ok. I am  planning  on making a rack. I have been looking around for Maple, but am not able to get a single block, which means joints. What are the other woods that may sound good? What is available in plenty is teak, padak and sliverwood. Any suggestions?.......not interested in MDF.

Thanks,

shreekant

Probably wouldn't be cost-effective to ship to Shreekant in India. . . .

Shree, I have always been fascinated by the use of wood in instruments and I come from a long line of cabinet makers on my mother's side (and one of the best old world trained American pipe-organ builders was my five-great grandfather David Tannenberg) and wood in general fascinates me. I find these pages pretty darned helpful regarding the use of wood in instruments, which I think may parallel their use in an equipment rack:

http://tonewooddatasource.weebly.com/species--attributes.html
http://www.ergcustomguitars.com/tonewood.asp

Looks as if teak will work a bit like walnut, and I think that may make a nice, warm-sounding rack.

Padauk some don't recommended except for ornamentation or decoration, while others will say it's like maple and mahogany, which are great tonewoods. I guess the jury is out, but it's a beautiful wood and may make a great rack.

I think silver wood is what we call silver oak, and that seems to be a very balanced sounding tonewood, and easy to work with. It might make an excellent rack.