what kind of fretboard do you prefer?

what kind of fretboard do you prefer?

  • maple

    Votes: 25 26.3%
  • rosewood

    Votes: 42 44.2%
  • ebony

    Votes: 26 27.4%
  • pau ferro

    Votes: 2 2.1%

  • Total voters
    95
Rosewood definitely. Shame they can't get the good stuff anymore, it'd be nice to have some darker fretboards again.
 
Love the feel and look of ebony, but also love the feel and look of rosewood! But i voted for ebony cos i thought less people wouldhave ;)
 
Ebony all the way. Nice and smooth, looks much more beautiful than rosewood IMO. I do have some rosewood guitars and my strat is maple(which is perfect for a strat), but ebony is schweet...

Mike
 
I always thought Pau Ferro looked and sounded great. Plus the fact that it isn't on a lot of guitars raises my interest as well ;)
 
On Gibsons and Hamers: Rosewood all the way. Brazilian sounds richer than Indian, but Indian is all you'll get these days.

On Fenders: I slightly favor the "pop" and "faster tonal response" of maple...but rosewood sounds richer and fatter and I like it too.

The frets make a diff too!

Medium jumbos on a Fender neck add mass and weight to a neck and make it sound fatter and "better"....at least to me.

Lew
 
I like rosewood best for electrics.

Sometimes, Ebony for acoustics and basses.

I never really bond with maple necked guitars, so I voted Rosewood. Eventually, when I pick up a Tele, I'll get that one
in maple, since I do want another maple neck. Right now,
none of my guitars have a maple fretboard.
 
i like tone of all of em (never heard of pau ferro though), but im gonna say maple cause it looks really cool and is rarer, at least for non-fenders.
 
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