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Anyone know of a good source for sitka bracewood in the lower 48 states?,also that is reasonabley priced thanks.

I get mine from The WOODWELL in Washington state.

What i get from RC Tonewoods is very nice. They are a sponsor.

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Brian

You never know what you are capable of until you actually try.

https://www.howardguitarsdelaware.com/

+1 to RC Tonewood.

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George :-)

Colonial Tonewoods. Virginia.

grumpy they are on back order till the end of the month. Asked if it/s 1/4 sawn. ?? Is it ? or do you just cut it up to get the 1/4 sawn pieces ?/ thanks

Ernie, Good question for Grumpy. I have the same one. Seems they have a shop just a few miles from me. I too was wondering what/how he ordered it.

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Joe Beaver
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I just bought a 35 pound box of split Sitka bracewood from Alaska Specialty Woods (http://www.alaskawoods.com/products.php ... =Bracewood). It is what it says it is. The grain is straight and the split makes it easy to cut out braces. I don't expect to have any problems getting good braces for quite a while now. The price per board foot was about the same as from Aircraft Spruce and Alaska Specialty actually had the wood. I had been waiting for several months for Aircraft Spruce to get wood back in stock. The Aircraft Spruce wood is not sawn along split lines, so you have to retrieve your braces from within the boards. I like the split stuff. It's not in the lower 48, so you have to allow time for the post office to get it to you..

I don't use sitka, but know of a lot of folks who get(or used to get) their sitka bracewood from Aircraft Spruce, so I added it to the discussion...

Agreed, bob , last time I got wood from brent , it came via float plane , boat, train, truck, /whatever took a while..Where you guys getting adi spruce bracewood from. I asked john , and someone mentioned a luthier in indiana that gets his adi from maine/ canada?? Thanks grumpy

Back from homeless depot 2 X3 engl spruce 1/4 sawn 2.23 @ gud for ukes and CL /FL or ?? Will keep looking for sitka

I used the Sitka from Aircraft Spruce but by the time you split the boards up the yield can be pretty low. It is nice wood but I prefer working off of split billets. I don't use Sitka anymore, I use red spruce - nothing wrong with Sitka as far as I know, red spruce grows around here.

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

Not in the US but this is usually shipped to your door pronto. http://fine-woods.com/new.html Looks like he has some nice sticks.