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Originally Posted by Robi
Actually, this is a real ash! Swamp ash is usually used for building guitars because it has fewer grains, so it's lighter. This ash is normal ash and it's used for making tables, chairs etc and it's a bit heavier, but sound should be pretty much the same.
I bought it last year when I didn't know swamp ash is better and I've already made a telecaster, and now I'm making two strats and lap steel guitar, tele is too heavy to make another of that wood..
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I have to fill in and say my part, there are several builders who use regular ash by chambering routs into their bodies and by that reducing weight.
Sadowsky once said that most if not all of his customers thinks that his chambered basses sounds better than the light swamp ash basses he did previously.