Category: Luthiers Wood and Supplies dealers
Maderas Barber Reforestation Project – A planted tree for every order Maderas Barber Reforestation Project – A planted tree for every order Just as your read, Maderas Barber plants a tree for every received order involving all its customers in its reforestation project in collaboration with Tree-Nation. To date, they have planted over 6000 […]
Tonewood for Violin Makers Bois de Lutherie Aigrisse For those of you who don’t know you yet, can you tell us about your company. Is it a family business or not? How many employees do you have? Do you have any specialties as a Wood & Supplies Dealer? Do you do anything other […]
Pernambuco bows and musicians : CITES update Pernambuco bows and musicians Jacques Carbonneaux, member of the Chambre Syndicale de la Facture Instrumentale (CSFI) gives us an update on the current legislation. While international regulations on wood and other endangered species of fauna and flora impact musical instrument manufacturers and traders, it should not […]
Archets en pernambouc et musiciens : point sur la CITES Archets en pernambouc et musiciens Jacques Carbonneaux, membre de l’équipe de la Chambre Syndicale de la Facture Instrumentale (CSFI) nous fait un point sur la législation en cours. Si les réglementations internationales des bois et autres espèces menacées de la faune et […]
Tasmanian Acoustic Tonewood Interview 6 How to buy For our professional Internet users who wish to order wood and your other products from your company, can you tell us how they should go about it? Do you have an e-commerce website so that customers can order and track the delivery of their purchases? How […]
Tasmanian Acoustic Tonewood Interview 5 Tonewoods Sets and Sizing Chart As we have just mentioned the instrument sets in our previous article, can you give us the list of the instrument sets you offer? For example: acoustic guitar set, electric guitar set, ukulele set, etc.? All of the above and anything acoustic […]
Tasmanian Acoustic Tonewood Interview 4 Manufacturing process For some of our Internet users who are not yet very familiar with the techniques related to your profession, can you explain us your complete manufacturing process. From the birth of a tree to the making of a set for an instrument? There are […]
Tasmanian Acoustic Tonewood Interview 3 Flagship productions Can you tell us about your flagship productions? What are the most common requests, and at the same time the rarest requests? Are you in a position to answer all types of requests for your luthier clients when they have custom model projects with rare or […]
Tasmanian Acoustic Tonewood Interview 2 Tonewood Can you tell us about different types of wood that are specific to your region? Are there particularities to your region or country in terms of production possibilities? Are you subject to special laws or production limitations each year? We’re very lucky in Tasmanian with […]
Tasmanian Acoustic Tonewood Interview 1 Background For those of you who don’t know you yet, can you tell us about your company. Is it a family business or not? How many employees do you have? Do you have any specialties as a Wood & Supplies Dealer? Do you do anything other than ToneWood? […]
Ewen d’Aviau Luthier Interview 1 Background Ewen d’Aviau Luthier – Pour celles et ceux qui ne te connaissent pas encore, peux-tu nous parler de ton parcours ? As-tu fait une école de lutherie ? J’ai fait la formation complémentaire de Lutherie au Lycée Georges Sand de la Châtre. C’est une formation […]
Northwest Timber Figured Hardwoods Interview 2 Tonewood Can you tell us about different types of wood that are specific to your region? The Pacific Northwest forests are a temperate rainforest with Douglas Fir, a soft wood, in the majority. The secondary woods, not as plentiful, are Cedar, Spruce, Maple and Pine. Some […]
Northwest Timber Figured Hardwoods Interview 1 Background For those of you who don’t know you yet, can you tell us about your company. Is it a family business or not? How many employees do you have? Do you have any specialties as a Wood & Supplies Dealer? Do you do anything other than […]
Roadrunner Guitars Interview 3 Custom Made Guitar Pickups You are a big fan and collector of vintage pickups, we know your love and respect for the work of Paul Bigsby, can you tell us about your CAR pickups series? Yes it’s true, I’m a bit obsessed about microphones, their looks and sounds… […]
Roadrunner Guitars Interview 2 Custom Made Guitar Parts The people who follow you know that you create custom-made guitar parts. Recently we saw on social networks that you have created a series of bridges from aluminium blocks, can you explain how you manage to adjust the tuning which seems much less simple than […]