There are 48 different mahagony. Gibson and Rickenbacker uses Khaya. Pores might not effect the adhesion reverse add more resistance. Most important thing is the sound , you cant get short lots of harmonics from it. It amps the strings bass spectrum.
Its a true wood for non resonating cavity solid instruments , it mimics the acoustic box with its sound spectrum. In Turkey , there are bigger availability of African woods and lute makers tried them a lot but sound strange. Every instrument evolves in the history with time tested woods. If you use one of the mahagony , it will be an instrument but not lute. Its like printing your photographs with modern inkjet technology but name them alternative technology. Whatever you call it , it will be not like film and photographic paper. Originality counts at arts. Umut -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
