Choice of woods

• All tops are made of quarter sawn Sitka spruce, 18-24 lines per inch
• Sides are made of quarter sawn walnut
• Backs are either koa, myrtle, maple, or mahogany, all quarter sawn
• The headstock/neck block is made of one piece of rock (sugar) maple, lyptus, or mahogany
• Bridge material is variable. I use a number of highly figured scraps of hardwood from local woodworkers, included are birch and maple burls, yellowheart, bubinga, purpleheart, lyptus, rosewood and some unknowns.
• Nuts and saddles are of fossil ivory from Alaska
• Fretboards are made of katalox or ziracote

Interior woods

• Bracing is Sitka spruce
• Kerfing is mahogany
• Linings and flat bracing is walnut or spruce
• Bridge plates are walnut
• Heel block is walnut
• Cutaway brace is maple

I put 3/32 inch pearl dots on the sides of the fretboard at frets 5, 7, 9, 12, and 15.