Check out this hot piece of ash

[jeremy]

umm... yeah. its hard wood. i do love it though. got a swamp ash esquire i made years ago, 2006 i think, sounds amazing but isnt a light weight. also has a little custom bit where the neck pocket routing template moved a bit on the first pass. lesson learned. dont use the same tape on a second guitar. kinda looks cool though. this is the only pic i can find quickly

 

[ehdwuld]

I knew it was hard, but not "kill your palm router" hard

I'm switching to cherry for the time being, that's the best my local yard has for my purposes

Pine

Teles and Strats should be Pine

 

[Snake Aces]

There's no doubt about it, ash is a durable, sturdy wood. It makes instruments that will outlive us.

 

[blakejcan]

what glue did you use to put those two halves together?

Looks like it's coming along. Ash is so dang heavy and hard. But if you're willing to put in the work it can be great. If you're ever up for it, try making an ash guitar but with a chambered body. It cuts down the weight a ton but the ash is so rigid that it vibrates a ton when it's got some air it can move around inside it.

 

[Snake Aces]

I definitely prefer chambered ash bodies. I have two solid body ash axes, one guitar and one bass. And I have one chambered ash guitar.

The chambered ash guitar is perfect. The solid body guitar is paired with a roasted maple neck which makes it a reasonable weight and it really sounds great.

The solid body ash bass on the other hand is heavy as hell. It's paired with a thicker p-bass neck profile that's also a heavy wood, bubinga. Both the body and neck are anchors, it's an avid neck diver and the whole thing weighs about 13 pounds. It's a great practice or studio bass, but too heavy for use on stage outside of a song here or there. I call that bass the Brickhouse.

I used to have another ash bass, it was a chambered body paired with a thinner Jazz bass neck profile with bubinga. I sold it to a buddy of mine and ex-bandmate back in 2009 or 2010. I miss that bass. Chambered ash is the way to go.

All my future ash bodies will be chambered, no doubt.

 

[Mincer]

Northern ash is the baseball bat stuff. Southern ash can be lighter, and it is the stuff that grows in the swamp to become swamp ash.

 

[Snake Aces]

Northern ash is the baseball bat stuff. Southern ash can be lighter, and it is the stuff that grows in the swamp to become swamp ash.

All my bodies feature swamp ash sourced by Warmoth or the carved top on my bass sourced by orpheo. I prefer swamp ash. I played a northern ash strat once, it was okay but it wasn't the same as swamp ash.