Choosing Your Ukulele Tonewood
One of the first decisions to make when having a custom Lichty ukulele crafted for you is what type of tonewood you want for the back and sides. There are many things that impact the tonal quality of an instrument. The ukulele wood chosen for the back and sides is just one of those factors. Perhaps equally important regarding tonewood is the visual tone it sets. We have on hand at all times a wide selection of premium exotic and domestic ukulele tonewoods. While it is really a thrill to come to the shop and to dig through our stash of wonderful woods to find the set that has your name on it, we feature all available sets on our website so that our customers around the world can go through the same selection process.
Click on an image to learn more about each ukulele wood, to see all sets currently available and to view a gallery of instruments crafted from that wood. You might just come across the perfect set of tonewood for your own custom Lichty ukulele.
Regarding our ukulele tonewoods:
- When finish is applied to tonewoods it dramatically transforms the color and warmth. Images of unfinished wood require a bit of imagination to picture the vibrancy of the finished instrument.
- Can’t find what you are looking for? We can typically round up anything, so just let us know and we’ll contact our suppliers.
- View all of our soundboard options
*Special Note: We frequently get inquiries about wood sales. Please be aware, our woods are carefully selected for our custom instrument projects and we do not sell our tonewoods.
Custom Ukulele Tonewood Gallery
Brazilian Rosewood
Bubinga
Chechen
Cocobolo
Granadillo
Honduran Rosewood
Hormigo
Indian Rosewood
Koa
Lacewood
Mahogany
Maple
Miscellaneous
Myrtlewood
Pau Ferro
Sapele
Wenge
Ziricote
What type of ukulele tonewood and what specific set you’d like for your ukulele is just one of the decisions you will get to make as you design your custom Lichty uke.
Learn more:
- Custom Ukulele Options.
- Learn more about the Custom Ukulele process.
- Learn more about Ordering and Pricing.