No kidding, that's actually one of the wood piles here at Arconti Custom Guitars!

The exotic and domestic tonewoods chosen for each Arconti instrument come from a variety of sources across the country to meet both the performance and aesthetic requirements of the customer. At any given time a variety of types, colors and grains of wood are available.

However, we always keep an eye out for particularly nice and unusual pieces to have on hand. The photos below display actual stock on hand and ready for your order.

ABOVE: An assortment of body, neck, top and fretboard stock. 1 and 5: Cocobolo. 2: Black limba. 3: Wenge. 4: lamination of Argentinian lignum vitae, wenge, and maple. 6: Yellowheard.

TOP SETS (from upper right):

1) An extremely highly figured set of maple burl.  2) Very colorful spalted maple complete with tiger striping.

3) Nature at its finest: See the dragon's head in this great, orangey spalted maple?

4) A very highly colored spalted maple burl set.  5) Naturally green Argentinian lignum vitae.

5) A spectacularly bubble-gum quilted maple set.

Nos. 1 through 4 above have been wetted to show color and grain. Sets 5 and 6 are dry.

FOUR MORE DISTINCTIVE TOP SETS

7) A combination of bird's-eye and striping on beautiful maple top set.

8) A gorgeous set of unusually highly colorful walnut.

9 and 10) A fantastic set of "brother" spalted maple top sets -- two great chips off the same old block!

11) And now somehing truly exotic, a beautiful set of rare Southeast Asian camphor burl.

All sets wetted to show color and grain.

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STILL MORE UNUSUAL SPALTED MAPLE

12 and 13) Two sets with unusually subtle color and texture patterns.

All sets wetted to show color and grain.

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BEAUTIFUL MEXICAN COOBOLO

14) A set of deeply colored, beautifully grained Mexican cocobolo. This wood is not dampened -- this is the natural coloring!

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