Fender to cease using Rosewood

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Fender to cease using Rosewood

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Don't know if this is true, but according to this article, Fender have decided to stop making guitars with rosewood fretboards

https://www.reidys.com/blog/rosewood-no ... ites-1901/
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whoops - just saw that JB mentioned it in an earlier thread.
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Re: Fender to cease using Rosewood

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Lots of companies now only using it domestically or for the higher end stuff that's worth the paperwork.

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Let them eat cake I guess, bring on ebony and pau ferro haha.
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Re: Fender to cease using Rosewood

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Thats it, tone is now officially over. You can't have tone without Rosewood, everybody knows that.

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Re: Fender to cease using Rosewood

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Never fear, Line 6 are bringing out a maple necked Variax that models a rosewood fretboard.



However, being Line 6, it will sound crap.
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if maple is ever put on the endangered list then some one needs to die ..... a slow painful death
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willow13 wrote:if maple is ever put on the endangered list then some one needs to die ..... a slow painful death
I've already heard talk of this...
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AiRdAd wrote:Don't know if this is true, but according to this article, Fender have decided to stop making guitars with rosewood fretboards

https://www.reidys.com/blog/rosewood-no ... ites-1901/
Not certain how legit this is. A quick google finds no other source than this article.....written by a retailer and containing links to buy their rosewood-board Fenders.

Need further sources before believing this one...
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Re: Fender to cease using Rosewood

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handsoffmatt wrote:
AiRdAd wrote:Don't know if this is true, but according to this article, Fender have decided to stop making guitars with rosewood fretboards

https://www.reidys.com/blog/rosewood-no ... ites-1901/
Not certain how legit this is. A quick google finds no other source than this article.....written by a retailer and containing links to buy their rosewood-board Fenders.

Need further sources before believing this one...
That's kind of what I thought too. They started the article off saying that Fender has announced it to the 'trade.' Which kind of indicates that it hasn't been released to the public yet. But even if they did release it to the trade, surely we'd have heard it from other sources within the 'trade.'
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handsoffmatt wrote:
willow13 wrote:if maple is ever put on the endangered list then some one needs to die ..... a slow painful death
I've already heard talk of this...
i'll get my gun ready
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Bring on the hemp guitars.
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jeremyb wrote:Bring on the hemp guitars.
yeah nita strauss will have to grow her armpit hair shortly
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Re: Fender to cease using Rosewood

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There's a lot of this sort of web rumouring going around at the moment. Only a small portion of it is true...for now... at some stage it will simply not be possible to get endangered wood on new guitars. Thankfully.
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Re: Fender to cease using Rosewood

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A little out of place in this but anybody here recently purchased a rosewood neck from Stratosphere and had any issues with it getting in the country? Still searching for maple neck with rosewood board, strat style headstock for my tele and can only find them there. Cant afford warmoth.

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