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:	post by Niccolai at 2004-12-07 18:50:10

I should have cought this thread sooner.
The VAST majority of budget guitars will be alder or poplar
Agathis is never laminated as ply wood (plywood- compact layers of budget wood) and is not, it's an exotic hardwood just like any other guitar wood (maple, rosewood, chocabolo, bloodwood, koa, korina, wenge, ovangkol, poplar, ect) it's a hardwood and on cheaper imports, they make in in a sortof particle board form out of a big piece of mut-wood. Poplar, maple, and alder are also all exotic hardwoods and are sometimes made into guitars the same way.
Agathis is in the pine familly and commonly named, kauri pine. It grows in newzealand and the philipines so it's readily available to the guitar making industry.
As far as wood quality goes, it can handle more dry and more moist extreems better than mahogany (wich is a very soft, very pourous wood) and is comparably as hard as maple, wich means it's hard and a bitch to sand. It's rots at about half the rate of mahogany and is less toxic. I personally prefer maple necks with maple or koa wings with figure maple on top, i think it gives great solid, high end response.
alot of people like mahogany wings for added warmth but I don't like matching it to other wood, because since it expands and contrasts at a different rate, theres a good chance the glue line will start to swell and it just looks horrable.
When I laminate mahogany, theres a horrable process of sanding, filling, sanding, filling, ect while wearing a mask because it's highly toxic.
I would take agathis over mahogany any day.

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