Ovangkol is an excellent guitar wood as is the closely related Bubinga. My Lakewood has solid Ovangkol back and sides. The sound is somewhere between mahogany and Indian rosewood, perhaps slightly closer to the rosewood as 'Spaw has said.

I have a Flambeau/Lowden, c.1983, cutaway body with walnut back and sides. It has been an excellent workhorse for about 13 years. As with Willie-O's Vermont Lowden, the undersaddle pickup was stripped out when I bought it but the endpin jack and pots were till there. I subsequently fitted a large DiMarzio transducer directly under the bridge (no bridge pins design) and used the existing wiring and this gives a much warmer sound than the original system. Any feedback I control with an external graphic equalizer.

Mine cost me UKP 110 secondhand which was a pretty good bargain in my book!

Best regards,

mooman