IMO wood properties set a sort of upper limit to what the guitar may be able to do. Sadly, it's all too easy to make a bad guitar out of fine wood. OTOH, a good maker can make a very nice instrument out of wood that it less stellar.
I will say that I'm liking oak more and more the more I use it. All of the oak guitars I've made have drawn compliments for sound. It's too bad that people still think you can't make a good guitar out of it.
At any rate, if I were looking for the closest thing to the sound of BRW without the CITES/Lacey issues I'd go for Osage.
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