Its mahogany and ash on the body, the neck is mahogany. It's got a GFS mini humbucker. The volume control is a push pull wired to put the pickup in series or parallel. It sounds good better than the lap steel my father in law was using (a Nationl). I think it's called a New Yorker. The scale length is 25.5 inches and the fretboard is maple. The National has a much shorter scale I think about 20 inches. My father inlaw remarked that the bass response on this is much nicer. But there may be something wrong with the humbucker I had to raise the screw on the pole piece for the high E string quite a bit to get a balanced sound. The string is about 1/8 of an inch to the side of the center of the pole screw. That may be why it's output is weak but I thing the pickup itself is at fault. If I had to do it over I would of bought a better pick up probably a Bill Lawrence rail.