Hand Tuned to maximize the power and energy of cocobolo  Bedell Guitars introduces the Revolution Series, featuring hand-tuned guitars crafted in Bend, Oregon, USA, from exotic tonewoods. A two-year quest led to the new series, which delivers accentuated response in the bass tones, clear, balanced...

By Elizabeth Jenkins, Alaska’s Energy DeskDecember 13, 2016 A little piece of Alaska has helped create some of the music industry’s biggest hits. Sitka spruce is a prized “tonewood” used to make guitars and violins. But one guitar company is pushing back and asking...

Note from Tom Bedell | Dec. 13, 2016 Last week I traveled with my wood buyer, Angela Christensen, to Washington, DC to learn how the new regulations will be implemented regarding the Appendix II listing of all dalbergia species (rosewood and cocobolo) and bubinga....

182 nations have ratified the international treaty called CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species), a convention committed to protecting threatened and endangered plants and animals around the world. It allows for various levels of regulation from a complete ban, for example, on...

From the 2016 USAID Report: Back in 2014, U.S. guitar maker and entrepreneur Tom Bedell had a problem. He needed to ensure that his raw material was from legal and sustainable sources to comply with his company’s “from seed to song” philosophy and brand....