nice guitar dude. i haven't seen a guitar with so many different kinds of wood put together for a body, well except for bass. it must have a very interesting sound.
speaking of african timbers, there is a good selection at my local wood shop. they are using these wood as alternatives to such woods as mahogany, oak, ash to name a few. here are the names of some african timbers at my local wood shop: Anegre, Iroko, Koto, Sapele and Utile. [bubinga is my favourite tone wood of all time, but due too lack of availability i can only get pieces suitable for necks and tops.] i am taking full advantage of African timbers because some of species that are available, their tone/s have not been unlocked yet - used in musical instruments. e.g. Bubinga is used a little bit on guitars, mainly basses. it is a really underated tone wood. their are still tone woods out there which we have not discovered yet. Experiment!
i am using a wood called sipo mahogany for the body of my first guitar project or as the trade name goes; Utile. the wood looks and weighs so much like brazilian mahogany, they only way i could tell it wasn't was by the the interlocked grains on the Utile. i know that Sapele is used on many guitars. Entandrophragma utile - Utile has the same genus as Sapele: Entandrophragma cylindricum. Utile is used as an alternative to brazilian mahogany, and cost about 1/4 of the price of brazilian too. it is a bonus too because all the pieces i have quarter cut and have quite fine grains - taken from virgin forest. so i am hoping i can get a good tone out of this species. well we'll have to wait for the finished product.
sorry for hijacking your thread John.