Actually, when I was talking to Matthew Larrivee a week or so ago, he indicated they were not switching to sapele, but to khaya, an african mahogany. It was visually and tonally so close to south american mahogany, I'd bet that 99% of you would have to guess which was which, and still be wrong half the time. It is beautiful stuff, and I looked at a few sets that looked more like premium mahogany than premium mahogany does -
They did use Sapele for some instruments, but prefered the Khaya.
Tad
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