Help me choose a timber combination

[BR Ukuleles]

I'm starting out a couple of spec instruments that will be for sale in a couple of months. I thought I had the wood combo's sorted out, but now I'm of two minds on which I prefer. The choice is Australian Blackwood with either a Torrified Sitka Spruce or an Engelmann Spruce soundboard.

The other is Ambrosia Maple with the same choice.

Which would you choose?

 

[mjanousek]

0001 gets my vote. Primarily for visual reasons but also think it will be a nice tonal combination.

 

[ploverwing]

Blackwood with torrified, maple with Englemann.

But really, either choice will be and both will sound glorious.

 

[Orra]

Both stunning.
Visually, for me, I’d love to see that light maple with the dark torrefied top. One of your lovely segmented rosettes in maple would really set it off.

 

[Kei]

Doesn’t seem like you can go wrong sound wise. Visually, I love the contrast of light and dark together even though some will say “this is not guitar lutherie!” That maple is sublime and that blackwood is stunning.

 

[Mike $]

Any way to make the entire body out of the same wood? I don't mind mixed wood on guitars so much, but on ukes it doesn't do it for me. If you were making a guitar, I would choose option 1 or 3.

 

[sequoia]

I'm starting out a couple of spec instruments that will be for sale in a couple of months. I thought I had the wood combo's sorted out, but now I'm of two minds on which I prefer. The choice is Australian Blackwood with either a Torrified Sitka Spruce or an Engelmann Spruce soundboard.

The other is Ambrosia Maple with the same choice.

Which would you choose?

1 and 3 for me. Good contrast.