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What  wood for fretboard

Maple
8 (27.6%)
Rosewood
9 (31%)
Ebony
12 (41.4%)

Total Members Voted: 27

Voting closed: February 08, 2007, 12:06:11 AM

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« on: February 01, 2007, 12:06:11 AM »
What's your choice of wood for your fretboard, and if you want to elaborate why have to it.
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« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2007, 12:50:41 AM »
My fretboard preferences are maple for Strats, rosewood for Les Pauls and ebony for acoustics. :wink:
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« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2007, 12:51:04 AM »
I chose maple. I like the 'clean' look of maple (tho I don't clean mine nearly enough), and I like the snap and attack it adds to my tone.
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« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2007, 07:24:03 AM »
MAPLE
My second hand Maverick Prototype has the best neck I have ever played.
It's great for shred, even strung with 11s :twisted:
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« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2007, 07:43:24 AM »
I prefer maple on strats and superstrats, but rosewood or ebony on Les Pauls. Thats purely on looks though, I havent done any direct comparisons on the tone of fingerboards, all I know is that my guitar with maple fingerboard is brighter than my other 2 guitars, but its also probably due to the body etc..
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« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2007, 07:49:43 AM »
Ebony is definitely my favourite, but I don't mind rosewood.
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« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2007, 09:22:43 AM »
certinally ebony - i love the feel. seems to be an expensive choice though for manufacturers though - and most of my guitars are rosewood as a result.
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« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2007, 10:48:40 AM »
I haven't voted, as it depends on the guitar:

Teles and Superstrats - maple
Strats, Acoustics and everything else - rosewood

I've never played an ebony board - maybe I should sometime?
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« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2007, 10:50:40 AM »
^ You should. I see Ebony as middle of the road between Rosewood and Maple in terms of tone and feel. And aesthetically it rocks :)
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« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2007, 11:37:58 AM »
I prefer the feel of rosewood, but I really like the look of an all-maple neck on a Strat or Tele.  I wish rosewood-board Fenders came with colour-matched headstocks as standard.

Ebony's nice, but it's rarely an option on the guitars I like.

Tonally, I have no preference.  I like my guitars to sound different from each other.
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« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2007, 11:49:35 AM »
Almost all guitars I ever owned had rosewood. I can't stand the look of a maple fretboard. (Sorry)

My new Gretsch has an ebony fretboard and I love it. It looks awesome. Deep black color, very fine grain. It feels very nice, kinda like hard velvet. It also adds to the brightness of the guitar.
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« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2007, 11:53:50 AM »
Depends on the guitar.

Mine are both sorta superstrat style guitars (well, one is a Kelly) and the construction is the same (different bridges though) and I find it just depends - I love the maple on my PGM as it gives me loads of clarity and lightning fast attack whereas the rosewood on my Kelly has that cool, smooth sustain and warmer tone which sounds better for more melodic playing!

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« Reply #12 on: February 01, 2007, 12:51:55 PM »
Well, I think ebony looks nice. Although I've seen rosewood that looks like ebony. As for maple -  yes that looks nice too - in a different way, but I've not played anything with a maple fingerboard...
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« Reply #13 on: February 01, 2007, 01:01:41 PM »
Yeah, part of the problem with rosewood these days is it's hard to get a good piece. My friend's got a 3K PRS Artist and it's got the ugliest piece of discoloured rosewood.
 Tonally, visually and as a playing experience ebony is hard to beat.
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« Reply #14 on: February 01, 2007, 03:13:10 PM »
Quote from: hermz
^ You should. I see Ebony as middle of the road between Rosewood and Maple in terms of tone and feel. And aesthetically it rocks :)

Really?! I have had several necks with ebony fingerboards, and I find ebony to be extremely hard in both feel and tone.
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