Working Dog Guitars is named after our Border Collie 'Baxter' but the name also stands for anyone who works hard for their music - The busking muso, the guitarist in a garage band or the seasoned pro.

We use native tone woods such as

• Tasmanian Blackwood,
• Queensland Maple,
• Queensland Bunyia Pine,
• Tasmanian high altitude King William Pine,
• Victorian Otway wind breaker pine,
• Sassafras, and
• Red Gum to name a few.  

Bunya Pine and Tassie Blackwood are gaining a great reputation in Australia and North America as superior tone woods.

Blackwood has qualities somewhere between Mahogany and Rosewood.

Depending on customer requirements, we also use

• North American Spruce,
• Rosewood,
• Mahogany, and
• African Wenge as a replacement for Ebony.

We use traditional French polishing techniques, Nitrocellulose and Danish Oils that produces a rich deep patina without dampening the soundboard as some modern lacquers do. 

We don't make a lot of guitars but the few we do make are quality instruments rich in tone and balance.