Rosewood Neck with Maple Fretboard, Does it Exist?
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Re: Rosewood Neck with Maple Fretboard, Does it Exist?
I had to refine my search terms, found a thread about it on the telecaster page. Looks like there is a Fender strat with it:
"The Fender Select Stratocaster® HSS Exotic Maple Flame guitar certainly lives up to its name, with an atypical and highly distinctive wood figure in its flame maple top. No two instruments are identical, and the swirling, almost marbled quality of the flame wood figure is highlighted to even more beautiful effect by the guitar’s satin nitro-lacquer finish in Bing Cherry Burst. An exotic creation indeed, it launches the Fender Select series into 2014 with more style and performance than ever, including a striking “channel-bound” birds-eye maple fingerboard with a compound radius (9.5”-14”). This inlaid fingerboard design imparts an elegant appearance and an amazingly comfortable fretting-hand feel in which both edges are pleasingly rounded, with no side seam between neck and fingerboard.
Other premium features include a comfortably contoured neck heel on the alder body, rosewood neck with thick “modern C” profile and hand-rubbed oil finish, 21 medium jumbo frets and black pearloid inlays, single-coil Fender Select Stratocaster guitar neck and middle pickups, Twin-Head Vintage humbucking bridge pickup, five-way switching, three-ply parchment pickguard and aged white control knobs, Bi-Flex™ truss rod system, two-point synchronized tremolo bridge with bent steel saddles, deluxe staggered tuners, Micro-Tilt™ neck adjustment and Fender Select headstock medallion. Includes Fender Select tweed case, guitar strap, cable and polishing cloth."
I had to refine my search terms, found a thread about it on the telecaster page. Looks like there is a Fender strat with it:
"The Fender Select Stratocaster® HSS Exotic Maple Flame guitar certainly lives up to its name, with an atypical and highly distinctive wood figure in its flame maple top. No two instruments are identical, and the swirling, almost marbled quality of the flame wood figure is highlighted to even more beautiful effect by the guitar’s satin nitro-lacquer finish in Bing Cherry Burst. An exotic creation indeed, it launches the Fender Select series into 2014 with more style and performance than ever, including a striking “channel-bound” birds-eye maple fingerboard with a compound radius (9.5”-14”). This inlaid fingerboard design imparts an elegant appearance and an amazingly comfortable fretting-hand feel in which both edges are pleasingly rounded, with no side seam between neck and fingerboard.
Other premium features include a comfortably contoured neck heel on the alder body, rosewood neck with thick “modern C” profile and hand-rubbed oil finish, 21 medium jumbo frets and black pearloid inlays, single-coil Fender Select Stratocaster guitar neck and middle pickups, Twin-Head Vintage humbucking bridge pickup, five-way switching, three-ply parchment pickguard and aged white control knobs, Bi-Flex™ truss rod system, two-point synchronized tremolo bridge with bent steel saddles, deluxe staggered tuners, Micro-Tilt™ neck adjustment and Fender Select headstock medallion. Includes Fender Select tweed case, guitar strap, cable and polishing cloth."
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Red_Label
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Re: Rosewood Neck with Maple Fretboard, Does it Exist?
Weird. I don't care for the look. I prefer a maple/maple, maple/rosewood, maple/ebony, mahogany/rosewood, etc neck.
What I don't currently have, is a guitar with a ridiculously flamed-out maple neck and fretboard. I've always been a sucker for those, but have never had one.
I dig the hell out of these PRS Tremonti guitars in faded whale blue, with super flamey necks. YUMMAY!!!
Weird. I don't care for the look. I prefer a maple/maple, maple/rosewood, maple/ebony, mahogany/rosewood, etc neck.
What I don't currently have, is a guitar with a ridiculously flamed-out maple neck and fretboard. I've always been a sucker for those, but have never had one.
I dig the hell out of these PRS Tremonti guitars in faded whale blue, with super flamey necks. YUMMAY!!!
6stringerguy
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Re: Rosewood Neck with Maple Fretboard, Does it Exist?
Yes and if you have enough money there’s dozens of builders out there that’ll do it
Yes and if you have enough money there’s dozens of builders out there that’ll do it
6stringerguy
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Re: Rosewood Neck with Maple Fretboard, Does it Exist?
To be honest with the whole cites debacle rosewood is probably going to explode in sales before it is all out banned
To be honest with the whole cites debacle rosewood is probably going to explode in sales before it is all out banned
Re: Rosewood Neck with Maple Fretboard, Does it Exist?
Not exactly. The hassle of cites is making it so difficult and expensive. Everybody is looking for alternatives and many already have substituted RW with an alternative.
Not exactly. The hassle of cites is making it so difficult and expensive. Everybody is looking for alternatives and many already have substituted RW with an alternative.
6stringerguy
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Rosewood Neck with Maple Fretboard, Does it Exist?
I know people are using pao ferro/ Jatoba as an alternative to rosewood
purpleheart as an alternative to bubinga
I know people are using pao ferro/ Jatoba as an alternative to rosewood
purpleheart as an alternative to bubinga
Re: Rosewood Neck with Maple Fretboard, Does it Exist?
I don't really favor maple boards but I think that Fender that pretty cool. Obviously, some people aren't going to like it but it's just the reverse color scheme (compared to light neck, dark board) that makes it look strange.
I don't really favor maple boards but I think that Fender that pretty cool. Obviously, some people aren't going to like it but it's just the reverse color scheme (compared to light neck, dark board) that makes it look strange.
Re: Rosewood Neck with Maple Fretboard, Does it Exist?
And probably more and more Richlite coming as an alternative to any wood fretboards.
And probably more and more Richlite coming as an alternative to any wood fretboards.
Re: Rosewood Neck with Maple Fretboard, Does it Exist?
I've used Richlite boards and see no real difference, other than it is as smooth as glass. I think it is a good alternative, unless you have to have some kind of beautifully-grained rosewood. But these days, there are so many other species of woods that haven't even been explored.
I've used Richlite boards and see no real difference, other than it is as smooth as glass. I think it is a good alternative, unless you have to have some kind of beautifully-grained rosewood. But these days, there are so many other species of woods that haven't even been explored.
6stringerguy
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Re: Rosewood Neck with Maple Fretboard, Does it Exist?
Sure rosewood is nice but I’m much more of a ebony and maple guy
Sure rosewood is nice but I’m much more of a ebony and maple guy
Re: Rosewood Neck with Maple Fretboard, Does it Exist?
I'm open to Richlite. It wouldn't stop me from buying a guitar. The question mark has been re-frets. Someone must have a definitive answer on the issues (if there are any) with re-fretting on/in Richlite boards. I just haven't seen it yet.
I'm open to Richlite. It wouldn't stop me from buying a guitar. The question mark has been re-frets. Someone must have a definitive answer on the issues (if there are any) with re-fretting on/in Richlite boards. I just haven't seen it yet.