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It’s interesting, not seen this before, reminds me of plywood or yellow pine??

If I had to guess, a top layer of dyed flat sawn quilted maple on a laminate.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Tamo ash.

https://www.wood-database.com/tamo-ash/

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Cool, never heard of it!

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Yup, Tamo with peanut figure.....

Quilted maple exhibits best as flatsawn if I recall correctly so not so sure about that.

I was going to guess tamo ash too. That top reminds of the tamo ash Ibanez used on their Musician series of electric guitars in the late 70s into early 80s. Some of those had similar figuring. Here's one I have. Not as "peanutty", but similar grain details.

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I've seen tamo ash on a number of imports - Ibanez, Dean, etc. Obviously, rotary cut veneer with a dramatic figure. I find it attractive.

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Highly figured veneer always seems to at least photograph 'flatter' than either a thick veneer (0.060" or better) or solid wood. I had some lovely quilted maple 1/24th inch-thick stock that I used on a non-guitar project a few years back, and was very surprised to see how flat looking it was as compared to the very similar solid wood edge trim under finish.

I have to wonder if there is a magic thickness in quilt or other high-figure veneers that gives the full depth of appearance of the solid wood from which it originated. Rotary-cut always looks flatter to me than flitch-cut veneer, but neither looks quite like solid wood.

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