Good Looks. Good Sound:

For Best Sounding Classical Acoustic Guitars

In Use Worldwide 25-Years!

Create beautiful, handmade acoustic guitars with our uniquely colored, clear vertical curly sinker Redwood. We also provide redwood for electric guitar, ukulele, dulcimer and harp building!

Redwood Salvage Sales provides Luthier grade sinker wood billets sold in 8/4" and 4/4."
Widths vary from 8" to 16" (for solid body guitars). Turnaround is efficient, shipping worldwide.

Lowden Guitars

We are proud to supply Lowden Guitars with luthier grade old growth redwood, salvaged—both "sinker" from the river bottoms and from forest floors.

Our own California redwood is mentioned in the video below at (9:10). Listen to George Lowden's great recommendation of its qualities:

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Our redwood is so beautiful, we don't just sell wood—we sell AWE!

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Old Growth Redwood

The Great Adventure Behind Our Redwood

A river runs through it... History from 1849, and the salvage story of a man's journey from doctor to innkeeper in Mendocino County began with dredging old logs out of Big River. Learn more...

Own a Piece of California State History All of our wood is clear all heart salvaged old growth redwood. This salvaged sunken redwood has ax-shaved ends, meaning it was cut before the late-1800s. Originallyharvested between 1850 and 1910, this redwood falls into three distinct time periods: 1) A V-shape or "beaver-cut" meant that a log was felled with an axe between 1850 and 1876, when the labor- and time-saving raker-tooth saw was invented. 2) Logs cut with a saw and dragged to the river by mules or oxen were first shaved or edged around their circumference to prevent snagging. Learn more...	Fine Craftsmen and WoodworkersWe gladly interface with owners, contractors, architects, builders, designers and/or their agents to provide you our beautifully colored salvaged redwood. We know old growth redwood and what it can do. We hand select every piece of wood we sell, and we absolutely guarantee its quality. Redwood Salvage Sales arranges custom milling to any specifications you define in vertical, flat or mixed grains, and ship directly to your home or workplace. We can ship domestic and internationally. Our orders are shipped to you with no waste at all, every stick usable for its intended purpose. Learn more...
Brewery Gulch Inn Fournded and built by Arky Ciancutti with his eco-salvaged redwood, Gourmet Magazine (August, 2002) said, "this stylish new hotel sets a SoHo standard for design..." Wine Enthusiast (March, 2003) said that, partly due to this wood, the inn is "A masterpiece of style and design." Sky Magazine (Delta Airlines) wrote in June, 2003, that ...."wood connoisseur Ciancutti used the wood as lavish trim, a worthy tribute to those ancient trees." Learn more....	Myrtlewood Available All-burl Myrtlewood is available here at Redwood Salvage Sales. We have Myrtlewood slabs 2-1/4" to 3-1/4", all 10' long, up to 44" wide, all book-matched. Air-dried 6 years indoors. One of a kind pieces. Some beautiful furnishings and items have been created by our local craftsmen.
Customer Reviews Another happy customer installing their new redwood paneling says, "They look beautiful!"—Los Angeles Read what other customers have to say at our Customer Reviews.	In The News Magazine articles about Redwood Salvage Sales by Robb Report Luxury Home; BUILDERnews; Sawmill & Woodlot Magazine; and The San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine. Check it out!
The Salvage Story A man's journey from doctor to innkeeper in Mendocino County began with dredging sunken timber out of Big River...the recovery of a lost treasure of Northern California!	Green Benefits and Durability of Redwood Redwood repels termites and its ability to resist rot enables it to last for generations—superb green architect resources for your green dream home! Learn more...