Sitka - Traditional Tonewood Size:Dreadnought AA – color bands and

AA – color bands and compression rings allowed

Stiffness within 10% of the mean

locking in the radial stiffness

AAAA – our best soundboard visually

From here the boards are air dried

Sitka - Traditional Tonewood Size:Dreadnought AA – color bands andAt Pacific Rim Tonewoods, we personally select all of our spruce logs. We split those logs into guitar top blocks, focusing on maximizing quality while minimizing any twist that a log might have. The sawyer then cuts the blocks into quartered boards, locking in the radial stiffness. From here the boards are air dried, then finished over a period of 3 4 weeks in our dehumidification kiln, to a final moisture content of 8. 5%. The boards are then resawn