Who knew Mahogany could have such awesome figuring?

[DocNrock]

This may be old news to you all who have been around for a while, but I had no idea there could be such awesome figuring in mahogany.  Check out this Ultimate Choice mahogany lam top:

 

[DocNrock]

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[Surf n Music]

Beautiful piece! Every now and then a mahogany piece catches my eye with some subtle figuring. You never really expect it. But that one is awesome!

 

[Cagey]

That is a sharp piece. Don't see figure like that very often in Mahogany.

 

[drewfx]

This guy's in the showcase right now to give you an idea on a body:

 

[DocNrock]

That is a great example, Drewfx. I almost hate it when I see something that beautiful...and it's not in my collection.  :laughing7:

 

[Patrick from Davis]

I have a Mahogany Burl classical acoustic from Yairi Alvarez, and it has some amazing figure to it.  Those are some sharp piece there.
Patrick

 

[swarfrat]

We forget that not so very long ago the 'Hog was considered an "exotic".  I knew a guy who went to Congo before current unrest, helping on a construction project. They were using 2"x12"x16' slabs of Mahogany ... as forms for pouring concrete. Yah. Concrete Forms. Oh well, my Great Uncle built a nice little retirement business selling Cottonwood to Japan for musical instruments.  Yup, here it's a weed tree.

 

[Rick]

I saw the same thing Oaxaca Mexico .  It was either a forest of ebony or rosewood and they used it for firewood!

 

[Cagey]

Hardwood burns slow and hot. Makes great fuel. You use what you have available, right? Here, we wanna burn Oak or Maple. Pine works, but only briefly.

 

[Rick]

True ... Here we burn lots of maple ... Besides maple I've been burning locust and apple cause it's free.  To me maple is just so ubiquitous ... I guess out in Washington they are burning alder

 

[Jet-Jaguar]

Of course, we should probably have ATAN2's guitar in this thread, which was July's guitar of the month.

 

[Kostas]

This may be old news to you all who have been around for a while...

My second Warmoth has a burl top, figured sides and back, it's a stunning body.

It's not often but I've seen a few pieces of figured mahogany over the years, my favorite is a Gibson Flying V with a flamed mahogany body & neck, a beautiful guitar.

 

[DangerousR6]

This may be old news to you all who have been around for a while, but I had no idea there could be such awesome figuring in mahogany.  Check out this Ultimate Choice mahogany lam top:

:headbang:

 

[greywolf]

Stunning~ :headbang1:

 

[DocNrock]

I've been through the configurator a few times with this piece of mahogany.  At least in the computer-generated image, a blue burst looks awesome on it.