Lutherie Suppliers 2Sand.com, the internet's premier supplier of sanding belts, sand belt, sanding discs, 16 x 48 sanding belt and sanding supplies. A & M Wood Specialty Inc. variety of tonewoods. Acoustic Woods Ltd. Hand pick your own Tonewoods online; variety of back and sides and soundboards to choose from. Airware America respirators, other health and safety equipment. Alaska Specialty Woods, “Woods for the world’s music, in harmony with the land.” Sitka spruce, Western red cedar, Alaska yellow cedar, Western hemlock and red alder; all acquired from old growth, salvage, dead and down timber on public and private lands; none from clear cutting operations. Albertidesign, Violin, guitar and bow making tools of our own design. Unique tools for professional builders and restorers. Allen Guitars East Indian rosewood, Sitka and German spruce, red cedar, maple, Honduras mahogany, ebony, tail pieces, resophonic parts, shell, rosettes. Allied Electronics comprehensive. Allied Lutherie Ltd variety of tonewoods, rosettes, veneers, shell. Allparts bridges, pickups, pickguards, tuners. Allred & Associates, Inc. carving machines for archtops and necks. Alpentonholz provides best European spruce (picea abies) as well as figured malpe (acer pseudoplatanus) from Bosnia and Germany to customers worldwide. Anderson Musical Instrument Insurance Solutions, LLC. Lutherie insurance. Antique Electronic Supply has the largest supply of new old stock and current production vacuum tubes in the world. Also has an enormous supply of parts, supplies and literature for your vacuum tube equipment. Aqua Blue Maui, LLC shell, laminates. Audible Steel™, premium bent steel saddles for S-style guitars with extra hardware Australian Luthiers Supplies, tonewoods and parts. Located in Mount Tamborine, Australia. Axes ‘R’ Us guitar parts UK, new and used, online store. L.R. Baggs pickups, transducers, pre-amps. Balsam Banjoworks, banjo hardware all made in the USA. Maderas Barber S.L. variety of tonewoods, rosettes. Located in Spain. Barbera Transducer Systems, ultra high performance pickups with separate transducers for each string for violin, electric violins, cello, electric cellos, upright bass and electric upright bass. Best Guitar Parts, a variety of parts for electric guitars and basses. Bitterroot Guitars is a retail and wholesale supplier a mid to upper mid quality parts for builders. Bjorn Industries hide glue only, many grades, min. order 5 lbs. (carries Milligan and Higgins — see below). JS Bogdanovich Guitars, woodworking DVDs, hand plane kits and tools. Boone Trading Company offer a comprehensive selection of legal raw new and fossil ivory and scrimshaw for collectors and craftspeople. David Borson Maximum Yield Resawing, your fine woods cut precisely to maximize the yield of usable slices. Brenner USA. Custom machine shop offering piezo hybrid guitar conversion saddles, and custom machined guitar hardware including tremelos, B+G benders, and adjustable height roller nuts. Bridge City Tool Works exquisite hand woodworking tools. Bulldog UK are suppliers of new and used sheet metal working machinery, specialists in rollforming folding and coil processing. BWC Company is the leading online reseller of hard to find finishing products. Canadian Ivory offers walrus and narwhal ivory for carvers and knifemakers as whole tusks or pieces of varying sizes and shapes. Carvin electric guitar components, 5/8" dome knobs, pickups, preamps, bridges. Cascadia Woodcraft and Lutherie Supply supplying all your to lutherie needs, figured hardwoods, quality softwood tonewoods, structural and decorative parts for stringed instruments of all varieties. Centerpiece Tonewoods Corporation, tonewoods. Commercial Forest Products, various exotic woods. Constantine’s veneers, kits, hand tools, full line of finishing products including their own brand, Hydrocote, Behlen. Glues including Hot Stuff,™ Excel polyurethane glue, Gorilla, hide, hand tools, full line of finishing products including their own brand, Hydrocote, Behlen. Glues including Hot Stuff,™ Excel polyurethane glue, Gorilla, hide, shell, wood inlay. Cook Woods specializing in exotic hardwoods of the world. Countryman Associates condenser microphones only. cureUV.com is a supplier of UV guitar and wood finishing products. DePaule Supply shell Blanks, Pre-Cut Inlays, Pearl Nuts & Saddles and more, NO MINIMUM ORDER. Still shipping International. Diefenbacher Tools specializes in hand tools for woodworkers. They have a growing catalog of edge tools specifically designed for instrument making. DiMarzio magnetic pickups. Distinctive Timbers Tasmania - Tasmanias largest range of fine Timber and Tonewood’s - www.buytasmaniantimbersonline.com.au - www.distinctivetimbers.com.au Duke of Pearl, for over 40 years the world's leading supplier of shell for inlay, and co-inventor of Abalam. Jim Dunlop Manufacturing, USA, fretwire. Eady Guitars. Repair, finish and custom guitar building. The Early Music Shop. Early musical instruments, kits, etc. Elderly Instruments tuners, bridges, banjo and resonator guitar parts. ELEVATE carries unique, professional-grade tools specifically made for luthiers, plus products and services. EMG also piezo. Exotic Woods Zone supplies guitar products like ebony and rosewood fingerboard, bridges, headplates, neck wood, rosewood Back & Sides etc. Fake 58, specialising in reproduction parts for vintage electric guitars. Fiddleback Woodshack, acoustic and electric parts Fishman Transducers also magnetic pickups. Lindy Fralin magnetic pickups. Flying Pig Music is a retail music store that carries a wide selection of new and used guitar parts online. They have been in business for over 10 years and ship nationwide. Galco Industrial Electronics - comprehensive. Gamut Music Inc - high quality handmade gut strings for a variety of instruments. Gemini, carbon fiber reinforcements and luthier tools. Gilbert Tuners classical guitar tuners. Gilmer Wood Company exotic and domestic hardwoods, cedars, spruces. GJ Tonewood, LLC. Offers a wide variety of tonewoods (your local source for Ebony, Rosewood and Redwood), cigar boxes and supplies for luthiers. We are adding more and more every week. No minimum order….we work with luthiers of all sizes! Gluboost, Best in Class line of guitar repair and build products including GluDry Non Blushing Accelerator, Both Flexible and Structural CA products, Full array of Mix + Match Tints, as well as unique build and repair accessory items. Goby Walnut Products figured claro walnut, English walnut. Gore Guitars, book. GoStrings LLC. offers viola strings, viola outfits, bow cases and other musical accessories from some of the best brands at low shipping rates. C.A. Götz, Jr. variety of tonewoods. Grainger offers a variety of safety products, material handling, industrial supplies and more. Graphic Transfer high speed engraving/carving tools and supplies. Griffin Exotic Wood, we supply ebony, african blackwood, snakewood fretboards, and 65 other types of exotic wood. Gurian Instruments veneers, parts, laminates, laser related products, purflings, bindings, custom laminates. HB Steel, Harry Brainum, Jr. Inc. providers of Quality Steel Products, HVAC duct, coils, diamond plate, cold rolled steel, galvanized steel & galvanized sheet metal supplier. Place an order for products online. Hawaiian Hardwoods Direct, the premier source for Hawaiian tonewoods. Curly Koa and Curly Mango guitar sets and ukulele sets. They also supply various other luthier, and turning supplies. Hibdon Hardwood, Inc. Honduras mahogany, Spanish cedar, various rosewoods. High Mountain Tonewood Company, Stika, Engelmann and White spruce, Red and Yellow Cedar and Paper Birch. Located in Terrace, British Colombia, Canada. Hipshot Products multiple tuning bridges, bass extender keys, special tuners. Howard Core, wholesaler of stringed instruments and accessories, and also offer a full line of luthier supplies. Inlay Banding, variety of bandings made from genuine hardwoods. Inlay Product World wood inlay, marquetry. International Violin Co., Ltd. variety of tonewoods, specialty tools for luthiers, oil and spirit varnish, Micro-mesh® abrasives, purflings, bow inlay. Tom Jones custom pickups for guitars and other instruments. K&K Sound Systems custom transducer sytems, all stringed insturments. Karura Cases makes custom carbon fiber guitar flight cases for acoustic guitars. Klingspor Woodworking Shop, abrasives, tools, and finishes for woodworkers. Also offers a line of both domestic and exotic veneers and woods. Koality Woods, supply koa ukulele and koa guitar instrument sets for both acoustic and electric guitars. Kremer Pigments, Inc. artists’ supply (including wood finishing): pigments, shellacs, resins, oils, varnishes, hide glues, books. KSM Guitars, bass bridge. Lee Valley, luthier tools and supplies. Lemur Music, specializing in the Double Bass. They carry endpins, bridges, tailpieces, soundposts, tuning machines, pick ups, strings...everything for the Double Bassist. Luthier Suppliers. We specialize in Birch Ply radius dishes, custom guitar jigs, and Binder Router bit sets. Luthier’s Friend. A precision sanding station from Ken Picou the maker of the Robo-Sander™. Luthimate sells lutherie tools, guitar parts and wood. Located in Michery, France. MOP Supplies has a variety of shell inlay material i.e.; Paua, Mother of Pearl, abalone and many more in the form of blanks, veneers, dots, strips. MSC Industrial Supply Co. comprehensive, largely industrial tools and accessories. MacBeath Hardwood veneers, hardwoods. Dave Maize redwood, Port Orford Cedar, Figured walnut, myrtle, and other native and exotic species; specializing in fine reclaimed and salvaged tonewoods. McMaster-Carr nuts/bolts, latex rubber, files. Graham McDonald, mandolin, bouzouki and ukulele books Metropolitan Music Online have been supplying violin stores with wood and tools for almost a century. They manufacture te Juzek reamers and the Ibex planes in Stowe, VT. Milligan and Higgins the only hide glue manufacturer in North America. Sells in 50-lb. minimum quantities. Jay Utzig (ext. 18) is head of technical matters and will be glad to help you, including helping you find a source for fewer than 50 lbs. The really high-quality clear stuff is called 192-gram Technical Gel. Micro-Surface Finishing Prod. Inc. manufacturers of Micro-mesh,® a long-lasting cushioned abrasive. Mirco Mark variety of small hand and power tools. Moses, Inc. graphite necks, reinforcement stock. Mouser Electronics comprehensive. Music Spruce Canada, Daryl Bjarnason. Engelmann spruce tonewood for stringed instruments. Tops for acoustic guitars, mandolins, and violins. Bearclaw figured wood. Split or sawn bracewood. Custom products as requested. Musicmaker’s Kits variety of kits, wood bindings, rosettes. Neutrik USA, Inc. cables, connectors, jacks. Newark Electronics comprehensive. North Bay Forge, hand forged wood carving tools since 1987 - straight knives, bent knives, drawknives, adzes. Northwest Timber figured maple, walnut, myrtle, online store. Notable Woods koa, walnut, bigleaf maple Sitka spruce. Oakwood Veneer, wood veneer supplier, specializing in exotic, burl, and domestic veneers on all backers. Old Standard Wood, 30 years supplying Red Spruce/Adirondack, eastern curly maple and torrified red spruce. Old Wood Colours & Varnishes SL, a company focused on string instruments finishing ( grounds, varnishes, natural colours). Old World Tonewood Co., supplies Carpathian Spruce (Picea abies) and European “Sycamore” Maple (Acer pseudoplantanus) tonewood. Orcas Island Tonewoods spruces, cedars, maples, others. Pacific Rim Tonewoods has been supplying premium wood to guitar makers and luthiers for over 30 years. Sonically graded spruce, maple, koa, binding and other unique sets in our vault. Pegasus Guitars & Ukuleles koa sets. Pentacle India manufacturer of and specialized in violin, viola, cello and bass fittings and accessories. Petros Guitars Purflex™ Backstrips, rosettes uke rosettes, buttons, position markers, pins, strap buttons, truss rod covers, Taylor TRC’s, Purflex® Ultra flexible lining. Pianowood Kölbl GmbH, specializing in piano parts and soundboards. Located in Aigen, Austria. Pioneer Valley Luthier Supply, variety of supplies and tools for bow makers, repairers and restorers. Portland Guitar provides custom bridges purfling and tonewoods. Potvin Guitars, offering a line of guitar-building templates, jigs, and support to the guitar-building community. Price Fiberglass Cases. Protective cases for dreadnought guitar, banjo and mandolin. Q-tuner manufacture high-tech neodymium powered pickups for guitar and bass. RC Tonewood and Sons carry a wide variety of tonewood. Located in Kenmore, New York. RMC Pickup Co. (McClish) Piezo pickups and condensor mics. RS Electrical Supply is a contractors of circuit breakers, fuse holders, switchgears,mounting hardware, motor control centers, contactors, starters of all the leading brands. Randle Woods figured bigleaf maple, Sitka spruce. Redwood Salvage Sales, instrument quality redwood for luthiers. Exotic grains due to being sunk in Deep River for over 100 years. The Rescue Pearl Company pearl, abalone, pickguards, no minimum. Rio Grande Pickups magnetic pickups, inlay materials. Rivolta Snc, located in Italy and has been working wood for a century dealing in various species of tonewoods. Rodgers Tuning Machines quality tuners for classic and steel string guitars. J.M. Rolph Pickups new “vintage,” rewinds/repairs. SRK Overseas Private Limited exporters & wholesale suppliers of accessories for violin, viola, cello, bass, piano & guitar for over a decade. S.V.S. Tonewoods violin European maple and spruce (open 4PM — 8PM). Seymour Duncan magnetic pickups. Sinopia Pigments & Materials, purveyors of traditional materials such as turps, resins, shellac, e tc. Daniel Smith comprehensive artist materials Bob Smith Industries full line of epoxies and superglues. Sold direct in large quantities or retail through hobby stores. Call for locations in your area. Southern Tonewoods, tonewoods, tools and accessories. Specialty Violin Making Products European maple and spruce. Larry Stamm Douglas fir, red cedar, Engelmann, flamed white birch for guitar, mando, violin. Les Stansell Guitars Oregon myrtlewood, Port Orford white cedar. Stewart-MacDonald’s Guitar Shop Supply offers a wide variety of tonewoods, tools for luthiers, hardware, supplies, full line of finishing, gluing, and related products: hide glue, epoxies, spraying apparatus, Behlen products, shellac, lacquer, tints, water-base finish, etc. Good selection of lutherie books and videos. String Emporium, sells upright basses plus all kinds of bows, covers, travel cases and strings. Sunrise Pickup Systems magnetic pickups. Tasmanian Acoustic Tonewood. Reliable supplier of Tasmanian Blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), which is closely related to koa. Located in Devonport, Tasmania (Australia) Tasmanian Salvaged Resurrection Timbers Pty Ltd. We supply high quality salvaged Tasmanian forest timber to woodturners & craftsmen world-wide. Located in Tasmania, Australia. Terrco, Inc. carving machines for archtops and necks. Timbre Tonewood Ltd. Sitka, Engelmann, red cedar. Timeless Instruments variety of tonewoods, lutherie tools and hardware. Tonetech Ltd., UK supplier of materials to guitar and other stringed instrument makers. Tonewood Switzerland, Florinett AG European spruce. Turners Retreat the woodworkers source. Ultra Speed Products, Inc. electric carving tool. Upton Basses is dedicated to the double bass. Various double basses, accessories and services. USA Custom Guitars componenent for electrics including necks, bodies, finishes and wood. UV III Systems supplier of an economical high speed uv drying equipment. Victor Machinery Exchange Inc., industrial supplier specializing in machine shop supplies, metal-cutting tools, and precision measuring instruments. Vikwood ebony, rosewoods, spruce, cedar, mahogany, boganga. WD Music Products electronics (several brands of pickups), pickguards, knobs, tuners. Warmoth components for electrics including woods, hardware, pickguard material, several brands of pickups. West Penn Hardwoods West Wind Hardwood Inc. hardwoods, softwoods, specialty plywood and veneers. Wood Carvers Supply, Inc. chisels, knives, small woodworking tools. Wood Finish Supply full line of wood finishing products and glues including brushes, shellac, lacquer, varnishes, dyes; Hot Stuff™, epoxy, and hide glues. Wood From the West, recovered tonewood. Woodcraft Supply variety of quality hand tools, woodworking supplies, and hardware (many U.S. retail locations). Woodhaven, (Uncommon Woodworking Tools) jigs for power tools, router plates and bits, layout tools. Woodworker’s Supply a great number of tools that are useful for luthiers. Yamahiko, Yamahiko, double bass pickup supplier located in Japan.
