ash?
Ash is a fairly hard wood and has been used for solid body electric basses.
Does anyone know if it's been used for double bass backs, sides, necks?
My arborist son in law tells me that basswood is called that because it was originally used to make double basses.
One reason I'm interested at this time in exploring other woods is that he has access to quite a lot of urban wood. The ash borer is killing ash trees, but they also cut down a lot of maple, some birch etc that is now just getting chewed up into mulch because they have to get rid of it.
It'd be nice to think we could find some musical instrument use for some of this wood.
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