GUITARS!!

[AmericanBuffalo]

Aww man, the Hamer Californian! Forgot all about those, they looked fantastic 

Your obvious skills are not surprising considering your work history, bravo

What’s your favourite tone wood combination?

I’m partial to alder body and maple board for Strats, and mahogany and rosewood for the LP/PRS route

I like swamp ash and maple as a combination when it comes to Fender strat and tele's. I think that is a classic tone combo. However I am a huge Honduran mahogany fan. its hard to come by these days. So mahogany capped with maple like PRS and Gibson is my favorite combination. I put a bit of a spin on that by topping walnut with maple. Which has a darker tone than mahogany and walnut is heavy too. I prefer rosewood fretboards myself. I would like a maple neck with a light finish on the fingerboard or no finish at all. I don't like the feel of a finished fretboard.  Maple is bright in tone, mahogany is dense and more shaded in tone, walnut is just dark. Excellent for bass!  Alder is a great tonewood too it has a solid tone and is a stable wood to work with.  Walnut and mahogany have a similar grain to one another. Maple is in its own category. It has a grain kind of like birch and cherry to some extent. Alder is like poplar with a bit more graining and no green wood.
I know a bit about guitars. The rest of the world not so much, especially these days.