Tonewoods

[Mikeg]

I wasnt sure where to put this so feel free to moove it.
Ive been having a litle trouble finding a good suplier of wood for a project, im looking for either ash or alder at cheap as possible price.
Any advise?
Cheers
Mike

[deepbass5]

check out

[url="http://www.woodland-gmbh.de"]http://www.woodland-gmbh.de[/url]

Helps if you speak German, but he makes great basses and supplies loads of the main manufacturers

Edited July 5, 2011 by deepbass5

[tommorichards]

I found this site

[url="http://www.tonetechluthiersupplies.co.uk/Timber-Parts-and-Tonewood/View-all-products.html?TreeId=12"]http://www.tonetechluthiersupplies.co.uk/T....html?TreeId=12[/url]


Although i picked up some sapele and pine at a local huws gray.

[Mikeg]

[quote name='deepbass5' post='1293885' date='Jul 5 2011, 08:24 PM']check out

[url="http://www.woodland-gmbh.de"]http://www.woodland-gmbh.de[/url]

Helps if you speak German, but he makes great basses and supplies loads of the main manufacturers[/quote]
Currently doing a gcse in german, I may be ok
Ive got a very tight budget though and shipping costs seems to be the killer

[RhysP]

Best place in the UK is probably Touchstone Tonewoods:

[url="http://www.touchstonetonewoods.co.uk/"]http://www.touchstonetonewoods.co.uk/[/url]

[Mr. Foxen]

If you have a big saw, check out recovery places, have all sorts turn up, birdseye maple floorboards have been known.

[rockpig]

I've used all of these in the past. David Dyke is probably the best as he has been supplying tonewoods for 30 odd years.

[url="http://www.lmii.com/"]http://www.lmii.com/[/url] Luthiers mercantile an american company very broad range.
[url="http://www.tonetechluthiersupplies.co.uk/"]http://www.tonetechluthiersupplies.co.uk/[/url] based in the north of England, range can be a bit limited got some spectacluar burl maple off them one time.
[url="http://www.luthierssupplies.co.uk/"]http://www.luthierssupplies.co.uk/[/url] David Dyke see above.
[url="http://www.tonewood.ca/"]http://www.tonewood.ca/[/url] Canadian checkout there website for some stunning figured timbers.
[url="http://www.guitartonewoods4luthiers.co.uk/"]http://www.guitartonewoods4luthiers.co.uk/[/url] UK based very quick got a maple back and sides set of them, bought lowest grade figure and it had a stunning flame across the sides and a very nice flame to the back as well.
[url="http://www.stewmac.com/"]http://www.stewmac.com/[/url] does some woods but is more of a specialist tools shop.

hope this helps.

[JPJ]

I've just purchased some 0.7mm quilt maple veneer from [url="http://www.rosebudveneer.com"]www.rosebudveneer.com [/url]in Kentucky USA. Excellent quality product (no voids or splits) great figure (better than the ebay pictures!) and delivered in 6 days.

[Truckstop]

+1 on finding a source yourself

Plenty of Foresters and Tree Surgeons keep offcuts to sell mega cheap. If you ask them nicely they might even cut it to size for you. I've got plenty of wood from the English Garden and Tree Co. in South Mimms before. Probably not the most amazing quality, but it's cheap and good for practicing.

Truckstop

[Al Heeley]

theres a big specialist timber merchants in Boroughbridge up the A1 that I've used a lot for various pieces in the past - great to search through all the shelves of hardwoods and figured planks, a lot of interesting and exotic woods stocked but they dont do many small pieces so you need a big car.

[url="http://www.john-boddy-timber.ltd.uk/"]http://www.john-boddy-timber.ltd.uk/[/url]

[Mikeg]

[quote name='Al Heeley' post='1296214' date='Jul 7 2011, 05:52 PM']theres a big specialist timber merchants in Boroughbridge up the A1 that I've used a lot for various pieces in the past - great to search through all the shelves of hardwoods and figured planks, a lot of interesting and exotic woods stocked but they dont do many small pieces so you need a big car.

[url="http://www.john-boddy-timber.ltd.uk/"]http://www.john-boddy-timber.ltd.uk/[/url][/quote]
Well im two years off being old enough to get a driving licence
Thanks for all the help guys ill check these places out.