Your Answers: Your Favorite Woods

Last week I asked you about your favorite woods. Here are your replies...

Name: Alan
Location: Chicago
"Padauk - just because"

Name: Art
Location: Lake Suzy, Fl
"There is lots of pretty wood from all over the world to choose from, but my favorite is black walnut. Every instrument I've made with it just seems to sound better than any other."

Name: Mac S
Location: Eastern U.S.
"I like mahogany, but I think hickory looks great and I like the sound of the dulcimer you made with hickory back and sides and sycamore top plus resonator. Walnut sounds good also. Sound is the important part for me, so it comes down to design, workmanship, and the sound of the specific wood being used in the instrument. I ended up with a mahogany guitar after comparing it with several other mahogany, rosewood, other hardwoods, some with spruce tops. The guitar I got just had the particular sound I wanted."

Name: Cal
Location: KY
"For beauty and sweetness of sound, cherry."

Name: Pix W.
Location: Lebanon, PA
"My favorite wood is purpleheart. I first saw it on a harp owned by Harper Tasche and couldn't take my eyes off the lovely sight. Since then, I've seen it in small pieces on a dulcimer and in flooring. Oh yes, I want a purpleheart floor!"

Name: Jerry h
Location: north Hampton, Ohio
"Cherry, pretty and cheap. Does everything well woodwork and sound wise. It isn't really a fruit tree found in an orchard. It is a nice native species growing right here in the U.S."

Name: Donna M.
Location: Glendale Heights, IL
"My favorite wood is mahogany, but I do like purple heart an awful lot! I like the sound of mahogany but I also remember the mahogany furniture my folks had when I was growing up. My Mom was so picky about wood and searched and searched until she found wood she thought was just right. Purple heart is a great decorative wood and dense so if I ever have a dulcimer made I might like a purple heart fret board and bridge."

Name: John Keane
Location: Shreveport, LA
"Zebrawood and quilted maple are the most visually striking to me (with
spalted sycamore right up there as well)."