Eco-Friendly Guitars Rock!

It's always good when someone realizes that, in every part of the world, we can find solutions for being eco-friendly. As a musician I was always curious about if there's any chance to be an eco-friendly rockstar. Yeah this is possible now, because in these days there are a wide (but still not wide enough) range of eco-guitars on the market.
Let's talk about some horrible details: There are currently 30 billion guitars on the market and it takes between 120 and 150 Spruce logs to supply the entire guitar manufacturing in the US for one year. A saw mill can turn 120 logs into 2 x 4’s in a single shift. Three million guitars are sold in the US in one year! This is quite lot but some guitar manufacturer company started to build green guitars. Let's make a little list about them.

The Gibson Les Paul SmartWood is the first on my list.

"The Gibson Les Paul Smartwood Studio is a variant of the Studio model. It is made from wood certified by the Rainforest Alliance. While the back and the neck are made from mahogany, the carved top each of the six models in the SmartWood line featured tops made from a different but equally stunning wood: Curupay has a deep chocolate-walnut richness; Peroba recalls the orangey hue of the old pine ceiling beam; Banara has a golden, banana-like glow; Ambay Guasu boasts the even lightness of maple; Taperyva Guasu is reminiscent of a sun-bleached rosewood, and Chancharana is a deep, warm-brown russet.and the fretboards are all made from "Curupay harvested from forests certified in accordance with the rules of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). The mahogany used in the construction of this model is from similarly certified forests." - says Gibson's Wikipedia

The next one on my list is the Martin Sustainable Wood Acoustic guitars.

These Sustainable Wood Series acoustic guitars ($1700), constructed from a mix of FSC-certified wood plus some old-growth mahogany and rosewood.
 There are also a couple of brands like: Cole Clark Guitars, Ellis Guitars, RSK guitars and First Act Bambusa etc.


I think it's a pretty good idea to support a youngster who want to be a rockstar, with an eco-friendly guitar.

Keep on greening!