Fender's New "Channel Bound" Fretboards

[ImmortalSix]

Pretty cool, check them out:

http://www.fender.com/series/fender...7DPF-VLQFJ-S31UDB-EILR8-YWIF-v1#channel-bound

 

[ratherdashing]

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That's pretty clever.

 

[King IzzO)))]

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You mean that gross abalone crap? Agreed.

 

[phil_104]

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Love it.

 

[LReese]

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Its nice - but its gonna make repair work a bit harder.

I actually a rosewood neck with a lighter fingerboard (Not necessarily maple) might look better.

 

[Funkfingers]

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Looks to me as if they are wasting a fair amount of maple just to save a small amount of rosewood.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

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Looks to me as if they are wasting a fair amount of maple just to save a small amount of rosewood.

It could be they're just trying to make something cool and aren't worried too much about efficiency. Sometimes I put premium gas in my HHR just for that extra half-second off the drive to work.

 

[LReese]

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Its just 1 huge a** inlay. probably trivial with CNC carving.

Bound fingerboards look so cool so I like. Like I say, repair work is not going to be so easy. At the very least touch up work. Gonna cost ya $$ down the road.

 

[crusty philtrum]

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They gonna use this technique for maple fretboards too ?

I'd assume a refret would cost about the same as what it costs to refret a bound LP neck with this construction, although at least there are no maple 'nubs' at the end of the frets. Removing the board would be more difficult than removing the bound board from a Gibson.

 

[TheLivingDead]

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That's pretty cool!

*see's that it's only on selects*

Welp... :/

 

[CTN]

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nice, I like that. it'll look totally seamless looking down from a playing position.

 

[J E C]

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Looks pretty cool. I don't see how it would be more comfortable though. Petty easy to do with a CNC

 

[BloodRose]

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yeah, saw this too. thought it was pretty cool looking. not sure if it will have any benefits other than asthetics. From looking at the demo vid, looks like the frets go to the edge of the board, so I dont think refrets will take any special care

 

[beaubrummels]

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As far as comfort, their theory is that you don't feel the edge between the neck and the laminate when your fingers wrap around.

 

[Powdered Toast Man]

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Neat.

 

[DankStar]

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None of my guitars are uncomfortable, but looks like a neat idea nonetheless.

I wonder if under extreme conditions the wood would want to pop out of its bathtub. (how wrong does that sound, lol)

 

[crusty philtrum]

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From looking at the demo vid, looks like the frets go to the edge of the board, so I dont think refrets will take any special care

From what I can see, the top of the frets does indeed go to the edges of the neck, but looking at the graphic in the opening post, it appears that the fret tang does not (couldn't see the side of the neck in the demo vid). In other words, the tangs have to be undercut before being installed, just like when fretting or refretting a bound neck .... so a more complex task than refretting a traditional unbound Fender type neck.

 

[crusty philtrum]

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As far as comfort, their theory is that you don't feel the edge between the neck and the laminate when your fingers wrap around.

I've owned and played quite a lot of guitars over the years, and never have i been able to feel the join between the neck and fretboard, so i don't see that as being a new, special selling-point.

 

[Johnny the Kid]

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I don't normall like rosewood, but a maple neck with a channel bound rosewood board looks pretty baddass.

 

[BrianS.]

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Could this be a way to use laminated fretboards without having to tell customers? Just a cynical thought that popped into my head.