Steel Guitar Builder

Can anyone tell me if American Tulipwood (Yellow Poplar) is any good for making pedal steels. Maple here in the UK is really expensive and where I live is virtually impossible to get hold of. I know Tulipwood is much lighter than Maple and the density is 580Kg per m3 as opposed to Maple being 770Kg per m3. What difference that makes I don't know so any help would be very much appreciated or in fact any other more common cheaper timber that would sub for Maple. Thanks. Dave.

I noticed your post on the forum.

You are not to far away from The Netherlands and after doing some research I found that they have stacks of a lumber that is called "Esdoorn" A translation will show you that it is the same as maple. Hope this helps

Thankyou George I'll look that up. Cheers Dave.

Hey Dave, my mind is running away from me. Di dI ever send you those raise/lower fingers? I honestly cant remember buddy.