I've been looking at some lower range Gibsons, eg Faded, Standard etc and it strikes me that a lot of the rosewood fretboards are bone dry with an almost white grain in some areas. Some seem dyed and after you play them your fingers are black. They're all a bit of a mess. What gives?
Fender meanwhile with their Pau Ferro, which I dislike due to how light brown and streaky they are, means I wouldn't buy any Fender with one, unless it was an exception ie dark and even, but I haven't see one yet.
Note, I am fussy about my fretboards
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The options for factories are to use the wood people expect but accept some is going to be lower quality. or use alternatives and know the market will object
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Bravo to Fender & exactly what i' d expect from Gibson.
So, unless this listing was inaccurate (or the fretboard is a replacement), this suggests Fender were using some Pau Ferro in the 'Golden Era'. Anyone know if this is correct?
You jest sir, you jest......Constable take him away
I don't mind a fretboard being dry as you can put some oil on it and the oil from your fingers should lubricate it whilst you settle it in, would rather have a dry fretboard than a rough one
I am getting fed-up with all these Millennial Snowflaker oppositions to everything - now they want Friends pulled from Netflix FFS...
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/friends-netflix-sexist-racist-transphobic-problematic-millenials-watch-a8154626.html
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The whole species name thing is a bit of a minefield because the names historically used for lumber don't correlate with individual species. Rosewood covers a lot of species of tree grown on at least three different continents.The pale, reddish boards you see on Rickenbackers (Bubinga) is almost always always officially described as rosewood but looks very different to Fender/Gibson rosewood.
We're conditioned to like a dark rosewood board by now, but I wouldn't mind a lighter wood as long as it has some character. Give me a slab of streaky Pau Ferro over baked maple or richlite any day.
I used it on my first build about 16 years ago. At that point it was £1 less per fretboard than rosewood and £3 less than ebony.
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I agree with you about all the Guardianista, rad-fem, PC nonsense that is rammed down everyone's throats at every turn, but there are some real issues with illegal forestry. To my mind a failure to make a proper distinction between such issue is the greatest failing of the left these days - they go all over the place when someone finds something uncouth Trump said decades ago, but the then barely raise a whimper as his policies accelerate the move towards irreversible climate change. Talk about lacking a sense of perspective!
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