Can someone tell me when Mapex changed the shell construction of the Saturn series from maple/basswood to maple/walnut? I'm particularly interested in what they would have been doing around 2006-07. My reasons for this will become clear later.
There was maple-mahogany-maple (satrun pro?) in there for a while too. I think 2006-7 you should be safe enough to assume that they are maple and walnut.
Ah, brilliant, thanks! Basically, I've just bought a 2007-vintage Saturn that I'm yet to go and collect and I wanted to find out how similar it is to the more recent ones.
Yeah, it is cool isn't it! I think this must be Laser Black Sparkle or whatever it was called. And I agree, it looks too pale to be walnut...but that could just be the picture as everywhere seems to state that all Saturns post-2002 would be maple/walnut. And they are the newer badges as well:
Ah, also from a post on another forum (from 2010):
"Also (as nobody has mentioned it yet) they recently started coating the insides of the shells. I believe this was last year. The wood on the non-coated versions appears lighter than the coated versions, but it is still walnut."
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