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Old 04-16-2012, 06:38 AM
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I think it's perception. Just as mahogany suffered from being the repalcement for rosewood on low-end models, sapele suffers from being the low-end replacement for mahogany. Each is a perfectly good tone wood in its own right. Sapele tends to have a banded grain pattern. Some like it, some don't. But it's a good wood that suffers from its association as a replacement for mahogany when the latter is too expensive or too difficult to obtain in quantity.
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