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Originally Posted by nacluth
We recently completed a dread out of Paldao that looks extremely similar to your wood. It was very mahogany-like in build and sound. Honestly in many ways it was superior to Honduran Mahogany. We got our set from Steven Roberson of Colonial Tonewoods.
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Paldao is a new word for me! My set came from Tom Thiel, retired, who told me where he got it, not that I remember, and that is was "tested" and was genuine Honduran, which I stake my reputation that it is not. It is harder and tighter grained (both ring count and pore size) than any mahogany I've seen, and has a different smell and a different feel under the knife. I expect it to sound like chicken . . . I mean mahogany.