For the more exotic woods (anything outside of Maple, birch, or cherry) I usually tend to prefer stave construction over ply simply because I refuse to build ply shells. I'm not a big production, everything is put together in my one bedroom apartment and in order to put a ply shell together costs me an arm and a leg. For around $425 I can have a 14" stave mahogany ssnare with some lug design. I can't get DW lugs. Pretty much any other style lugs are I am able to get.....
I do have a whole bunch of satin chrome DW lugs that I am waiting to throw on a kit that I am building for myself.