One is from “the Tree”: a Honduran mahogany estimated at over 500 years old when it was felled in 1965. A genetic mutation has quilted the wood, yielding unequalled looks and sound.

The aged Mahogany wood was the first thing to catch my eye on the D’Angelico Premier Gramercy LS. Because this guitar is sub-$400, don’t expect solid Mahogany; this is all laminated.

At UBC’s Centre for Advanced Wood Processing, PhD student Joseph Doh Wook Kim plays a flawless riff on an electric guitar made with plantation-grown Fijian mahogany. The sound is deep, warm and ...

A set of ordinary mahogany, reddish-brown with straight grains, might run him a couple of hundred dollars. This one, with enough wood for the back and sides of a guitar, cost him in the thousands.

“Even though we [guitar makers] don’t represent a huge portion of the people that consume wood, we do serious damage ... rarer and older woods such as mahogany, ebony and rosewood.

The 45mm nut is bone. The mahogany neck is strengthened with walnut and joins the body with a compound dovetail neck. This is a serious acoustic guitar. Serious enough for the $2,499 outlay?