Thread: australian woods for bridges

Dear all, i am wondering about using Australian woods to replace the ebony or rosewood often used in bridges for acoustic guitars. I have seen various types used such as casurina, blackwood, mulga, gidgee, myrtle or rose mahogany, Beefwood, minnerachi, wandoo or other desert woods such as boree, lancewood, they may have a similar consistency to the traditional woods.


I was wondering if anyone here has any first hand experience with this and how any alternative bridge woods will stack up in terms of stength , resonance and ability to transmit vibration efficiently to the soundboard.


Blackwood would seem to be a good alternative but for some reason doesn't seem to be used much in bridges, even by Maton or Cole Clark who use a lot of aussie woods for the rest of a guitar.

Aussie tonewoods (http://www.australiantonewoods.com/prod03.htm) has a good selection but i am looking for info on how the various options work and sound in realtime.

thanks john