Bear if your wood is of substantial size, California Redwood makes excellent tone wood for string instruments. it is one of the highly prized woods used for making guitars.
Oregon Wild Wood: Redwood Luthier Sets and Redwood Soundboards
The guys on that link salvage redwood from large old stumps and timbers, I used to go after the large cedar stumps left behind from the days of spring board and cross cut felling for the shake blocks back then selling around $1200.00 a cord.
The market went all to hell after all those house fires in California, shakes fell out of vogue. It was not until years later that I had learned about luthiers and their choices of wood.
When we moved from B.C. I brought a thousand board feet of broad leaf maple, unfortunately I only have a few planks left.
The pictures below show as an example of the wood I have from B.C.
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