It just depends on your mood... feeling bright and splashy?
Then something flamed is in order.... Dark and dangerous? 
Then ebony is your choice.... Got the blaa's? 
Then I would go with plan old EIR.
Hope this has been helpful!
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| Author: | PaddyD [ Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:25 am ] |
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hey dudes, in your opinion what is your favourite binding scheme for mahogany B/S of course any pics would be great, i'm just in a real indecisive mood! paddy |
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| Author: | LanceK [ Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:28 am ] |
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anything zootilicious -- Mahogany is plain, so spice up the guitar with a flamed Maple or Koa.. |
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| Author: | Joe Beaver [ Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:23 pm ] |
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It just depends on your mood... feeling bright and splashy? Then something flamed is in order.... Dark and dangerous? Then ebony is your choice.... Got the blaa's? Then I would go with plan old EIR.
Hope this has been helpful!
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| Author: | Don Williams [ Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:42 pm ] |
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I like ebony or rosewood with mahogany, but tortoise looks great too. Then again, there's always ivoroid or white plastic. Shoot...anything looks good ! |
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| Author: | Andy Zimmerman [ Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:46 pm ] |
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I am a big fan of ebony binding. I have a set of cuban mahog from Brad Goodman that I plan on using ebony. Love your Avatar. in to any cider lately?? |
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| Author: | Joe Beaver [ Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:47 pm ] |
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Actually I lied, Mahogany is a very nice wood. It goes with most binding-purf schemes. Here is a guitar from you know who... I believe it is mahogany. 
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| Author: | Wes McMillian [ Sun Apr 02, 2006 1:19 pm ] |
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Here's mine recently finished, dressed in white oak... 
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| Author: | John Mayes [ Sun Apr 02, 2006 1:26 pm ] |
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My favorite Mahogany binding is Brazilian or snakewood. |
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| Author: | Steve Kinnaird [ Sun Apr 02, 2006 1:31 pm ] |
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Wes, that's nice...I never would have thought of White Oak. But why not? It looks great. But to add another choice, Paddy, I'll say I just bought a chunk of Lacewood to make bindings to go with the mahogany I also just bought. (Terrible sentence, but a great wood-shopping spree.) 
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| Author: | Serge Poirier [ Sun Apr 02, 2006 3:24 pm ] |
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[QUOTE=Joe Beaver] Actually I lied, Mahogany is a very nice wood. It goes with most binding-purf schemes. Here is a guitar from you know who... I believe it is mahogany. [/QUOTE]
Joe, do you know if the purfling was hom made on this one? really beautiful work! |
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| Author: | CarltonM [ Sun Apr 02, 2006 5:15 pm ] |
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Paddy...As has been mentioned, ebony and rosewood look really good with mahogany. So does curly koa. After seeing how well Wes' white oak looks with mahogany, though, I'm thinking maybe some nice curly oak... |
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| Author: | BlueSpirit [ Sun Apr 02, 2006 6:14 pm ] |
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Like John, I like the Brazilian. Just looks elegant. |
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| Author: | PaddyD [ Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:28 pm ] |
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nice so far, has been a quiet week on the cider front, had a lot of orders for dishes and inlay to fill so i have been cnc monkey boy all week, more pics please!!!!! 
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| Author: | Colin S [ Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:48 pm ] |
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Satinwood,Box or Holly, David Dyke carries them all. An alternative that I like is to bind a mahogany guitar in mahogany, just rip some off the sides, really classy, just using the purfling as the contast especially if using anything other than BW. Madagascan Rosewood would be a good alternative to the other rosewoods and look just like BRW. Colin |
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| Author: | Colin S [ Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:42 pm ] |
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Paddy, just had another thought (actually had it in the middle of my Monday departmental meeting) everytime I look at one of my old mahogany Martins I think to myself "that tortoise looks nice, must try it". I know we tend to be very wood oriented here, and quite rightly so, but give tortoise a thought. David Dyke has it as well. Colin |
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| Author: | Daniel M [ Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:54 pm ] |
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Bloodwood looks great with Mahogany. It's a bear to bend tight curves, but it sure looks good. |
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| Author: | Arnt Rian [ Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:57 pm ] |
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[QUOTE=Colin S] Madagascan Rosewood would be a good alternative to the other rosewoods and look just like BRW. Colin[/QUOTE] Here is one I did with that combination. 
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| Author: | TonyKarol [ Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:33 pm ] |
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Ziricote is my std binding choice these days .. looks great on mahogany with either a bwb or blk/orange/blk scheme. |
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| Author: | Dave Anderson [ Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:54 am ] |
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I like curley koa with mahogany,or curley eucalyptus. Flamed maple looks good too. |
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| Author: | Dave Rector [ Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:14 am ] |
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Another alternative is curly bubinga. I made a little Stella-like blues guitar a while back that was Sapele with the bubinga bindings. It looks quite pleasant to me. |
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| Author: | L. Presnall [ Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:29 am ] |
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[QUOTE=Joe Beaver] nice wood. It goes with most Here is a guitar from you know who... [/QUOTE]
 I'M NOT WORTHY! NOT WORTHY!
Ever go to his site? Man, the tools he came up with are almost more impressive than his guitars!
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| Author: | L. Presnall [ Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:30 am ] |
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Paddy, I agree with Colin...Tortois does go well with mahogany!
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| Author: | Philip Perdue [ Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:59 am ] |
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Paddy, Try the tortoise binding and back it with white. It really make the tortoise come alive (so to speak). Philip |
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| Author: | Todd Rose [ Mon Apr 03, 2006 7:52 am ] |
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You said "you know who," but I don't, and I'd like to. Thanks. |
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| Author: | Jimmy Caldwell [ Mon Apr 03, 2006 7:57 am ] |
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Jim Olson |
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