Cherry keeps impressing me lately. It is plenty loud, but also textured, mellow and rich. This 11” cherry rim has a wood tone ring, a synthetic head and non steel strings. It’s a good all around combination that I can’t complain about. The 20” scale neck is short enough to be comfortable and light weight, but long enough to hold the G tuning well and look proportionate to the 11” rim. The Cherry and Walnut neck is all wood salvaged from the Carpenter Ant stash in Portland. The Pistachio fretboard, headplate and trim comes from California orchards.