Reclaimed wood acoustic guitar

I use reclaimed wood in all of the acoustic guitars I make, but Idon’t really think of it as reclaimed wood, I just think that wood has a life cycle and a single piece can have multiple uses in its life time. I mostly use it for internal structural pieces, but I am also currently making a bridge from a piece of Ziricote I rescued from a firewood pile.

The acoustic guitars I am currently building have neck and tail blocks made from Mahogany window sills from a Georgian house and some Cedar that I think was once a shelf. Both sourced from my local reclaimed timber yard.

While on a recent trip to Mexico I was rummaging through the firewood pile and I found some nice pieces of Ziricote, enough for a few fingerboards and bridges. One persons domestic timber is another persons exotic wood.