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Maple is the most sustainable fretboard and neck choice, ash and alder are fairly sustainable too. fender will always be able to offer authentically vintage woods even without rosewood.
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I think Baked Maple would be a great alternative...
I had it once on a Gibson and it was really nice.. The one I had looked very similar to Rosewood but felt smoother too the touch.....
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I heard Terry Morgan has stockpiled a whole shed worth of Rosewood so he can build exact copies of Mexican Strats and Teles with rosewood boards - right down to the very last little detail. Tis True. Heard it on TGP.
Has this stopped all the cheap Chinese shit coming over now, chibsons could actually go up in value
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I hate to think how much rosewood is and was wasted on really crap guitars and the quantitys used over the years
It's very sad, especially for small scale builders
I hope I'm long gone before there is no more good wood available to build with
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Any other wood that will do for now may not last long. I think it makes more sense to look to sustainable woods and other materials and just get used to it. Certainly for the factories.
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On volume sales like Mex models, with lower profit margins, plus the issue of obtaining CITES for each shipment, with a separate request required for export and import (2 sets of paperwork for Fender), then you can see some logic for them - I can see baked maple been used on more 'budget based models' and the guitar industry quickly accepting this on products in teh volume end of the market
Hasn't there been a ban or reduction in what was Ceylon ebony for a while - And talk about Taylor has purchased a large supply of Ebony and effectively cornered the market - Hence Gibson struggling to obtain Ebony for even top of the range models like LP Custom Historic models
Rocker said: There has been some talk of guitars been given a low usage exemption from cites but not for the guitar Industry to decide - so will see but I would not count on it
There has to be a place for responsibly sourced planation grown wood. If CITES just kill all demand then no one will grow plantations and the situation will get worse.
If CITES (or the government bureaucracies implementing it) don't come up with something more sensible then I wouldn't be surprised to see countries like India raising a stink and possibly even withdrawing.
DISCLAIMER: Yesterday, we received information from Fender that they would not be using Rosewood as an option on future models. However, this morning, it has been clarified that this will only be the case on selected models, not the entire range. More updates to follow.