Oh, heavy question.
I guess I don't have a favorite
Mahogany, easy to cut, beautiful and elegant...just hard to come by.
For beauty, Tiger Maple.
Oak I love for water scenes...Oak is nice to work with
Walnut is beautiful.
Maybe Ash
Ike, some sawmills here get more $ money $ for wood chips than for lumber.
Thats because some mfg. plants are using wood chips to produce energy.
So most sawmills are chipping "ALL" scrap.
Becoming hard to get unless you know someone.