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1. Cocobolo
2. Cocobolo
3. Honduran Rosewood
4. Cocobolo
5. Sipo/Utile

Cocobolo
Cocobolo
Ganadillo
Cocobolo
Philipine mahogany from your door frame.

1. Cocobolo
2. Cocobolo
3. Honduran Rosewood
4. Cocobolo
5. Genuine Mahogany

long

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Ok the newbie's going to have a go..

1. Cocobolo
2. Cocobolo
3. Honduran Rosewood
4. Cocobolo
5. Swietenia Macrophylla

That top one looks like Amazon...


1. Amazon rosewood
2. Cocobolo
3. Honduran Rosewood
4. Cocobolo
5. Sapele

Matt

Cocobolo
cocobolo
honduran rosewood
cocobolo
yellow siris

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Anderson Guitars
Clearwater,Fl. 33755

1. Cocobolo
2. Cocobolo
3. Honduran Rosewood
4. Cocobolo
Caribbean/cuban/west indies mahogany (SWIETENIA MAHOGANI)

1. Cocobolo
2. Cocobolo
3. Honduran Rosewood
4. Cocobolo
Hawaiian mahogany (Koa)
(Only three other mahoganies left...)

1. Cocobolo
2. Cocobolo
3. Honduran Rosewood
4. Cocobolo
Brazilian mahogany (PLATHYMENIA RETICULATA.)
(two more...)

LOL Won't let me SPAM!

1. Cocobolo
2. Cocobolo
3. Honduran Rosewood
4. Cocobolo
Santos/balsamo mahogany (MYROXYLON BALSAMUM)
(just one more..)

And the last mahogany i can find (and that does look like some type of mahogany) is the far fetched....

1. Cocobolo
2. Cocobolo
3. Honduran Rosewood
4. Cocobolo
American mahogany (GYMNOCLADUS DIOICUS)

Found one more..

1. Cocobolo
2. Cocobolo
3. Honduran Rosewood
4. Cocobolo
5. Imaginary mahogany (NonExistus mahogani)

cocobolo
cocobolo
honduran rosewood
cocobolo
African Mahogany

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Thanks,
Blain

http://www.ullrichguitar.com

"89.67% of all statistics are made up on the spot."

WINNER

RobLak

The correct answers are:
1 Cocobolo
2 Cocobolo
3 Honduran rosewood
4 Cocobolo
5 Cuban mahogany

So many people were so close on #5 - there was 6 people who got the first 4 right and said some variant of mahogany. There was sapele, khaya, honduran mahogany, sipo, philippine mahogany and genuine mahogany. Genuine mahogany is technically right but I needed the correct one of the 3 genuine mahogany species of the genus Swietenia - Honduran, Cuban and Pacific coast. Winner to get a PM shortly.

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John Lewis
Wannabe builder owned by 2 crazy dachshunds

COOL!! Well done John, that was good fun and congrats Roblak!

Shane

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Canada

Thanks Shane and everyone else too. I hope you guys had fun.

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John Lewis
Wannabe builder owned by 2 crazy dachshunds

I had fun, but it seems unfair that I should get 4 out of 5 and "oh-so-close" on the 5th, and not get a share of Hesh's wood stash. I'll take that Koa guitar instead!

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[QUOTE=John Lewis]
Dennis-
what is Santa Maria?[/QUOTE]

John, Thanks, that was fun.

Santa Maria (Calophyllum brasiliense) is a Central American wood that looks like Mahogany. (Maybe an alternative wood for necks?)

For the last photo, I actually thought about Cuban last night, and even looked up a picture of Cuban, but that sample seemed too open pored.

Dennis

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia

And I thought Larry, Curly, Moe, Shemp and a Stooge to be named later were the "names" you want.

Nyuck, Nyuck, Nyuck.

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Hank Mauel

Cool!

I am embarrassed to say that without the help of Don's guesses i never would have come close. I knew the last was SOME type of mahogany, and i knew #2 was cocobolo but that was about it. I think Don should get a good chunk of Hesh's stash, at least four out of every five pieces....

Thanks John for the interesting game. I certainly hadn't realized that so many unrelated species could make up a wood "family". Learned a few things (like this site will stop you from entering too many guesses, too fast and assume that your spamming the site.)

Rob

I don't want any of his stash...got enough wood. I want that guitar!

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Only badly."

John,

Fun contest and well done Rob

Where did you get the Cuban mahogany from? It looks nothing like the stuff I have seen and used many times for guitars both in terms of colour and grain pattern/texture.

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Dave White
De Faoite Stringed Instruments
". . . the one thing a machine just can't do is give you character and personalities and sometimes that comes with flaws, but it always comes with humanity" Monty Don talking about hand weaving, "Mastercrafts", Weaving, BBC March 2010

Like Dave said that #5 doesn't look like any of the Cuban mahogany I've handled over the years. The open grain, texture and colour just look all wrong to me. It looks too open to be S. microphylla as well. Curious, where did you get it? I've often seen wood marked Cuban mahogany that patently wasn't.


Cuban



Colin

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[QUOTE=Colin S] I've often seen wood marked Cuban mahogany that patently wasn't.[/QUOTE]

Wood sellers have begun to take great license with selling wood as "Cuban" mahogany when it's not. Sometimes they just don't know better, but sometimes they'd rather not know for the sake of value.

To be "Cuban" mahogany it must physically be cut and exported from CUBA. Cuba banned mahogany exports in 1946 to let the species regenerate a bit. Some Cuban mahogany was let on the market in 2002 which I believe Madera got most of. Some small shipments since 2002, but not much.

Sweitenia mahogani is (of course) the species name for it, but it is more properly known as Caribbean mahogany. It grows thruout the Caribbean and Southern Florida.

This species has been on the CITES list since 1992 and when you see photos of mahogany claimed to be "Cuban" fairly fresh cut that hasn't had time to surface oxidize and the end sealer is still noticeably prevalent you just have to wonder....be careful buying on eBay.