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Peru. Quinilla dry forest plot at Picota, Área de Conservación Municipal de Pïcota.  We found crude roads leading to illegal lumbering plots where many recently fell Quinillas (Manilkara bidentata) were discovered.

Photo: Lance Peck, owner of Terra Tonewoods, with Rainer Schulte at one such site inside the conservation area. Photo by Belinda Peck.

Quinilla Dry Forest

NEW Collings OM2HA in Sacha Rosewood from Terra Tonewoods!

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Not content to let the dwindling supply of exotic rosewoods diminsh their capacity to make great guitars, our friends at Collings have introduced a limited number of instruments made with Sacha Rosewood back & sides. This South American tonewood offers plenty of punch in the low end, but with less darkness than Brazilian (think Cocobolo). Lots of chime and sparkle in the high end, and a round, warm midrange make this an exceptional fingerstyle guitar; but it handles a pick just fine and sounds punchy and crisp tackling fiddle tunes.

Brilliant job Michael Greenfield! See his new G4.2 DADGAD

A word from Michael too:
“It shipped last week. Some of my best work to date. A special thanx to Mike Baranik and Terra Tonewoods for the fantastic customer service and the spectacular set of spalted Peruvian Manchinga this guitar is made of.”

Model G4.2 http://www.greenfieldguitars.com/gg2.aspx?class=GG&section=64&storyid=132#

Sacha Rosewood from Terra Tonewoods.
“Collings D2HA Adirondack Spruce and Sacha Rosewood “.

Artisan Guitars wrote:
“Played in tandem with another D2HA with standard Indian Rosewood back and sides, the contrast is striking. While both are wonderfully defined in the trebles, with a crisp defined bass note, the mid-range on the Sacha dreadnought was crystal clear, and almost dripping in resonance.”

Sacha Rosewood gets HIGH PRAISE!
We gotta hand it to Artisan Guitars for their very well written critique on the new Collings D2HA featuring Sacha Rosewood (Higuerilla) from Terra Tonewoods.

For the full read go to http://artisanguitars.com/collings-d2ha-adirondack-spruce-and-sacha-rosewood/

The new generation of tonewoods is not to be found in the commercial lumberyards.

The forests of Peru are basically unexplored for new musical species. Here Lance Peck, owner of Terra Tonewoods, in Peru looking through a standing stack of fresh cut lumber. This wood was probably cut for local domestic use and without proper permits. This unidentified wood may be a new species of Dalbergia, also known as “Rosewood”, which is a species that is very popular and important in the building of musical stringed instruments such as the acoustic guitar, harp guitar, mandolin, and the ukulele.