One of my goals over the years has been to locate the finest tone wood available for my instruments, not just the average or even the best a wood dealer had on hand. I knew that the classical designs of guitars and violins came from the wood from Europe, especially the spruce for tops.

My early research lead me to the belief that while Sitka spruce from the Pacific Northwest and Alaska can be made into a good guitar, especially a steel string, (and I've built plenty), the Orchestral instruments suffered greatly with this wood. The Guitars also seam to suffer a lack of brilliance and clarity and in no place is this more noticeable than with the classical guitar