom-milled Western hardwoods. All woods sustainably sourced from the Pacific Northwest Rainforest." (source) |
