Sustainable Woods?

RobertW , do you know where they get their Mahogany?

El Gull, Elton I think your heart is in the right place, but your new, not yet bought guitar will have a very very miniscule impact on the world's tone wood reserves.
If we all stopped using the said tone woods, would that help, don't think so, there would be no point in replanting new tone wood trees, as they would become redundant.
If you start to think to seriously on this type of subject, you would not put petrol in your car, or switch on anything electrical, or eat meat, the list is endless.
Do guitars have to be made of rare tone woods, if we all changed to composite manufactured guitars, would this solve the problem, maybe, but would create another problem as, they are not very carbon friendly.

From what I've read, the companies that seem most concerned and proactive about using sustainable woods and committing to that philosophy are Godin, Taylor and Cole Clark. You don't have to look far to confirm this. You can go to their websites or do article searches and as mentioned, Bob Taylor has videos out about it too.

Other than these 3, I have not come across any articles or anything else where other companies are talking about caring about or using sustainable woods or doing anything to make existing woods more sustainable.

Unfortunately, Cole Clark does not make any cheap laminate guitars, Taylors are a bit pricey once you get to the 300 series and up and even Godin is getting expensive when you hit the Maritime series or equivalent at S&P. On the flip side, Cole Clark does not make any cheap laminate guitars and their highest end ones don't go over 3K and change so you're always getting a beautiful all solid wood guitar from them. Taylor makes fantastic guitars all through their bottom end lines and so does Godin. 

So, it really depends on what you want. Personally, I don't worry about sustainable woods. Similar to what Derick, said, even if all guitar companies stopped making guitars altogether tomorrow, that would not solve the problems we have with over harvesting. Trees are over harvested or even wastefully cleared for many reasons, guitars are just one small, maybe even negligible factor in there. I'm more concerned with replanting. If more companies did that, things would be a lot better, trees wise that is.

I'm not sure about Godin, but Cole Clark and Taylor are very active on the replanting and forest husbandry thing.

CTGull , I think that African Blackwood is pretty rare. Its Australian counterpart is much more common. But what a beautiful guitar.

TonyKgull , I know that Cole Clark is the leader in the field when it comes sustainable tonewoods. And I really like the way they sound. (Especially the maple backed FL3). Only problem is no 1.75 nut width. Maybe I'll just need to get used to the 1.73 

The width of the nut is almost meaningless. The important thing is the spacing between the 2 E string centers. I believe Taylors, and Seagulls, are 1.50". The Seagull just has a little extra room on the edge of the fretboard.

I've changed the nuts on a few on my vintage Yamaha's. The standard string spacing is a cramped 1.36"!! I usually open it up to 1.44". That's a huge difference!

You could always go with the Angel.  That will be brighter and more comfortable.  Perfect for a stage and couch guitar.  For stage in particular, you actually don't have to worry what size or model you get.  The pickup system is so beyond anything else out there that you can make it sound fantastic under any circumstance.

And ya, that headstock.  Man!  Nobody does that so beautifully as Cole Clark.  I would actually love, love, love to have one of the Angels.  Man, when I get some money again, I'm gonna be in trouble.