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Afrormosia is also known as Kokrodua and Assamela. My local exotic wood dealer has some huge quartersawn boards. The spec sheets all say it resembles teak, but it sure looks and feels like a mahogany to me.

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Scott Thompson
Port Townsend,WA

"In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
But this is reality so give me some room"
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No one has any experience with this stuff? I'm interested in it for necks. I guess I'll have to just try it. I'll let you know in a couple of years how it holds out.

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Scott Thompson
Port Townsend,WA

"In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
But this is reality so give me some room"
-Billy Bragg

Scott here is some text from a google search,

"Very hard, heavy, oily with interlocked, undulating and twisted grain, medium to fine texture and strinking banded or whorled."

Not sure I'd go for oily and twisted grain.

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Don Atwood
Arlington, VA

With names like that, this wood must be from another planet. No wonder no one's ever used it Scott. I'll be your guinea pig, send it to me and we'll try it for you.....

I do like the nice milk chocolate color and the fact it looks like mahogany grainwise. Lemme have a go at my wood book....

Commonly called Devils Tree, see there, that's yer problem, this belongs to satan himself, better let it be...... It sez here like Teak, but not oily. West Africa, like Bubinga.

Okay, a first class furniture wood, not well known in the United States. But admired by all who know it. I want to try some of this Lucifer Tree, how much you got? I got a new carbide blade in and the suffolk folks say it'll saw like the devil. That's a match, hey hey.

Don, no twist at all. It really does have the look and feel of mahogany. After a little more googling, I found that Warmoth offers it as a neck wood, so I think I'll give it a shot.

Bruce, I don't have any yet. It's still all down at the wood dealer. Devils Tree is an appropriate name because I'll have hell to pay if my wife finds out I'm buying more wood.

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Scott Thompson
Port Townsend,WA

"In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
But this is reality so give me some room"
-Billy Bragg

Afromosa? I think this friend of mine did....

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Scott, Afromosia has a density of around 710kg/m3 against Honduran mahogany of about 600kg/m3 so it wlould make a marginally heavier neck. It is Pericopsis elata, and is currently CITIES II listed meaning that it is not banned but is subject to controls and needs a permit to trade in it.

Colin

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