Lutz - Traditional Tonewood Mot Grade AA – color bands and

AA – color bands and compression rings allowed

we offer only 51% of the wood that we test

Long used for ukuleles

we only select the upper 60% of tested soundboards for this characteristic

We offer two grades

Lutz - Traditional Tonewood Mot Grade AA – color bands andAt Pacific Rim Tonewoods, we personally select each of our spruce logs. We split those logs into wedge shaped blocks, focusing on maximizing quality while minimizing any twist that a log might have. Our sawyers then cut these blocks into exactingly quartered boards, locking in the radial stiffness. These boards are air dried, then finished over a period of 3 4 weeks in our dehumidification kiln, reaching a final moisture content of 8. 5%. When dry,