With its rich, colorful grain and ringing tone, Brazilian rosewood can make a guitar buyer smile — and a guitar maker scream. Guitar buffs revere the wood as the foundation of some of the ...

An amendment to CITES Appendix II in January this year is resulting in the biggest forced change in guitar manufacturing ever. So what’s the big deal with rosewood? It’s perhaps the most revered of ...

When considering which fretboard or neck material to go for with your next guitar, or your next mod, there are typically two ...

An international crackdown on illegal logging in tropical forests has ensnared the makers of some guitars and other musical instruments, whose top-end products require small amounts of rosewood ...

Your next luxury guitar may not be made of treasured mahogany from the forests in Guatemala, nor from the long-revered rosewood of India — but from the lumber of a tree off the side of a Los ...

On 2 January 2017, a new CITES law came into force, putting restrictions on how rosewood is traded across international borders, a move that had vast implications for low-cost guitar building - ...

Since new trade rules took effect in 2017, guitar makers have complained about long delays in getting permits to import rosewood and export finished instruments that contain it. Warehouses have ...