Maple vs Rosewood fretboard

[Obsessive Compulsive]

Re: Maple vs Rosewood fretboard

^ Wrong. But considering the numerous times you have everything out-of-whack with your posts all this time, I am not surprised...he..he.

 

[BriGuy1968]

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Can we just close this now before it turns into 5+ pages of various monkeys flinging poo at each other?

What?!?

That’d NEVER happen!








Oh, wait... maybe it just did.





Never mind...

 

[Adieu]

Re: Maple vs Rosewood fretboard

^ Wrong. But considering the numerous times you have everything out-of-whack with your posts all this time, I am not surprised...he..he.

Just look it up

Btw, hint: "board foot" is NOT "a foot of plank"... it's a SQUARE FOOT of 1" board.

= 1/12 cubic feet. (That's A LOT of fretboards)

Fretboard dimensions:
~18" × ~2" × ~3/16" = 1.5' × 1/6' × 1/64' = 1/256 cf

So uhm yeah... about TWENTY fretboards possible per board foot.

Less loss, more from alternating direction, more efficiency from using bigger actual lumber...

Still gonna be at least 15 realistic fretboards per board foot in industrial manufacture. Maybe more. Maybe a LOT more if they use binding all around and filler where needed on the unexposed bottom, necessitating only ONE pretty surface per board (the top fret-side)


So...YUP EIGHT BUCKS or so.



PS yes I'm aware that a single board foot isn't long enough to manufacture ANY onepiece fretboards, so building one for a home tinkerer will, indeed, cost a bundle unless they pay premium for precut thin, narrow, long blanks. Not so for a bulk buyer of multiple long pieces, though. For volume builders the math holds.

 

[Open lane]

Re: Maple vs Rosewood fretboard

Oh cool i don't think this topic has been done.

Come to think about it, this does feel a bit like deja vu!

 

[Jacew]

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Rosewoods do need occasional upkeep, as in oiling. Maple doesn't.

I don't think so. I've never oiled mine and it's in perfect condition.

Then again in winter our house has around 40 % air humidity and that's as dry as it gets in Finland...

 

[jeremy]

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if its try, you probably should oil any open pored, unfinished wood. maple usually has a finish. rickenbacker puts a finish on their rw boards, and i love the look.

ebony isnt much more costly or harder to work with than maple or rosewood. its not like its blackwood that blunts tools

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

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Maple is a little brighter sounding.


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[NegativeEase]

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Realistically it's more a matter of looks than tone.

This is true -OP, I wouldn't worry too much about missing the boat by picking one over the other -the subtle snappy attack of maple can be made with a Rosewood neck with an EQ pedal by boosting 3.2k or even some clean clean boosts/overdrives -and honestly the difference probably matter mostly in a recording session where pronouncing certain kinds of inherit voices in a mix may be critical to the song and having more information to work with within a certain frequency band is an advantage.

Also, if your in love with a certain "look' of a guitar -you will play it more -lots more if it gives you a chub every time you look at it from across the room -and playing more is ultimately is most important IMO.

 

[Boogie Bill]

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For me they are interchangeable. I have many G&L Legacy bodies (strats), with maple, ebony and rosewood boards, including two S-500s (mpl/rw), two Comanches (mpl/rw), four Legacy Specials (mpl/ebony) and eleven Legacys (mpl/rw).

Now, I do hear a difference between ash and alder, but to me the difference between fretboard material is less significant. Tonally, I just don't have a strong preference for one over another. Nor is "feel" a major factor.

But do subscribe to being somewhat picky about looks, and with some finish colors, I do have preferences. Maple is also easier for me to use in a dark club with inadequate stage lighting...which is one reason why I bought some portable lighting of my own.

I often talk about the advantages of the Number One-A guitar. My Number One is any one of my Legacys, and Number One-A is also a Legacy, without regard to fretboard. Some players will prefer their back-up guitar to be IDENTICAL, I'm not that picky.

Bill

 

[mojosman]

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I feel like the overall shape and size of the neck is a bigger factor to me than the fret board material. I like a bigger neck with some heft to it. I like the look of the rosewood on most Strats over Maple, but on Teles I think Maple just looks right with most colors of bodies. That said, if I play one and I like the shape and feel of the neck, I would not care less which type of fretboard was on it.

 

[ehdwuld]

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I find it easier to roll the edges of a rosewood or ebony board than a finished maple neck

 

[Mincer]

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When they are scalloped, it doesn't matter, of course.

 

[LLL]

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Who flung poo?

(not seeing anything - and yeah had to say it cuz it's funny)

 

[LLL]

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The oils in rosewood don't jive with my fingers. That being said, I still dig rosewood.

But mainly maple & ebony for moi.

 

[metalchurch79]

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My Mom prefers ebony

 

[Francois]

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Actually I like both rosewood and maple fretbroads... But I have many guitars with a rosewood fb and only two with a maple one so the rosewood became to me like a kind of standard.

Yes the maple ones feel different and sort of snapper.

I have only one with ebony. This one is a very dark guitar but I just cannot say whether the ebony fretboard has something to do with it.

I just got a 100% maple guitar mostly by curiosity and it is so snappy !