WESTERN REDCEDAR
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Western Redcedar
Price
PART No. Description Each 6 - 12
13 - 24
Steel string, best $70.00
$65.00
— Classic, best $70.00
$65.00 — Steel string, fine $45.00
$41.00
Classic string, fine $45.00
$41.00
Steel/Classic string, good $25.00
$21.00
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Classic, 2nd, export grade Inquire
Cedar shake blocks are sorted for color and grain and then become guitar blocks.
Maderas Barber (factory pictured below, grading out cedar soundboards) cuts more Western redcedar tops than anyone in the world, which leaves them with good quantities of higher grade cedar soundboards.
Used primarily by classic guitarmakers, Western redcedar (Thuja plicata) is light and stiff, and can be rather fragile. Although it's used by factories in great quantities in Spain, it would probably be used more in the States in factories if it didn't dent so easily. Cedar is known for producing a loud, warm, and a mature sound almost immediately upon completion of the guitar. Among notable steel string makers, James Olsen and Kevin Ryan are big fans. We can occasionally get interior or mountain redcedar as it's sometimes called, which is a little
different than the coastal redcedar that dominates the market. It's generally more colorful, and stronger. You can flex it without breaking it.
Left and above, cedar-topped guitar by Jeff Elliott. Note chip carving outlining the rosette. This top is paired with a cocobolo back featured on the cocobolo page.
Left, cedar-topped steel string from CFOX Guitars. (Click to enlarge.) Right, Classic guitar by fine builder, Paul Jacobson.
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