A number of years ago Mark Blanchard built a wenge guitar that I thought had tremendous clarity—perhaps less scooped than Brazilian can be and none of the muddiness that EIR can have. Also beautiful in a kind of straight-grained, chocolatey way. I don’t recall him mentioning the issue with splinters (although another builder on this forum once memorably said “If you even look at wenge, it can shoot a splinter into you from across the room!”) though Mark did mention the pore problem in finishing. But once that guitar was done, it was really something.
Last edited by Richard Mott; 02-27-2023 at 07:32 AM.
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