Acoustic Guitar Construction

Any reason why poplar would not work for the endblock, as long as the grain orientation is correct?

I can't see why it wouldn't work just fine. I've thought about it myself, and also making kerfing from it. Very inexpensive wood, and pretty stable
The only thing would be looks....but the end block is pretty much un lookable..:>)

Kevin

As long as the moisture content is at 6 or 7 % --- Thinking back, based on the size of your tree that blew down you should have enough wood for about 5 million tail blocks.

Tailblocks 'R' Us.

This poplar however is a dry board I got at the HD.

I bought an aspen board a while back for another project that never took off. I have used it for tail blocks on two guitars. It is hard enough and light enough in my opinion. And the grain is the right direction, so why not?

A lightweight wood will do I guess, but the strapbuttonscrew will loosen sooner. Maybe a hardwooddowel there will do the job.

Herman

I had not thought of the button issue. I might switch from the aspen I have and use something harder.