Wood Choices

We offer a wide variety of woods from which your instrument may be built. Your choice of wood will be influenced by the resulting tone you desire and, of course, your aesthetic preferences. Here are 3 resources to give you more information about how your wood choice will affect the tone of your ukulele:

Watch a Video

wood selection video

 

Read an Article

article

The Acoustics of Wood

Listen to Sound Samples

listen

 

Back & Side Woods

Use the interactive graphic below to consider different woods along the
warm->bright spectrum. Click on a wood to get details and links to the gallery to browse instruments constructed from your selection.

Remember, all of our instruments have that great
Mya-Moe tone, sustain & volume.

Filter by:

 

 

 

warm to bright spectrum

 

 

Top Woods
Match Back & Side Wood

For a standard ukulele, not all woods are suitable for use on the top. You may choose a top wood to match the following woods used for back & side woods:

Koa

Mahogany

Mango

Sycamore

Myrtle

If you are selecting a top wood for a resonator ukulele, you can match any back & side wood.

 

Cedar and Redwood

Choose Cedar or Redwood to "warm" up a brighter wood. Available varieties include:

 

Port Orford Cedar

port orford cedar example

Biscuit Ridge Fire Port Orford Cedar

biscuit ridge fire port orford cedar example

Western Red Cedar

western red cedar example

 

Straight-grained Redwood

straight-grained redwood example

Bird's Eye Redwood
(soprano sizes only)

bird's eye redwood example

Curly (or "Flame") Redwood

curly redwood example

 

Spruce

Choose Spruce to "brighten" up a warmer wood. Available in the following varieties:

 

Sitka Spruce

sitka spruce example

Bearclaw Sitka Spruce

bearclaw sitka spruce example

Engelmann Spruce

engelmann spruce example

 

 

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