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Post by propellr on Oct 27, 2007 5:59:00 GMT -7
Maple is bright. Rosewood is warm. Pao Ferro is similar to rosewood. Ebony is warm with bright attack.
Here's my question: What other hardwoods are guitar manufacturers using for fingerboards and what other woods are suitable?
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Post by woody on Oct 27, 2007 6:27:42 GMT -7
You know I often ponder...can you really hear these qualities when guitar is amplified..If you take the same guitars only difference are the woods then blind play each one could you a. Identify the wood b. if yes is the contrast between the woods enough to choose one or the other? I personally cant tell one from the other and choose wood based on appearance only. That being said I really like the look of birdseye maple
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Post by dixiechicken on Oct 27, 2007 6:58:12 GMT -7
DC here!
Another good neck woods would be Zebrano, Bubinga, Padouk, Wenge & Ziricote . I believe that Rickenbacker uses Bubinga for their bass-necks.
Many manufacturers uses some of these woods as fretboard wood only - mainly because they are expensive and hard to get.
"woody" - yes you can - to a certain extent. It is true that the differences are NOT so articulated as with acoustic guitars. Nevertheless there's is a difference.
There's a big difference in sound wise between a Les Paul and a Gibson ES-335 even though they uses the same woods the same PAF-59:rs.
The hollow body with "through-the-body headstock" influences the sound in a quite noticeable way.
Cheers: Dixiechicken
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Post by Telemanic on Oct 27, 2007 10:14:45 GMT -7
Yeah i also think that the only way to really truly do an accurate, or rather hear an accurate representation of the difference in sound between the fretboard wood types, would be to somehow quickly swap necks on the same guitar. There are so many other tone variables when you pick up a different guitar to hear IT'S fretboard, that i'm not sure you can be absolute in how much difference is in the board itself or the guitar being inherently different in tone qualities. I suppose if one knew their guitar well enough you could take the time it would take to swap a rosewood for a maple, say on a strat, and have enough tone memory to hear the difference. Although my experience is that my tone memory doesn't last too long!
Also as to what Woody said, i feel that depending on your amp and gain style, one could certainly mask any difference in the sound of the fretboard alone. Ya know say if youv'e got the amp really gained out and compressed etc. I think if one was to play in a clean to low/med gain you can hear the difference in the initial attack, a kind of click to the maple boards and to a lesser degree the ebony VS. rosewood. Maybe subtle, but there?
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Post by tritone6 on Oct 27, 2007 10:51:11 GMT -7
i don't know if i have been conditioned to believe that there is a big difference in sound or not. but to my ears a strat with a maple board sounds much different than one with rosewood. enough so that i own one of each. i also hear a big difference between a les paul with ebony, and one with rosewood. not as much as the maple and rosewood, enough so, that i wish i could afford another les paul.
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Post by Paul (TRANE) on Oct 27, 2007 13:03:22 GMT -7
Snake Wood is a good one. Cocobolo is a really nice one. Brighter than rosewood but not a brittle as ebony.
Paul G.
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Post by jwr on Oct 27, 2007 13:39:56 GMT -7
Definitely can hear a difference, but also just as important I can feel the difference. I just got a Grosh Retro Classic with a one piece maple neck and board and Swamp Ash body. Next to my friend's Fender with maple neck and rosewood board with an alder body the differences where quite obvious. Both are killer sounds, that's why I'm ordering another Grosh in a month from now set up like my buddy's Fender. It was quite a bit warmer and mellow but didn't have the pop and spank of my strat and I think each of those tones are important to have.
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Post by highway61south on Oct 27, 2007 19:07:47 GMT -7
Go to Warmoths website and there is a description for just about every neck and body wood you can think of...................Sterling
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Post by jwr on Oct 27, 2007 23:25:31 GMT -7
Go to Warmoths website and there is a description for just about every neck and body wood you can think of...................Sterling Yup, Tom Anderson's web site is good too.
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Post by Hohn on Oct 28, 2007 1:21:18 GMT -7
Snake Wood is a good one. Cocobolo is a really nice one. Brighter than rosewood but not a brittle as ebony. Paul G. Cocobolo makes for a killer acoustic, too-- sounds a lot like Brazilian! A friend has a Taylor that was made in limited numbers for Wildwood guitars and it has the cocobolo body. You'd swear it was a pre-war HD28 by sheer "bigness" of acoustic tone. As that guitar ages, it will become truly magical... jmo
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Post by dixiechicken on Oct 28, 2007 7:22:56 GMT -7
With my new rebuilt custom Warmoth Telecaster I have a lot more sustain than I did with the old one.
With the old Tele I played very differently while soloing - as compared to soloing on my "Lester". With the old Telecaster I played a lot more countryish and shorter chops an much more rythm oriented.
With the new Telcaster I find I'm starting to play a lot more like I do on the "Paul". Longer chops, more stringbending, hang on to notes a bit longer, play more fluidlike etc.
Cheers: Dixiechicken
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