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Wood type based on 1 picture?

#42
Wesley R said:
I admire you wood working people. My wood skills stopped developing when my 7th grade woods instructor called me a butcher.
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I had a similar experience in 8th grade. My project was held up by the teacher as an example of what not to do. It was embarrassing and humiliating, which didn't help the fact that I was already being victimized by bullies for various other reasons.

Then in high school, I discovered metal, which helped to reconcile and channel a lot of these pent-up frustrations and aggression. That still carries me to this day, so much to the chagrin of a lot of the older players in this and the other popular community, I'm still a fan of the obnoxious pointy guitars :smug:.

So now I'm a novice woodworker, having grown into it after building my first kit guitar in 2019. Looking toward that as my post-retirement hobby after I'm done with my technology career (5 years & counting). Whenever I'm working on a guitar or knickknack in the shop, every so often, the memories of that teacher and class come floating back into my mind, and I work harder. Spite is a powerful motivational tool, especially when it's had time to fester for almost 40 years! :)

I love coming here and learning something new or different with almost every topic, and being able to apply it to an actual project. I learn more from this forum than I did in that woodshop class in jr. high.
 
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My school wood-shop experience was not so much psychically scarring as (being, I suppose, intended for those going on to factory jobs pushing sticks through machines) utterly inappropriate for learning about the sort of tooling I could have used for several decades of not having a large shop space and several kilo-buck individual machines available.
 
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JeezyMcNuggles said:
Alder
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THIS pic is of known alder. Compare lower half of pocket (with the straighter grain) to OP pic. Looks like same to me.
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SharpCat said:
THIS pic is of known alder. Compare lower half of pocket (with the straighter grain) to OP pic. Looks like same to me.
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I said alder because, if it's not some special model, it's alder. Fender makes their P and J basses of alder. They have special models that use various wood types, but generally, if it's a fender it's alder.
 
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JeezyMcNuggles said:
I said alder because, if it's not some special model, it's alder. Fender makes their P and J basses of alder. They have special models that use various wood types, but generally, if it's a fender it's alder.
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Well, OP states in a followup that this is a Squier. So by this logic, that should make it BASSwood, right? :eek:

Looking at the samples in the wood database, I don't think it's basswood. I don't think they were using poplar at that time (2010-ish), but also doesn't look like poplar. Ash is right out. I don't think it's Sapele--that looks close to mahogany, but the OP pic does not.
 
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SharpCat said:
Well, OP states in a followup that this is a Squier. So by this logic, that should make it BASSwood, right? :eek:

Looking at the samples in the wood database, I don't think it's basswood. I don't think they were using poplar at that time (2010-ish), but also doesn't look like poplar. Ash is right out. I don't think it's Sapele--that looks close to mahogany, but the OP pic does not.
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Thanks for further investigating but in the end I sold that body today... I have other plans! :o
 

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