It is a very pale colour, much lighter than the mahogany body on my other kit. To be honest, I had to go back and double check the kit specs when I got it. But the grain does have some aspects to it that look like the mahogany body on that AG. I'm by no means a timber expert, however.

In checking that other kit, I realise now that the finish is much more even than I remembered. Think I was getting confused with yet another kit I was building at the same time which wasn't mahogany, it had a maple neck. I'm getting too old to be trying to do more than one thing at a time. That one ended up quite blotchy (yet another "I did that on purpose" finish).

So, maybe a real light dye is the way to go. Just a matter of trying to get the right colour and intensity. I'll have a small amount of off-cut to test with when I do the headstock.

I've always liked the idea of attempting a shellac, but just reading how to go about it has always had me believing I'll stuff it up so I never actually do it. I guess the beauty of a bolt-on neck is if it goes completely awry, can always just get a new neck and try again.