How come you never see...

[FretFire]

...a maple neck with mother of pearl inlays? Does the pearl blend in to the maple too much?

 

[El Dorado]

Re: How come you never see...

...a maple neck with mother of pearl inlays? Does the pearl blend in to the maple too much?

I guess that's the reason. Zakk Wylde's camo bullseye has a maple fretboard with pearl inlays. I think it looks pretty cool.

 

[Hellion]

Re: How come you never see...

They do blend in pretty much, but they have been made. I've got a 1978 3-hole neck J-bass that has a maple neck with MOP position markers as opposed to the dots.

 

[Kac]

Re: How come you never see...

I believe the lite ash stratocasters have maple fretbaords with pearl inlays, and I think it looks beautiful.
Rock On :smoker:

 

[FretFire]

Re: How come you never see...

I believe the lite ash stratocasters have maple fretbaords with pearl inlays, and I think it looks beautiful.
Rock On :smoker:

The lite ash strats have abalone inlays.

 

[Jeffrec]

Re: How come you never see...

That would be my guess. They could put MoP inlays in with a dark border to help it stand out more.

Jeff

 

[XSSIVE]

Re: How come you never see...

my friend has an odd fender jazz bass with a clear finished body to show the woodgrain and all maple neck with MOP block inlays. it's very odd to see block in lays on a fender and the MOP on maple looks well kinda albino hahaha not bad just odd and a bit washed out looking i guess you could say.

-Mike

 

[Bludave]

Re: How come you never see...

I would rather see Pualo Abalone. I am not sure I spelled it right, but this is a bright greenish/purple kind of Abalone. On a Maple FB this would look awsome. This is the type of Abalone that many of the inlay artist use. Highly colorful and very expensive.

 

[FretFire]

Re: How come you never see...

Yeah, after seeing a few pics of maple/MOP, I decided against it. Maple/paua abalone it is .