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Bearclaw Sitka Spruce
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BOTANY: Picea Sitchensis
SOURCE: Western North America
COLOURS: Bearclaw Sitka Spruce is pinkish white to light brown and silky
CHARACTER: Bearclaw Sitka Spruce has random figure either a "scratched look", wriggly pattern sometimes in opposite direction to the grain, or shorter "claw" scratches along the grain
SUITABLE: Bearclaw Sitka Spruce is suitable for steel string soundboards, hard flatpicking
TONAL: Bearclaw Sitka Spruce has good balance, clarity and resonation, bright, crisp

Ellis Guitars can offer the tonal timber known as "Bearclaw Sitka Spruce" on all their Series guitars. Mastergrade Bearclaw Sitka Spruce, AAA grade Bearclaw Sitka Spruce and AAAA grade Bearclaw Sitka Spruce is available. Sitka Spruce comes from Western North America and is pinkish white to light brown and silky in colour. The grain can be a random figure either a "scratched look", wriggly pattern sometimes in opposite direction to the grain, or shorter "claw" scratches along the grain. Suits steel string soundboards used for flatpicking and the occasional fingerpicking. Sitka Spruce has good balance, clarity and resonation.

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