What if fretboard wood doesn't matter?

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Naw man, read the message I posted twice. It changes nothing in my world what another guitarist thinks.

The reason it's painful, is because there is a certain type of person out there, who are incredibly rigid when it comes to discussion. They enter a conversation with a certain idea, and will hold onto it until death. You can present them with expert opinion, scientific research, collective observations, and they will not budge because for some reason, they think that their belief holds more weight than all those other factors combined. No matter what you say to them, they will think you are full of it, and trying to push an agenda, or that you are misguided, or uninformed, just like what you think I am trying to do right now. These people will always think that the other person doesn't get it, that the world doesn't understand what they are saying, has biases or doesn't have facts, while completely ignoring that they themselves have biases and ignore the facts.

That's the pain behind talking with you. It's the irony of it all. From what I've read in this thread, it's become painfully obvious that regardless of what was going to be presented on these pages, your stance was not going to change. Leo Fender himself could crawl out of his grave, learn to use Youtube, and send you a private video explaining to you how it makes a difference, backed with scientific proof, and you would not accept it as credible. This is exactly why this is going to be my last comment on the topic. You are going to retort, stating something about me not getting it, or resorting to what ever strategy, so that you will end up feeling like you got the last word and I backed out. You won't get it, and that's fine. I won't answer back, but at least I'll have explained, as eloquently as I can using a language that is not my mother language, why those who are uninformed on the topic, should take this thread with a grain of salt, or a good laugh.

This.

(btw one thing I agree with BEACHBUM (among (hopefully) many things in math) is that this was pretty well-written for a non-native English speaker.)
 
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That's according to you. Just because you seem to have a lot of respect here, doesn't mean those who respect you must acquiesce to your logic. Sorry dude.
 
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Will a one peice maple neck sound different then an all maple neck with a slab fretboard?
 
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That's according to you. Just because you seem to have a lot of respect here, doesn't mean those who respect you must acquiesce to your logic. Sorry dude.
All I did was post something. I didn't direct it at anyone whatsoever. If you feel that it pertained to you, well then........that speaks volumes.
 
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All I did was post something. I didn't direct it at anyone whatsoever. If you feel that it pertained to you, well then........that speaks volumes.

I lol'd so hard when I saw he replied to that picture. It does speak volumes, does it?
 
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All I did was post something. I didn't direct it at anyone whatsoever. If you feel that it pertained to you, well then........that speaks volumes.


I thought the same thing too.
 
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Oh yes, all that science.. It's all just done to try and sell something, right?
 
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Just because you are tone deaf doesn't mean that you have to take it out on everybody else.

Many, many guitarist care what their instrument sounds like. Some guys can hear the difference between a 10' cord and a 50' cord.

I listen to the radio and study the guitars. If you listen closely, you can tell if the guitar is a Strat or a Gibson or a Tele or whatever. Even a Strat with a humbucker sounds night and day different from a Gibson with the same pickups.

Those of us that hear it don't need scientific proof. That's like asking for proof that an open E sounds different from a fretted E. Or asking for proof that a humbucker sounds different than a single coil pickup does. What if they sounded the same to me? Am I allowed to refute any thing that you say otherwise?
 
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Fretboard wood does make a slight difference but nothing drastic. I think that the affect that the fretboard has on tone depends more on what kind of neck it is on. For example, a rosewood board on a maple neck would not make as much of a differnce as it would on a mahogany neck. Maple is so hard that it pretty much takes over some of the tone from the rosewood where as the softer mahogany will be affected more by the rosewood. Much like an ebony board on a mahogany neck will be more noticeable than if it were on a maple neck.
 
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