LuisArco27

Thanks. Sorry for not searching myself, but I never heard of Agathis before. I found a couple of pictures and I suspect it is Agathis. I think I probably can't get that easily over here, so I'll probably using a different piece of wood. Ah well, it's a Squier, can't do much harm to it I guess.

I need some help here. I can't figure out what kind of wood this guitar body is made of. It's a 2002 Squier made in China (serial starts with CY). It's one of the Affinity series. I'm going to put a different bridge on it and a couple of humbuckers. After that I want to fill some holes (the tremelo rout and some of the rout for the pu's) with wood and wood paste, but before I do that I need to what wood it is made of. From wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squier_Stratocaster) I've learned that it's either Basswood, Alder (don't think so) or Agathis (never heard of it before.) I hope anyone can help me on this one. http://img338.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0980kq7.jpg

I doubt if black korina should be used for a neck or fingerboard. According to the warmoth-site the wood isn't suitable for it. http://www.warmoth.com/guitar/options/options_bodywoods.cfm

I've got the same feeling. If you see the Dean V and the 58 Flying V from Gibson/Epiphone, then there aren't that many differences except for the headstock and the pickguard that Dean doesn't have. Do they have some kind of agreement?