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Originally Posted by cosmic gumbo
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09-19-2019 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by QAman
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It's funny to me...forever everyone said "I only want the blackest ebony". Then they ran out of black ebony and now they come up with something that looks exactly like ebony, is environmentally superior in every way and now everyone is "ok cool so I really like white stripes in ebony".
Personally I think black black fingerboards look cool. It's cool they invented this stuff.
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Thomann in Germany had several L5 CES guitars a little while back with rosewood boards, and even, I think, a Wes. I think they may all be sold now. Never saw a richlite one.
Like QAman, I had a 275 with richlite board which I had no problem with but sold it for the same reason he did - neck too small.
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Times and tastes change.
I distinctly remember when any Fender guitar made after the sale to CBS was automatically grounds for a BIG discount. In particular, nobody wanted Stratocasters with the big "paddle heads." Folks were actually sawing these headstocks down to pre-CBS dimensions--particularly if you had a transitional example from '65 with an "L" prefix serial number. I saw a bunch of those with cut-down headstocks and reapplied decals, to make them look like the earliest '65 examples. (Big pain to go through, given that they were all CBS instruments, as near as I could tell.)
NOW, plenty of people are happy to play a paddle head because Jimi Hendrix and others did. (Not to mention the fact that many of the guitars made from '65-'68 feature pickups from '65 and frankly sound and play marvelously.)
I suspect that with time people are going to really warm up to the Mr. J-era archtops and be glad that they exist.
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I think streaky ebony looks cool.
I also had a student with a richlite-boarded Martin. You'd never know it wasn't ebony, except for looking REAAAALY close and noticing there's no grain at all.
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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