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I've never been able to get used to a maple board. Must be the finish, but I've never tried any other finished wood fretboard (like on a Rickenbacker).
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06-16-2011 06:53 PM
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I use "fast fret" works just fine and cleans the strings and fret board.
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Usually I prefer ebony, but if the rosewood is ultra high end then I prefer rosewood. Unfortunately, I've only ever seen one guitar like this. Fortunately, I own it.
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Originally Posted by jazzbow
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Originally Posted by hot ford coupe
OK. It's a natural secretion of wool bearing animals. It's a type of wax. I wouldn't use it.
Stick to lemon oil.
Other oils are sometimes used. AVOID oils that harden like linseed and tung oil.
Stick to lemon oil. Orange oil works too, but costs more.
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I think I've also heard that lemon oil is what you're supposed to use. I'm going to check the lanolin situation. I'll be back from Google to report.
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Originally Posted by edspyhill01
The difference comes in its hardness. I guess it holds frets better and thus maintains intonation a hair better than rosewood.
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I haven't found the info on lanolin yet but I'm stil researching. I know I was advised not to use it on vintage instruments but for recently made instruments I don't know. I'm not trying to prove I'm right, I just want to prevent someone from irreparably damaging a prized instrument. If I can save someone that kind of grief, I'll be happy as a clam.
By the way, Ebony is my choice. It just feels good to me.
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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Originally Posted by jzucker
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yep ebony is always classy looking....
and been seeing some boutique jazz guitars with different woods ....
****but with fenders tele's and strats i prefer maple ...and mostly cos i love the way they visibly age with with time........
and even played parker fly's and back in 90's owned a steinberger with carbon graphite fretboard
and enjoyed em all
****yet like mentioned above mostly i could not tell blindfolded what fretboard wood was on the neck i was playing????? nor hear it in any recording ....
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Originally Posted by Keira Witherkay
funny story my old luthier did work for all the big names at one point or another. Clapton brought his famous Blakie strat to my luthier for a refret. My guy's standard mode of operation is to clean up the fretboard of guitars he refret's so he cleaned Blackie up. When Clapton comes to get Blackie he freaks no more dark spots on the neck. Clapton plays Blackie likes the fret job and hands him back the guitar.... Now get my black marks back on the neck, I worked hard for them. So my guy had to relic the dark spots back onto Blackie.
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I don't know about other guitars, lacking comparisons, but I could always hear the difference between my maple and rosewood Fenders. IMO, the rosewood Stratocasters and Telecasters sound better. The maple looks great, though.
on my archtops I enjoy ebony.
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I think ebony makes a big difference in tone and I don't care for it. I much prefer rosewood.
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Originally Posted by edspyhill01
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i think if you A/B two guitars with same amp setting and with identical pickups but one with maple neck and one with rosewood you would hear a difference..... But if you hear just one in the mix i doubt anyone could tell the tonal difference.. or them apart
Last edited by Keira Witherkay; 09-21-2014 at 12:48 AM.
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Originally Posted by docbop
thats so funny cos a while back i had a 80's strat with a maple board that was looking gorgeously worn with ingrained dirt n the worn sections ....and just as the story above took it in for just a minor repair not even a fret job and the repair guy thought he was doing me a favour by cleaning it up to almost new ....let me add without me asking him to and he sounded all excited and returned the guitar saying "now it looks like new" and i swear i hit the roof....and came just short of smacking him....... i was furious...... and have never given him more business ...and soon after sold the strat which lost it's appeal to me ..............so yes some of us love the mojo of old played in feeling and looking instruments and the fretboard is the main area of wear ........ and i guess others like my ex repair guy likes them all looking brand new.... these days when i send a guitar in i stipulate just do the work and don't even clean it.... i will do that
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You wanted to smack dude for cleaning your guitar, really?
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James Jamerson - "the dirt keeps the funk"
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Who would've thought. There is obviously a serious market for grime.
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Originally Posted by AlainJazz
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Originally Posted by Broyale
Last edited by Jim Soloway; 09-21-2014 at 01:52 PM.
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Originally Posted by Keira Witherkay
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Originally Posted by Broyale
so it wasn't just a clean as i a wipe down for dust a big difference between grime and long time build up of finger stains on a maple board... i love a true "road worn " instrument ...would never fake it tho but love true age on an instrument ..especially maple fingerboards
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No preference on wood. If I play maple, rosewood, ebony and I like it, it goes home with me.
I just wish the style for HUGE markers would go away... then maybe I would have a preference :-0
Actually, I have two guitars without markers... a Cort Triggs which has rosewood, and a Pat Martino with Ebony and I find myself playing these a lot, so maybe I'll never have a preference?
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