Over on my MAS thread, Allen Hopkins and I were
discussing Octofones, new and old.
Apparently the top and bracing of the new ones are made of something called "MoonWood":
Allen quotes from the Octofone Guitar Co.
website:
Top and internal Bracing – MoonWood – Spruce-from the Swiss/Austrian/Italian Alps- This forest is located above 10,000 feet and is the very same forest that Stradivarius used to make his famous violins nearly 200 years ago.
Is this really a thing? Love to hear what some of you dendrology and tonewood folks think.