Rosewood vs Maple fretboard

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Re: Rosewood vs Maple fretboard

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JHorner wrote:Rosewood gives undertones of raisins and dark chocolate, while Maple hints at notes of gooseberry and wild rose hips.
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I always go for rosewood. But maple is preferred if I would get a strat.

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Baked maple is the best for colour, feel and tone, just ask Gibson.
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Re: Rosewood vs Maple fretboard

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Conway wrote:I think maple on single coils gives more snap and bite, which is a good thing. On humbuckers, ebony is nice.
+100000, ebony on hb are solid for me.

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Re: Rosewood vs Maple fretboard

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Rosewood for darker colored bodies and maple for butterscotch, white, yellow, natural colored bodies. hehe

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imarco wrote:maple for butterscotch, white, yellow, natural colored bodies. hehe
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imarco wrote:Rosewood for darker colored bodies and maple for butterscotch, white, yellow, natural colored bodies. hehe
Maple and Butterscotch........mmmmmmmm.
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For some reason all my guitars either have ebony or rosewood fretboards. I've had a few maple ones in the past, they've just never stayed long.

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Definitely prefer Maple for electric, but preferred rose wood for bass back when I used to play more bass.

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I can't tell the difference. Anything but richlite.

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I don't mind maple, provided it is not covered in goopy gloss varnish. The PRS and Suhr maple necks I like a lot. But I usually prefer some kind of rosewood / ebony. Cocobolo is nice too!

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Played a Parker once.
Carbon whatever neck and stainless frets.
That was fucking cool.

Rosewood seems to work wherever it is.
Maple is hit and miss for me.
Ebony sometimes feels funny.
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olegmcnoleg wrote:I don't mind maple, provided it is not covered in goopy gloss varnish. The PRS and Suhr maple necks I like a lot. But I usually prefer some kind of rosewood / ebony. Cocobolo is nice too!
Mmmm, PRS does some magnificent stuff with Cocobolo, doesn't it?! :D
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Conway wrote:
olegmcnoleg wrote:I don't mind maple, provided it is not covered in goopy gloss varnish. The PRS and Suhr maple necks I like a lot. But I usually prefer some kind of rosewood / ebony. Cocobolo is nice too!
Mmmm, PRS does some magnificent stuff with Cocobolo, doesn't it?! :D
I haven't looked for ages but there was (still is?) a thread for private stock porn thread on the PRS forum. Cocobolo seemed popular there, very flashy.

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Re: Rosewood vs Maple fretboard

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codedog wrote:
Conway wrote:
olegmcnoleg wrote:I don't mind maple, provided it is not covered in goopy gloss varnish. The PRS and Suhr maple necks I like a lot. But I usually prefer some kind of rosewood / ebony. Cocobolo is nice too!
Mmmm, PRS does some magnificent stuff with Cocobolo, doesn't it?! :D
I haven't looked for ages but there was (still is?) a thread for private stock porn thread on the PRS forum. Cocobolo seemed popular there, very flashy.
yes, super flashy, you'd not catch me dead with that kind of OTT finish on my guitars.









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