GERMAN SPRUCE

German Spruce - Alpine Spruce, European Spruce, Common Spruce, (lat. Picea Abies, Picea Excelsa) is probably the wood mostly rich in tradition concerning lutherie. The logs I use are obtained from selected areas in the Austrian Alps, Italian Dolomites, Bavarian Alps and the Bavarian Forest where they have grown in north-eastern slopes (1200m - 1600m above sea level). There, in the southern area of its range, the German Spruce is a mountain (alpine) tree, a fact revealing itself positively in its structure and quality (e.g. no spiral growth, density)... The optical quality factors of this spruce species is characterized by a whitely creamy, bright gold-tone in color and has - resulting from geographic-climatic realities - a very homogeneous and annual ring growth (tight grain), and very low ratio of latewood. This, in fact, is positively affecting the wood's tonal qualities or sound-forming factors. German Spruce is a tonewood featuring exceptional stiffness together with low density..

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Primary location: Ruhstorf Germany