What Wood Is This Guitar Body?

[Duggy]

I sanded down my old strat copy, and found this:

Is this any decent kind of wood or shitty ply type crap?

[godzilla]

It's hard for me to tell. Can you get a shot of the edge, or the end grain?

Steve

[orgmorg]

My guess is Agathis, which is a pacific island wood often used in import guitars.

Definitely not plywood, though.

[Duggy]

Few more pics

[orgmorg]

Still hard to say.

As far a whether it's a decent wood or not- If you like the way it sounds and the way it looks, that's all that really matters.

[godzilla]

+1 on what orqmorq says, the grain looks quite nice to me.

Steve