Current Offerings: Hardwoods

African Blackwood acoustic sets
American Sycamore quartered acoustic sets
Aspen, eastern bigtooth electric bodies
Black Cherry curl & crotch uncommitted flitches
Black Locust quartered acoustic sets, fingerboards and bridges
Butternut acoustic necks and electric bodies
Cocobolo acoustic sets
Ebony - Philippine acoustic sets, bridges & fingerboards from typhoon salvage
Honduras Mahogany acoustic sets from 1970s
Imbuya curly quartersawn acoustic sets
Koa curl acoustic sets from 1970s
Maple - Hard
    - Birdseye acoustic sets, necks
    - spalted Birdseye acoustic sets and uncommitted planks
    - blistered acoustic sets and uncommitted planks
    - curly acoustic sets, fingerboards and bridges
    - caramelized curly Hard acoustic sets, fingerboards and bridges
Maple - Red
    - curly acoustic sets, necks & mandolin slab & bookmatched sets
    - curly archback sets & electric tops
    - caramelized curly acoustic & mandolin sets
Mesquite burly acoustic sets
Morado (Pau Ferro) quartered acoustic sets
Osage Orange acoustic sets
Paldao quartered acoustic sets
Rosewood - Brazilian
    - acoustic sets from flood salvage
    - charred uncommitted flitches from 1940 / fire salvage
    - small acoustic sets from 1980s regrowth cants
Rosewood - Indian
    - acoustic sets from 1970s
Sapele pomele acoustic sets
Walnut - Bastone quartered acoustic sets
    - Black curly & plain acoustic sets
White Ash curl & crotch uncommitted flitch
Yakal  acoustic sets from shipwreck salvage

Soundboards
Red Spruce in all grades and sizes
    - large selection from new 2008 production
    - unprocessed split billets from 2002 / 2003
    - flat top and archtop guitars, mandolins and violins
Sitka Spruce
    - flat tops from 1970s
Redwood from 1850s goldrush railroad trestle
    - flat top guitars & mandolin wedges


NorthWind Tonewood
From the North Woods of New Hampshire we provide an eclectic mix of tonewoods to luthiers and manufacturers, specializing in alternative, sustainable and unique offerings.

Northwind Timber & Tonewood
Center Sandwich, New Hampshire
603-284-6123


Come join us for our Second Annual Autumn Tonewood Festival showing a rich variety of offerings in the company of luthiers of the New England Luthiers Group and New Hampshire Luthiers Guild at Al Carruth's studio 51 Camel Hump Road, off Route 10, 2 miles north of Newport Center, New Hampshire 03773.

All day Sunday, October 19, 2008. RSVP appreciated.

drykiln
Hybrid Solar/Dehumidifaction Kiln

Many of the hand hewn timbers used to build our studio came from an 1880s Amish Barn. We source and supply historical, salvaged and sustainable building materials and invite you to contact us regarding your interests and requirements.


NorthWind Tonewood presents its
Second Annual Tonewood Festival . . .

Come join fellow luthiers for a celebration of
traditional, alternative, unique and exotic
musical wood as sets, blanks,
and uncommitted flitches

Al Carruth's Studio
51 Camel Hump Road 
2 miles north of Newport Center off route 10
Newport, New Hampshire 03773
Sunday, October 19, 2008
All Day

Contact Northwind Tonewood for more information
603-284-6123