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I think it’s perhaps most likely Luan or meranti!!
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If it’s meranti I’m wondering if it would be strong/stable enough for necks? Have enough for about 25!
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Looking on the PC now its certainly possible. The pics look are a bit washed out which gives it the meranti colour, but the grain patterns are more like a proper mahogany
I have built a body and neck out of Dark Red Meranti and it worked well. Not a wood i would reject off hand, but the proper mahoganies are much better
you can see similar grain and medullary flecks on the quartersawn example here
http://www.wood-database.com/honduran-mahogany/
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it was an organ restorer who I talk woodwork with who had a look and said he thought it was luan - as I think he thought it was newly purchased. He’s got a 300 year old organ from Jamaica in his workshop at the moment, solid mahogany - must confess I was imagining it sliced into neck blanks while I was talking to him today!
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End grain
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