Satin Box

[mac007]

Hi,

I recently bought two planks of Satin Box with view to making some necks.

I read "somewhere" it had good properties in terms of stiffness and stability.

Unloading it from the car I noticed how heavy it is. On checking-it has a density ~900kg/m3
Curly maple seems around half that.

Has anyone tried this species (SB) for acoustic or archtop necks?

chrs

MK

[kiwigeo]

A dense neck wood is great for sustain...but can affect balance of the instrument...especially if youre playing it standing up

[seeaxe]

Don't know about necks but Tim Spittle was selling it as binding and I thought it was really good.