Our various Stick models are available in rigid, medium lightweight, laminated tropical hardwoods, including the deep yellow tarara (also known as canary wood) with red and purple grain features, and the brilliant red-orange padauk (pronounced "pah-DOOK").

Our dark Indonesian rosewood laminates are a bit heavier, and our mahogany laminates are the lightest in weight. Choice of hardwoods has no discernable effect on tone, as the strings are at a lower tension for light tapping "action", thus there is very little interaction of the vibrating strings with the neck/fretboard structure.

Our newest offerings are African wenge (pronounced WENG-gay), a dense dark-brown wood with a fine brown and black grain, and Brazilian satine (pronounced sah-TEEN), a dense hardwood ranging from deep red to a rich honey color and with uniform, straight and fine grain.

All our hardwoods are grown under sustained harvest plans as renewable resources.

Rosewood click image for rosewood slideshow	Tarara click image for tarara slideshow	Paduak click image for paduak slideshow
Satine click image for satine slideshow	Wenge click image for wenge slideshow	Mahogany click image for mahogany slideshow