Starfire IV - Maple or Mahogany ?

parker_knoll

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looks like maple. Shine a torch in the f-hole. Unfinished mahogany is usually a pale orange colour with a fine grain or lots of short lines which are little dips in the wood, while unfiinished maple is pale cream in colour, not orange at all, and the grain is so tight you can't see it except for colour bands.

Maple also sounds brighter.
 

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I bet it is all maple. I think they only did all mahogany on the Transparent Red stain. But I could be wrong!! :lol:
 

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Thanks for the advise guys. I have determined that it is in fact Maple. I suspected such, 'cos it just didn't look stripey like mahogany, but thought that lower grade mahogany might not exhibit any stripe.
 
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