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Collings New D1A using Spanish Cedar from Terra Tonewoods.

Our Red Mountain Spanish Cedar comes from Peru and are exclusively offered in acoustic sets by Terra Tonewoods. It is dense and solid and has all the qualities of traditional Spanish Cedar but, unlike it’s cousin, this cedar specie does not ooozz sap from it’s pores. We found this high elevation species a dream to work with.

Spectacular color, quality and stability. Collings Guitars, they understand great wood!

Terra Tonewoods, we are out sourcing for you!

D1A for sale: GRYPHON

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Lance Peck marking out back and side sets on Spanish Cedar in Peru.

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

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.

Manchinga has an interesting spalt-like figure on a light-tan to grayish-tan field. The grain of this unusual wood ranges from a fine-grained texture that is similar to a light-colored mahogany, to smooth fields of tan or grey-tan. Manchinga has small pores and is a medium weight wood that weights 47 pounds per cubic foot. It has moderate flexibility which helps this wood to deliver a medium to bright tone when used for backboards and rims.