Woods that need no finish

[Jon Bell]

Hi,

I'm planning on making a scratchplate and control cavity covers out of wood. I'm after a very natural look for this guitar so I would like to know which woods need no finish at all. I think that ebony, rosewood and paduak need no finish but I was wondering if theere are any others?

[Scott Rosenberger]

Most if not all of the Oily Exotic hardwoods don't nees a finish. ie, Cocobolo, Rosewoods, Satine/Bloodwood, Purpleheart, Wenge, Ziricote, Paduak, to name a few

[skibum5545]

Wenge is nice, I used it as the backplate on my guitar, and Warwick uses it for necks. What Scott said seems to pretty much cover it, though, as semi-common woods go.

[Devon Headen]

Bocote, but it doesn't really lend itself to many other woods well.