During my last visit I bought a lot of this Huanghuali wood. As you can read it's from the rosewood family but even in China it is getting rare so we bought enough to be sure we can produce for at least 2 years and we have an option on even more. The wood is actually often used in antique Chinese furniture and is there collected by rich investors because the wood is getting rare. The information you can find in the small article I found on the internet.
Huanghuali The Chinese term huanghuali literally means "yellow flowering pear" wood. It is a member of the rosewood family and is botanically classified as Dalbergia odorifera. In premodern times the wood was know as huali or hualu. The modifier huang (yellowish-brown) was added in the early twentieth century to describe old huali wood whose surfaces had mellowed to a yellowish tone due to long exposure to light. The sweet fragrance of huali distinguishes it from the similar appearing but pungent-odored hongmu.
The finest huanghuali has a translucent shimmering surface with abstractly figured patterns that delight the eye--those appearing like ghost faces were highly prized. The color can range from reddish-brown to golden-yellow. Historical references point to Hainan Island as the main source of huali. However, variations in the color, figure, and density suggest similar species sourced throughout North Vietnam, Guangxi, Indochina and the other isles of the South China Sea.
More interesting perhaps are the pictures I have of the guitar that we produced from this new wood. We used it both for the body as well as the neck. We are still doing some tests to see if we also can use the wood as fretboard. We are proud that we have this wood in our collection because we have in this meterial new wood with a very own look with many possible ways of use and finishing. Because it's heavy we can use it as topwood but we are also looking at finishing the wood with oil or wax and another thing we will start to work on is a neck through version of a guitar made of this wood because we expect that it will have a fantastic sustain with a neck trough construction

We now also have in our hardware productline some new top products such as Duncan Seymour pickup's and the complete Floyd Rose product line and are still expanding.
Also new is the possibility to have, if you have a guitarshop, your own design and brand names guitars. Please ask for the possibilities we can offer you. Last but not least we soon will come with unfinished bodies and neck's for people who want to build their own guitar and who not like the prices on the internet now............................

