Description
Discover the Unique Beauty of Spalted Red Alder Guitar Body Blanks
Unleash your creativity with spalted red alder guitar body blanks featuring captivating light spalting with white accents. These 2-piece booksets are ideal for luthiers and custom guitar builders seeking a distinctive aesthetic combined with renowned tonal characteristics. A spalted red alder guitar body offers a superb foundation for your next instrument, delivering both visual appeal and acoustic performance that discerning craftspeople demand.
Enhanced Tonal Resonance and Playability
Our carefully selected red alder guitar body blanks are celebrated for their balanced and resonant tone profile. Red alder is a favorite among guitar makers for its clear, full-bodied mids, firm lows, and articulate highs, delivering a versatile sound that performs exceptionally across various genres. The wood’s inherent characteristics contribute to excellent sustain and responsive feel. When used as a guitar body blank, this tonewood produces instruments with superior projection and tonal clarity, making it an outstanding choice for electric guitars and custom builds.
Technical Specifications
- Wood Species: Red Alder (Alnus rubra)
- Spalting: Lightly spalted with white accents
- Construction: 2-piece bookset
- Grain Orientation: Mostly quartersawn with some flat sawn sections
- Application: Solid guitar body blanks for electric guitars and custom instruments
- Grading: Professional luthier-grade tonewood
100% Old Growth Reclaimed Wood Guarantee
Every blank originates from naturally fallen or salvage-recovered trees, never from clear-cutting operations. This sustainable approach preserves old-growth forests while providing luthiers access to tonewood with centuries of natural seasoning. Our EarthTone Soundboards™ represent the environmental gold standard in tonewood production, ensuring your instruments support responsible forestry practices.
Quality & Durability Assurance
Alaska Specialty Woods’ 30+ years of expertise ensures each spalted red alder guitar body set meets rigorous structural and aesthetic standards. Our comprehensive grading system evaluates visual appearance, grain slope, stiffness, and resonant properties to guarantee consistency. Professional luthiers worldwide rely on our rigorous quality assessment for their finest instruments, knowing that each guitar body blank has been carefully vetted for both workability and acoustic performance.





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