Amer'can

[line6man]

Here is a picture I found in another forum of a neck with a Bodark (also called Osage-orange) fret board

Has anyone ever tried or heard of someone trying to use Bodark as the actual neck wood? I seems to me it would be a lot like Pau Ferro (dense closed grain), but with a coarser texture closer to Wenge, and that golden amber / orange color it gets with a little UV is just gorgeous!  :glasses10:

Osage Orange is sort of like Canary, aethetics-wise.
I personally don't like the wood, and wouldn't want a neck made of it.
The piece I worked with was either extremely waxy or very oily.

 

[DangerousR6]

It is very oily/waxy, but it is some pretty wood...And like I said, when it's been in the ground for about 25 yrs, it's like stone...

 

[line6man]

Here is a neck with Osage Orange laminates.