WOODS USED TO BUILD ELECTRIC GUITARS

A panorama of the most used woods in electric guitar making.

Want to go from theory to practice?

Now that you know which woods are used in lutherie, in my online courses you choose the right woods with me for the sound you are after, and build your own guitar in 15 days.

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Galeazzo Frudua

As a luthier and guitar making and repair teacher, since 1988 he has built making more than 350 boutique guitars and basses priced from 2,900 to 5,600 Euros and repaired and customized thousands of stringed instruments. His instruments and amplifiers are used by flagship artists, such as Chick Corea, Peter Gabriel, Ennio Morricone, Carl Verheyen. He owns two YouTube channels—where he teaches music—that count over 40 million views and about 200,000 subscribers and almost 200.000 subscribers.