Nitro-cellulose and pre-cat cellulose finishes available from Tonetech Ltd. 

We are pleased to offer you a range of cellulose paints in spray cans for
great guitar custom finishes.  We have a range of traditional colours and clear lacquers for finishing or re-finishing your guitar.  We match our colours as close as possible to the original Dupont 'Duco' and 'Lucite' colours

Most amateur makers will find our 400ml aerosol paints easy to apply.  

We can supply you with a whole range of aerosol lacquers, paints, and tints specially formulated for guitar finishing:

If you have your own spraying equipment then you can order the same products in 1, 2.5 and 5 litre tins . 

  Clear Sanding Sealer  

  Nitro-cellulose Clear lacquer  

  Pre-cat Clear Cellulose lacquer, Gloss  

  Pre-cat Clear Cellulose lacquer, Matt  

Pre-Cat Cellulose Colours:-

Olympic White Dakota Red  Daphne Blue   Black

Surf Green      Sonic Blue     Gold (Gold Top)

TV Yellow         Arctic White  Fiesta Red  

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Internet forums are becoming increasingly popular.  We are thinking of setting up a UK forum for people to discuss guitar making.  At the moment we have no idea how popular this will be so we are looking for you, our visitors, to give us some feedback on the idea. 

Why not check out the poll on our homepage , in the left hand column, and register your vote.  With over 3000 of you visiting the site each month, we should get a good feel for the interest in a forum.

Guitar Making Timber needs to be specially selected to produce instruments that look good, sound good, and play well.  When making your own guitar you want to be sure that the materials you buy are the best. 

Here at Tonetech we have all the expertise to choose timbers we know will make great instruments.  Dan MacPherson, our timber buyer and processor has 17 years experience in making and repairing guitars.  Unlike a lot of other timber suppliers, we know what its like to make instruments and how important it is to you to get the correct grades and cuts of timber. You can be confident you'll get the right materials to make your own unique guitar from Tonetech. 

We have a wide range of timbers for Electric and Acoustic Guitar makers, so now visit the timber section of our online store and start your new project.

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Tonetech Luthier Supplies' products are available to you via the internet.  We stock a range of guitar making woods,  Tonewood, 
general Luthier Supplies and accessories so you can build your dream instrument.

Browse our Shop and get your purchases in 2-3 days!

For electric guitar makers we have guitar body blanks , neck blanksand fingerboard blanks .  We also have a range of plastic sheet materials to make scratch-plates and control covers.  For Fret-board marking we have Mother of Pearl and Abalone inlays . and

For your acoustic needs we have Tonewoods; Cedar and Spruce soundboards , back and side sets , neck blanks , fingerboard blanks , bridge blanks and headstock faceplates .  We'll be adding bracing and kerfing soon!  Also for acoustics, see our range of Rosettes .  Marker dots and inlays are also available.

Our adhesives are chosen for their application in instrument making.  Trusty Titebond for most wood gluing operations, and a range of superglue's and epoxies for those occasional repairs or tricky gluing jobs.

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