I might be a guy. Or I might be a guy pretending to be a girl who's pretending to be a guy.
Yep, that's mine.
Here's what I learned about torrefied maple:
During WWII, the US navy was looking for a substitute for teak to use on ship decks and they came up with a process called torrefaction.
Wood is place in a low pressure, low temp oven (like 200 degrees or so) and baked until the moisture content is zero. Then, they inject steam back into under high pressure until the moisture is back to 6%.
The result is a wood that is much harder than the original, 30% lighter, dimensionally stable, warp resistant, bug resistant and waterproof. The process also darkens the wood.
The downside is some brittleness.
Then, of course, the navy started using steel, so everyone forgot about torrefaction until the recent ban on pressure treated lumber due to arsenic in the process. Torrefaction was revived as a sub for pressure treated lumber. Once people started making it, others realized that it would be useful in other places...like guitars.
Anyway, the one on mine is smooth as glass and damn hard. You can try all you want to push a fingernail into it, but you can't make a mark. I've tried. Hell, even trying to radius the edge of the fretboard a bit was a real chore. It's hard.
From 5 feet away, you can't tell it isn't rosewood. Playing it, you'd swear it was ebony.
I'm a fan.
EG