similar woods

[Aren Winebrenner]

Originally Posted by Arnold Schnitzer

A few years back I bought a huge ash plank and cut it into bass backs. If anyone wants to try it, I could be convinced to sell some of it.

This sounds interesting. PM sent!

[Joel Larsson]

Originally Posted by Aren Winebrenner

This sounds interesting. PM sent!

This sounds interesting. Further reports requested as things are proceeding. .

[Martin Sheridan]

Ken,
Do you have the latin name for the swamp ash? I need it for the arborist son in law.

Arnold,
Is the Ash you have flamed?

[Ken Smith]

Originally Posted by Martin Sheridan

Ken,
Do you have the latin name for the swamp ash? I need it for the arborist son in law.

Arnold,
Is the Ash you have flamed?

Ahh, Swamp Ask is NOT a species. It is a 'trade name' for a variety of the Southern grown Ash (Tennessee, Alabama, etc.. I think?) that is a measured portion of the Lumber or part of tree or measured individual pieces of Kiln Dried Lumber of Ash that weighs about 2.8-3.2 lbs/bdft.

In other words, Swamp Ash is what every the seller calls it because there is little exact rule of at what stage the wood is weighed and from what exact species or region they actually got the wood from.

Is every Fender Guitar or Bass and the Clones on the market made from so called 'light-weight' Ash, aka Swamp Ash? Not from what I have seen.

In my Website wood pages for Ash, we have only what I have been told it's called, Fraxinus Nigra as I was told it's 'Black Ash' that the wood comes from. I cannot verify that for sure so feel free to correct me. In the last 12 years, no one has even mentioned it, so there..