Neck Woods

[The New Guy]

Just curious, why is it that you dont see many mahagany necks with maple fingerboards? bad tone, woods won't adhere well? or maybe they're out there but I haven't seen them....what do you think the tonal charactoristics would be?

 

[aleclee]

Re: Neck Woods

I think that maple fretboards are largely an artifact of the one-piece maple necks on Fenders. It was easier to manufacture since they didnt' have to laminate a fretboard onto the neck (even though the fretboard itself then needed to have finish applied). Conversely, on a mahogany neck, a maple fretboard means more work since finishing/buffing the fretboard takes more time than masking the edges of the fretboard. If you dig the tone of a maple board, you'd probably just go for an all maple neck, whether a slab or separate fretboard is used.

I'd expect the tone to be somewhere between that of a rosewood board and an ebony board, tending towards that of ebony.

 

[Zerberus]

Re: Neck Woods

I´ve seen Mahogany necks with maple boards, they´re just not such a common choice as most players that choose mahogany are looking for a warmer tone, and maple´s brightness counteracts that Idea (Maple is the brightest of fretboard woods, then Ebony, then Pao Ferro, then Rosewood).

Tonal Characteristics would be similar to Ebony, but Snappier and "colder". I don´t think I´d like it too much personally

 

[WITH FULL DISTORTION]

Re: Neck Woods

Hej guys.. i´ll catch a ride on this TOPIC and ask something ...
i´m planning a 7 string Guitar on Warmoth, but in a very distant future.
but i already started my researchs... here´s the question.
i´m planing a Maple Body, with Mahogany Cap, ROSEWOOD NECK and Ebony fretboard.
what do you think of my Idea of a neck made of rosewood?
how that will sound ?
J.P

 

[WITH FULL DISTORTION]

Re: Neck Woods

Bump

 

[big_black]

Re: Neck Woods

Haven't played a rosewood neck, but I have heard favorable things about them. Maple body with mahogany cap? :crazy: You sure like those maple bodies, huh?

 

[big_black]

Re: Neck Woods

It seems like the maple would overpower the mahogany. Maple seems to be pretty pronounced, it only takes 1/4" slab to brighten a Les Paul. How 'bout rosewood body/maple cap, rosewood/ebony neck? That would be an interesting combo.

 

[WITH FULL DISTORTION]

Re: Neck Woods

YES
an interesting combo and insane too
AHAHAHAHAHAH LIKED THE IDEA.
Q

 

[Pandemonium]

Re: Neck Woods

what do you think of my Idea of a neck made of rosewood?

That's gonna be one neck heavy guitar.