What is the best NZ native wood for body

[holelottaluv]

i feel the 28.525 year old swamp kauri produces a better mid range,but i guess it all boils down to personal taste

[Jenesis]

Depends how much epoxy you squirt into it.

[holelottaluv]

as in a filled in chamber?

[sonicfantom]

Is pine real option? I am building something with it at the moment (my bad probably), but it is quite soft compared to other woods. Is pine similar to ash, but softer?

There's great potential for a "what's the difference between..." joke here.

Just my 2 cents, but any wood that is mostly used in construction can't be much of a tone wood, otherwise us guitarists would be snapping it up because pine's so darned cheap.

Interestingly, they use White Ash to make baseball bats. Go figure.

[IkeKrull]

mahogany coffee tables... motherfucker?

[ash]

Swamp kauri clocks!!!1

[Ears]

spruce gooses?

[calling card]

Swamp kauri clocks!!!1

Not a silly idea at all.

[Mike_Hosking]

a pine guitar, yuck, youd only make them to practice making them haha then wen your good, rip out the matai!! ehh or not.

pines easy to work as long as its clears, easy on tools, easy to sand, dents dont matter, just suck em out.

anyone used silver beech for bodys?

[ash]

a pine guitar, yuck, youd only make them to practice making them haha then wen your good, rip out the matai!! ehh or not.

You mean Matai, aka Black Pine?

anyone used silver beech for bodys?

I've got an unfinished silver beech Heilo in the stack that I'll finish one day. Seems useful, although not obviously spectacular. I'm sure I've done one in silver beech before, but I can't think what it might have been. I made a red beech bass once. No idea whether it was any good or not, but it sold in the K Rd Rockshop pretty quickly back in '93. Also used curly red beech tops a few times. Those woods all work fine, but often seem a bit "meh" compared to known winners like real mahogany.

[Jenesis]

a pine guitar, yuck, youd only make them to practice making them haha then wen your good, rip out the matai!! ehh or not.

You mean Matai, aka Black Pine?

[Mike_Hosking]

ahh interesting ash, got plenty of 1 meter off cuts of silver beech at work, boss is always tryn to sell it off for smaller things, was used for door jambs, mite make a bass body out of some.

yes black pine, thort of "red pine", more black pine at work tho haha, crap loads actually. i didnt know "white pine" was good for bodys.

[holelottaluv]

here's a matai guitar i built a few years back, fitted with rio grande P90's

[badmotor]

Hot! You still building guitars?

[holelottaluv]

yep im still making guitars.i have my work shop in freemans bay