Is this alder?

[cdef]

A 2009 Tokai Hard Puncher has joined the household. It's excellent - great neck, quite light as "P" basses go, and I'm gigging it next week. The body is a two-tone-burst 5-piece, and (as far as I can determine) should be alder. But alder is generally a kind of bland-looking, mild-grained wood, and the dominant darker brown striations here seem atypical. Does anyone have anything comparable?

 

[bholder]

No clue but it does look nice.

 

[frankie5string]

That doesn't look like Alder to me, but it looks pretty nice!
I have a Yamaha BB with burst on Alder body and it's not like that at all.
That actually looks like Sen, to me, which is also sometimes referred to as "Japanese Ash."

 

[cdef]

...That actually looks like Sen, to me, which is also sometimes referred to as "Japanese Ash".

I do have another P with a sen body, and it's much different in grain. Sen typically has curly convolutions, sort of like you'll see in a split cabbage.

I expect this Hard Puncher was not made in Japan, but in Indonesia or China.

 

[P. Aaron]

Whatever that body wood Fender made the Indo-Squier Jaco basses out of. It's that stuff.
Agathis?

 

[micguy]

I'm not sure what exactly that species of wood is, but if I had to guess, it's got some stain on there in the darker areas. That appears to be a multi-piece body - changes in darkness seem to occur in lines parallel to the strings. There also seems to be some blotchiness, which would indicate either alder, or a wood that reacts somewhat the same with respect to taking stain.