Wood type based on 1 picture?

[STRMan]

I agree that the grain looks like mahogany, the lighter weight Philippine mahogany.

Most people don't realize Philippine Mahogany isn't a mahogany at all. It's a tropical red cedar. I learned this during my boat building days.

 

[Bruce Johnson]

Most people don't realize Philippine Mahogany isn't a mahogany at all. It's a tropical red cedar. I learned this during my boat building days.

Yep, I realize that. I'm just going by what we used to buy here in So Cal lumberyards that was labeled Philippine Mahogany. I've built maybe a dozen bass bodies from it.

 

[iiipopes]

Another possibility is a variant called Sapele. As discussed, it is not an easy call. Here is a Wood Database article that goes into the detail of the complications of identifying "real" mahogany and all the others:
Mahogany Mixups: the Lowdown | The Wood Database

 

[DaveParker39]

That book is insanely full of information as well as the best sleep aid ever!

I think every serious woodworker has it, but it's the poster child for way more than I wanted to know.

it is unironically a great reference

 

[Plain Old Barry]

it is unironically a great reference

I think the best part is when he describes what it actually takes to truly identify a species.

 

[Beej]

Squier also used cedro (spanish cedar, also called 'indian red cedar') back in the mid-2000s and onward for a few years. It has too much visible grain for alder, agathis or basswood.

 

[Fender_Bender]

I do remember Fender saying that these were alder bodies, but they’re the same people who’s catalog said that the Geddy Lee Jazz Bass had an alder neck for a decade or more. Looks a lot like the rubber wood or pseudo mahogany.

 

[GodsLove66]

What about Basswood? (Yes, seriously that's what it's called) I know Squier has used that in the 00s/10s as well!

 

[T_Bone_TL]

As @Beej already mentioned, basswood is much plainer than what is seen here. Basswood is a popular carving wood based, in part, on how little it shows of itself. It makes a pretty good lightweight body under a hard finish, so long as the hard finish isn't struck too hard.

 

[SharpCat]

I just did finishing on an alder body. This is alder.

 

[sdjfoh]

+1 Alder

 

[Kubicki Fan]

Pores look like just like luaun. That's one of dozens of varieties of woods in the Meranti family. Some like your example are whiter than luaun. Meranti is a low cost, plentiful Asian hardwood, not necessarily lousy wood, but I avoid Meranti species--coarse and splintery, not especially stiff compared to weight, not super stable like real mahogany and the only wood that ever sent me to the Emergency Room(!)

White Meranti | The Wood Database (Hardwood)
Balau | The Wood Database (Hardwood)

In the 70s (showing my age here) I was carrying a particle board exterior door through an apartment building construction site and slipping between piles of stuff. The splintery edge of a piece of luaun plywood put a 1 1/4" splinter into my thigh as I was walking past that broke off under the skin. I couldn't get it out. It wasn't deep, went in crosswise. In the ER it took one tiny injection, one tiny incision and one or two tiny stitches and all gone.

In 2024 would have cost over 3k, but back then, not a big deal financially at all.

Anyway I already didn't like working with it. But as a body I'm sure it's fine. Looking at the stiffness, maple is in the 12s, walnut in the 11s and meranti is in the 10s, so I wouldn't make a neck out of it, but a body, sure. Sorry, TMI.

My Indonesian made Sterling short scale
was made from the same stuff, whatever it may be. I am judging by the neck pocket. It is a splintery wood.

 

[Rabidhamster]

Hello dear wood informed folks!

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What wood do you think that is, based on the grain on that picture?
Thank you for your help

That is certainly Agathis, no question.

(BTW Anyone who said this looks like alder has just had their wood identification privileges revoked. You’re still allowed in the “I don’t believe in tonewood” threads though lol. I don’t make the rules.)

 

[InstantEctobass]

That is certainly Agathis, no question.

(BTW Anyone who said this looks like alder has just had their wood identification privileges revoked. You’re still allowed in the “I don’t believe in tonewood” threads though lol. I don’t make the rules.)

Certainly, but still lots of different points of view...
Let's all say it's not plywood!!

Have a nice weekend

 

[Acoop]

Not expensive? ... That's a type of wood.

 

[mcnach]

Looks kinda "pink-ish" in the photo, hence the mahogany guess. I think Fender/Squire only used ash, alder, or Agathis. I'm no Fenderite though, one of them should be along shortly. Maybe change the thread title to say Squire? You'll get more hits that way.

or even... Squier!

(come on, it's not that hard )

 

[sikamikanico]

If I had to vote/bet I’d go with agathis, but I really don’t have a clue, so…

Alright, nevermind! There's no definitive answer to be given. This body was from 2010 and Fender stated it was Alder back then but subject to change. They used Agathis as far as I know but oh well... I think I'm gonna sell it "as is". Thank you for your inputs

that’s your answer… it’s simply a 2010 Squier body. No other info needed, any guess would potentially deceive the buyer.

 

[Rumblefisher]

Hello dear wood informed folks!

View attachment 5443908

What wood do you think that is, based on the grain on that picture?
Thank you for your help

Agathis

 

[Wesley R]

I admire you wood working people. My wood skills stopped developing when my 7th grade woods instructor called me a butcher.

 

[Basvarken]

Way too yellow looking to be Mahogany.
Maybe White Limba?.