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Mahogany neck, rosewood b/s, spruce top!


Misha

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Very common. Mahogany offers a great balance of strength to weight and is very stable. It's the most popular neck material for quality steel string acoustics but is becoming increasingly scarce (so we hear). A common alternative is Spanish cedar - long used as neck material on classical guitars - which is slightly lighter and almost as strong. Martin used Spanish cedar as the neck material on its 16 series originally, but somewhere around a year ago changed the neck specs on most of its guitars to "Select Hardwood," reserving the right to use their own discretion in selecting neck wood. I understand through hearsay that Spanish cedar is also running short...

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