Luthiers supply houses

[Ogier]

Hey Mods, can we make this sticky???

ok, here are the websites that I have. If you have one that is not listed here, please post it.

Luthiers Mercantile: http://www.lmii.com/Default.asp
Stewart-MacDonald: http://www.stewmac.com/
Warmoth: http://www.warmoth.com/
WD Music: http://www.wdmusic.com/
Acme Guitar Works: http://www.acmeguitarworks.com/index.aspx
Guitar Parts USA: http://www.guitarpartsusa.com/
Elderly Instruments: http://www.elderly.com/welcome.htm
Guitar Fetish: http://store.yahoo.com/yhst-50206111187217/index.html

[Hessian]

http://www.grizzly.com/products/items-list.aspx?key=235

http://allparts.com/

[PlayerOfGuitar]

usacustomguitars.com (http://www.usacustomguitars.com)

[JacksonMIA]

Callaham Guitars and parts (http://www.callahamguitars.com)
Wymore Guitars (http://www.wymoreguitars.com) - Seymour Duncan pickups, CTS Pots, and more.

[grammer]

www.musiciansfriend.com yes, you CAN buy guitar parts there 2

[TomN]

www.tfntechnologies.com Custom Strat wiring products.

I'm so sorry. I feel "This big now"

[martinedwards]

David Dyke (http://www.luthierssupplies.co.uk/)
http://dm-guitars.co.uk/luthier-supplies.htm
http://www.craft-supplies.co.uk/
http://madinter.com/b2c/index.php?idioma=2
http://www.touchstonetonewoods.co.uk/ and a load of other links..... (http://www.vanedwards.co.uk/suppliers.htm)


I've used David Dyke, StewMac, Guitar fetish and a few others.

There's always our favourite fishscale vomit suppliers on ebay.......

Antonio Tsai (http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Antoniotsais-Guitar-Mandolin-Arts)

and Bruce Wei (http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Bruceweiart-Musical-Instrument-Shop)

I've used both of these guys and they are great.

[mishmannah]

Excellent thread. I'll get me Blue Tack out and make it a sticky. :)


Here's another excellent one...
LMI... (http://www.lmii.com/)

[JustStartin]

Lowes and Home Depot.
-misc tools, bits, etc

Ebay
-do a search under luthier
-also search for clamps and router bits. Clamps and pattern bits can be had for a fraction of the cost you'd pay elsewhere.

Local woodworking shops
-if you have one in your area.
-specialty stains, dyes, veneer, lumber, etc.

Local saw mills.
-if you have any, I'm fortunate to live in the NC furniture belt, so I have access to many.

Auto part stores. Napa, Advance, Autozone.
-especially Napa. Lacquer, finesse it polish.


These arent luthier supply stores, but they're alot cheaper. Alot of the stuff you need other than guitar hardware can be found in your backyard. :)

[martinedwards]

Ok, not suppliers but this wee list is worth having alongside so you can refer to if as you order your wood.......

TOXIC WOODS:

Types of reactions:


1) Respiratory: E.g. asthma, rhinitis, mucosal inflamation

2) Skin and Eye: Contact dermatis (excema), conjunctivitis (itchy,

watery, red eye), pruritis (itch) and other rashes

Here's a partial list (somewhat selected for boat building pertinence) on various dusts that cause occupational lung diseases:

Wood Type of Reaction

Arbor vitae (thuja standishii) 1
Ayan (Distemonanthus benthamianus) 2
Blackwood, African (Dalbergia melanoxylon) 2
Boxwood, Knysna (Gonioma kamassi) 1,2
Cashew (anacardium occidentale) 2
Cedar, Western Red (Thuja plicata) 1,2
Cocobolo (Dalbegia retusa) 2
Cocus (Brya ebenus) 2
Dahoma (Piptadeniastrum africanum) 1
Ebony (Diospyros) 1,2
Greenheart (Ocotea rodiaei) 1,2
Guarea (Guarea thompsonii) 1
Ipe [Iapacho] (Tabebuia ipe) 1,2
Iroka (Chlorophora excelsa) 1,2
Katon (Sandoricum indicum) 1
Mahoghany, african (Khaya ivorensis) 1,2
Mahoghany, american (Swietenia macrophylla) 2
Makore (Tieghemella heckelii) 1,2
Mansonia (Mansonia altissima) 1,2
Obeche (Triplochiton scleroxylon) 1,2
Opepe (Nauclea trillesii) 1,2
Peroba rosa (Aspidosperma peroba) 1,2
Peroba, white (Paratecoma peroba) 1,2
Ramin (Gonystyus bancanus) 2
Rosewood, Brazilian (Dalbergia nigra) 2
Rosewood, East Indian (Dalbergia latifolia) 2
Satinwood, Ceylon (Chloroxylon swietenia) 2
Satinwood, West Indian (Fagara flava) 2
Sequoia Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) 1
Sneezewood (Ptaeroxylon obliquum) 1
Stavewood (Dysoxylum muelleri) 1
Sucupira (Bowdichia nitida) 2
Teak (Tectona grandis) 2
Wenge (Millettia laurentii) 1,2

I can vouch for the Iroko. I'm working with it at the minue and I have hay fever like symptoms. dry scratchy eyes and a dry cough

A guy on the guitar building course I'm on WAS working with Cocobolo. He took a really bad dermatitis reaction and had to give the body to someone else to continue. Now that it has two coats of lacquer he has it back....... There were a load of jokes about playing guitar wearing rubber gloves.......

this is a PARTIAL list, some people have problems with walnut too

Most guitars use at least SOME of the woods on this list. I've never had a problem with Mahogany, rosewood, cedar, or, to be honest any other wood I've worked with except this Iroko, and to be honest, I'm not ruling out hay fever (it being that time of year) and not a problem with the wood after all!!!!!!

[Ogier]

Mojo Tone - http://www.mojomusicalsupply.com/cgi-bin/mojotone/

[Ogier]

Harbor Freight (http://www.harborfreight.com) -- Cheap tools that actually work most of the time. :)

[SigFig]

Put a GREAT big circle around USAcustomguitars, those guys are great.

Bill Callaham's hardware's excellent, IMO.

[mjshailes]

a great uk based site is www.axesrus.co.uk

[disposed hero]

Pickups from DLR Guitars

[Ogier]

http://www.torresengineering.com

[martinedwards]

and of course all the tools from B&Q!!

I got a set of needle files today and a 2.5l tin of waterbased varnish.......

[mishmannah]

har, har....

/\ That's the stuff on my skirting boards. Very nice stuff, if I remember, quite watery in consistency and doesn't gas you out...


I ordered some shimmery mahogany blanks from Craft supplies (http://www.craft-supplies.co.uk/) yesterday at 11am, and I got the parcel first thing this morning.

They don't faff about either. I ordered my stuff within five minutes.

They also sell some sexy neck lams and bodies for electric guitars too.

Phone up for the glossy catalogue: Luthier's stuff isn't shown on the website

All the tonewood is from sustainable forests, too, which is cool in my book. :)

[martinedwards]

madinter (http://madinter.com)

they're in Spain

Mahogany back & side sets are so cheap as to be unbelievable!!!

[mishmannah]

/\ It's perverse, that's what it is...

making an order as we speak....this luthiery lark is making me a very poor gal...help me!!

[Gavztheouch]

This is my uk based luthier company if anyone is in and around the glasgow area you would be welcome to come check out the woods i have, which at the moment are pretty scarce. I do have some nice rosewood its good stuff but it didnt come cheap.

Cheers
Gavin

http://www.armstrongguitars.co.uk

[Grim]

No, I haven't died...

A couple of other web sites...

http://www.guitarbuildingtemplates.com/

Ronny Trigo has some nice templates to follow with your router there.

http://www.guitarplansunlimited.com/

Jamie Unden's full-size blueprints.

http://www.galleryhardwoods.com/

Nice bookmatched sets.

[CypressGroove]

For those of us in the UK I started wondering about reclaimed wood.

Now although these links aren't specifically about tonewood - if you go to this website (http://www.globaltrees.org/proj.asp?id=4) you can locate a local wood recycling / reclamation agent.

I'm actually going to pop down tomorrow lunchtime and see these guys (http://www.woodrecycling.org.uk/) who tell me they've got some mahogony planks going for about £1 a board foot (!!). These planks are about 40 years old, so, you know, should be seasoned fairly well.. I sense some potential lam neck stuff here. They apparently have loads of hardwood offcuts from joiners firms which they sell at anything from 50p to £2 depening largely on how difficult it is sand apparently.

Definately worth using that first link to find you local version of my second link I'd say...

[mishmannah]

I'm actually going to pop down tomorrow lunchtime and see these guys (http://www.woodrecycling.org.uk/) who tell me they've got some mahogony planks going for about £1 a board foot (!!). These planks are about 40 years old, so, you know, should be seasoned fairly well.. I sense some potential lam neck stuff here. They apparently have loads of hardwood offcuts from joiners firms which they sell at anything from 50p to £2 depening largely on how difficult it is sand apparently.

Definately worth using that first link to find you local version of my second link I'd say...

WOOOT!!!!!

[CypressGroove]

WOOOT!!!!!

Lol, don't get too excited - I'm thinking of leaving my wallet at work. primarily I want to see the quality of what they get in there and the range of woods they offer in full. I may be convinced to take photos, of course....

[millrat]

This website has some decent ideas and instructions and stuff.
http://www.kennethmichaelguitars.com/

[millrat]

I just checked out this site. I don't know the going prices of tone woods or building supplies, but this site seemed to have just about everything.

http://www.allenguitar.com/supply.htm

[CypressGroove]

I just checked out this site. I don't know the going prices of tone woods or building supplies, but this site seemed to have just about everything.

http://www.allenguitar.com/supply.htm

WOW! $45 for master grade Sitka Tops and $30 for Adirondack? That's a lot cheaper than I've seen them elsewhere...

[martinedwards]

I'm scared to look as shipping costs.......

[martinedwards]

I just ordered a bunch of stuff from Bezdez on Evilbay.

based in Canada, I've used them a few times.......

[monsoon1]

Excellent thread!

Good call, Ogier.

[monsoon1]

I just checked out this site. I don't know the going prices of tone woods or building supplies, but this site seemed to have just about everything.

http://www.allenguitar.com/supply.htm
He's got some really great prices on cnc slotting, radiusing, etc.

[monsoon1]

I would LOVE to put a pair of neodymium pickups on my guitar from these folks.
http://www.q-tuner.com/gs.shtml

Allied Luthier
http://www.alliedlutherie.com/

Guitar Parts Central
http://www.guitarpartscentral.com

Guitar Parts Resource
http://www.guitarpartsresource.com/guitar_index.htm






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[LCH]

http://www.luthiersupply.com/