A nice piece of....?

Can somebody help me remember what I made this tele body out of? It is a hardwood very much like Ash in grain texture but without the little dark streaks and it has a slight yellowish tint to it. Light weight like swamp ash, has a very high pitched ring to it. Thanks for any help:

Does it smell like pine?

(sort of just kidding...I grew up surrounded by pine). Poplar maybe?


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I think I remember being told that it was imported, i.e., not domestic, but I don't remember the region of the world it's supposed to have come from. It sort of looks like IKEA wood, if that makes any sense. It's really hard and doesn't dent easily at all. Pine I could dent with my knuckles, I'd need a hammer for this.

color reminds me of red oak...or maybe even bass wood

The color is very much like pine or basswood, but the grain is very dense like mohogany; in fact, aside from the light weight and color, this stuff is very much like the densest and heaviest mohoganys that I've seen.

Wow, I think i found a match (no, not my face and...). I bought the table at the local Big Box lumber/hardware, anyone have a guess as to what kind of wood they make this cheap furniture out of, it's solid wood and not particle board.

Jatoba (Brazilian Cherry) or Sapele (African Mahogany)? Either of those names ring a bell?

No, but that doesn't mean thats not what it is. Lots of different names for types of wood.

Paulownia?

Jatoba (Brazilian Cherry) or Sapele (African Mahogany)? Either of those names ring a bell?

I think you may have it with the Jatoba. I've seen some light color, light weight variants of that and it can fit all the other details. The problem is that there's often many species of wood that get sold under one name. Makes it hard to completely identify and almost impossible to get more that particular species.

OK, now I remember that when I bought it I was told it was called Primavera, also called white mahogany. From what I can tell from pics on the internet, it looks a lot like Paulownia too, but I don't think it is that light. Would any of you guys make a tele out of Primavera?

Also, when I routed out the shape, I nicked it on the bass side corner of the neck (as opposed to bridge) end of the neck pocket. Worth fixing? Or should I just use this as a sort of "master" template since it was itself made from a pretty accurate template?

If you plan to paint it, I say fix it...bondo, plastic wood...

If it was mine , I would simply re-route the shelf back far enough to remove the damage and tell anyone that questions it that I built it that way . The build that I am playing at this moment had a tearout where the top strap post would be . I re-routed the tearout out using the same template . Looks fine .

I carefully took about 1.5 mm off the end of the shelf with a disk sander and hand sanded the corner radii smooth, not the ideal solution but I think there will be enough left to extend past the neck plate about 1.5 mm. I now have 8.5 mm from the screw hole centers to the end of the shelf instead of the original 10 mm. I really sort of want to sand it all the way back to the edge of the screw holes and glue on a piece, but I need to fine a small chunk of Primavera or something very similar.

I also have a neck blank that's been sitting around for 5 or 6 years; this may turn into a project since I want to learn how to make the fender one piece "skunk stripe" type of neck. I've been watching Scheltema's videos and also have a skunk stripe neck on another Tele to copy from.

This body weighs 4.5 lb, is that very light for a Tele?:

Also, do have the grain orientation right for this neck? The last one I made from this batch of wood twisted on me: