Raw Materials and Building Supplies

Tonewoods

Colonial Tonewoods - Huge selection of very high quality tonewoods including hard to find air dried, old growth Brazilian Rosewood. Also sells Koa, Ziricote, African Mahogany, Honduran Rosewood, Ovangkol, Honduran Rosewood, Spruce and more. Back & side sets, neck blanks, bridge blanks, fingerboards and other building supplies.

Luthier's Mercantile Int'l - Tools, woods, instrument plans, parts, and finishing supplies for luthiers.

Tasmanian Tonewoods - Tonewoods for Acoustic & Solid Body Guitars. Weissenborn - Violin - Viola - Mandolin- Ukulele. Appalachian Mountain Dulcimers. Solid body blanks available. Drop top caps available for Les Paul, Telecaster, Stratocaster. Gibson & Carve Tops Available by request.

International Luthiers Supply - Musical instrument repair / building supplies and tools. Tone woods, inlay material, parts, finishing supplies and more for guitars, mandolins, violins, cellos, banjos, dulcimers and uke's.

Musical Forest Inc. - Naturally seasoned tonewoods for building fine handmade musical instruments.

Inlay / Bindings

DePaule Inlay Supply - Lots of inlay material, both precut and blanks. Offering precut patterns in the style of Orpheum, S.S. Stewart, Vega, Fairbanks, Paramount and others.

Duke of Pearl - Inlay supplies and materials

Axiom Inc. - Celluloid bindings and laminates for instrument repair and building.

Custom Inlay - Inlay material, FWI and Mammoth Ivory bridge pins, end pins, binding, purfling, nut and saddle blanks. Offering custom inlay services.

Paint / Finishing Supplies

Guitar ReRanch - Nitrocellulose lacquer in a can with many original colors and dyes available.

Shellac.net - Shellac of all kinds plus information pertaining to it's application and use.

Rockler - Behlen spray lacquer.

Instrument Blueprints / Building Plans

Elderly Instruments - Instrument blueprints.

Guild of American Luthiers - Blueprints for guitars, fiddle, bass, tiple, harp guitar, dulcimer, ukulele and more.

CAD Instrument Plans - Digital CAD files are for novice or experienced CAD operators.

Fret Wire

Jim Dunlop - Offers fret wire in an assortment of sizes.

Jescar - Professional grade high quality guitar fret wire.

Warmoth - Fret wire available nickel, stainless steel and in a gold, nickel-free copper alloy.