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"I had heard about this rosewood many years ago, when I repaired guitars in Norway. I'm glad that Launie has made it available. It is excellent - very stiff with a good tap-tone. It's also very beautiful."
- Sigmund Johannessen, Summit School of Guitar Building & Repair
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Dynamic Hardwoods
7851 Tugwell Road, Sooke, BC
Canada V9Z 0J7
telephone and fax (250) 664-6563
Dyanamic Hardwoods specializes in supplying top-quality, genuine rosewood tonewood, carefully sourced, manufactured with precision, and marketed to the guitar industy. We take great pride in providing the very best in materials in the spirit of helping luthiers, worldwide, create beautiful musical instrument, both in sound and appearance.
Who is Launie Gratto?
Launie Gratto is the owner and operator of Dynamic Hardwoods Company. He has a solid background in manufacturing wood components for guitars and other stringed instruments.As General Manager of Timbre Tonewood, Ltd. from 1995 to 2000, he played a key role in developing and operating a factory producing guitar soundboards from world-renowned British Columbia Spruce and Cedar.
During Launie's tenure as GM, Timbre Tonewood grew from only two workers in 1995 (Launie included) to a company of international status within a few short years. By 1998, the company employed 18 workers and each year shipped more than 100,000 guitar tops, plus thousands of cedar blocks (to be cut into guitar tops overseas) to major guitar factories world-wide.
For more than 30 years, Launie Gratto has also worked part-time and full-time as a carpenter, furniture maker, refinisher, and renovator. He appreciates fine woods, enjoys working with them, and understands what motivates others to use the best of woods in the best of ways.
Launie is also a professional business writer, operating an online proposal writing service at www.EffectiveProposal.com. He has more than 30 years of business experience, has a Master's of Science Degree in Educational Policy and Management, specializing in Higher Education, University of Oregon, and a BA in English, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
"From my experience in supplying to most major guitar manufacturers and numerous smaller ones as far back as 1995, I know that good rosewood has become very rare.
I'm very happy that we can supply Dalbergia Bariensis (for at least a while). I know it will be fully appreciated and enjoyed by hundreds of guitar makers and thousands of musicians for generations to come."
- Launie Gratto