ASHLEY SANDERS GUITARS

On average I build three guitars a year, preferring to build at a comfortable pace, this allows me to focus on each guitar individually and I think results in greater job satisfaction, better sounding instruments and happier customers. I build 650mm scaled, lattice braced concert guitars with either master grade cedar or Swiss spruce for the tops, bodies in East Indian rosewood, pommel sapeli, ziricote or Australian blackwood and either Fijian or Brazilian mahogany for the necks. I have a small stock of Brazilian rosewood and I will only use this in guitars sold to a destination that legally accepts CITES listed timbers, the Fijian mahogany is not CITES listed as it is plantation grown, and therefore it is able to be exported legally.Only a small percentage that is cut of the species listed is suitable for luthiery, it is the best of the best, and at the best of times is hard to obtain. I am fortunate to have stocked up earlier, having foreseen a time when what was once available would..