Primavara

[dbhokie]

Anyone had any experience with Primavera Wood as a body?

 

[Musiclogic]

primavera is called white mahogany and is very similar in property to mahogany. It's a medium weight wood that works easilly, and finishes great especially if you find some of the nice stripey blonde stuff or the curly figured stuff. I love it, just don't have much access to it through my wood brokers.

 

[dbhokie]

It is just so beautiful, I want to try my hand at making a bass and I am excellent with woodworking and electronics, but I was thinking about trying to procure a blank of it. It is a bit denser from what I understand? Now mostly popular bass bodies are what Bassword, Swamp Ash, Ash, Walnut (plating?), is the denser wood going to have a large effect on resonance. I would think it would perhaps resonate slightly harder thus making the sound slightly less mellow.

 

[Musiclogic]

it's a great body wood, but sound is subjective, and I don't dabble in that assessment...LOL

 

[HaMMerHeD]

LMI sells it in body blank form and has this to say about it:

Primavera
This wood has a light, even color (from blonde to yellow-tan) with subtle Mahogany like grain patterns, making it a fine alternative to Korina / Limba (which we have never been able to carry due to the scarcity of suitable logs). Weighing less than Mahogany, it has been used on many high-end basses and is widely used on humbucker-equipped "shredder" rock guitars as it has a very even response and strong midrange tonality.

As for me, I don't buy the tonewood stuff, but it does look nice and seems like it would be nice to work with.

It is about $100 for a 2-piece blank there.

 

[FBB Custom]

I wouldn't sweat the tone stuff too much either. If you don't get the primavera you will always wonder what it might have sounded like.

 

[dbhokie]

As experienced luthiers then would most of you say that the effect the wood has on the string resonance is so small it doesn't really matter that much?

 

[Anomalous Bass]

That (from what ive seen) is the general concensus.

 

[FBB Custom]

It might matter, but I think in practice there are very few (if any) people who won't be able to get a sound due to the body wood they chose. There's lots of other ways to change the tone after-the-fact: strings, pickups, EQ, right hand technique...