I am cynical about everything, pretty much. This is just one more example of dishonest by the marketing department of guitar companies. African Mahogany doesn't exist. Swietania simply doesn't grow in Africa, so by definition, African Mahogany cannot exist. Descriptions could be of the form "an African hardwood that is (tonally) similar to Cuban/Honduras/Tropical Mahogany". Your own example of the GAD 100 series is a perfect example. In fact, should somebody have decided to make an issue of it to the extent of starting legal proceedings, they probably would have won in just about any court of law, as the guitar was said to have a mahogany body, with no mahogany in sight. My whole point is that they called the body mahogany in order to get the buyer to believe that it was indeed mahogany, WHICH IT WAS NOT. How difficult would it have been to call the body "Sapele" (or whatever wood species was being used)? It would have been far more honest to the buyer, and would have eliminated any possibility of legal action. As it is, it was strictly done to gain more sales because Mahogany was a known tone wood, and people were generally familiar with its tonal properties.