Intro & what kind of wood is this?

[Mike Henderson]

Either Spanish cedar or Philippine mahogany (which is not really mahogany).

Mike

[Wade Lippman]

Philippine Mahogany covers about 30 different woods with very different properties. I bought a big lot of it a few years back; some could pass for mahogany, and some was more like balso wood.
It does look like meranti, but you aren't likely to get any Meranti marked US.
But it doesn't look much like any US wood, so maybe.

[Jim Ringo]

I'd guess a 'mahogany' too... either meranti/lauan or Khaya