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Maple vs Ebony vs Rosewood Fretboards
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Originally posted by Newc View PostIt's actually more in the fret size than the board material. While a loose-grained wood like rosewood will absorb more of the acoustic tone and harder woods like maple and ebony will reflect it back more, in the end it doesn't really transfer to the amp, especially with distortion.
If you are playing with Dunlop 6100 frets, or scalloping for that matter you never will be touching the board anyway.Tone is like Art: Your opinion is valid. Listen, learn, have fun, draw your own conclusions.
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I think maple has more of a snap than the other woods when the strings bounce off of it, fret size or not. There is a difference you can hear and feel. I bet in a Pepsi challenge I could pick out Maple over the other woods just by the sound."Hard work is for people short on talent." -George Carlin
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Rosewood, for me. It's just the way I grew up, I guess. Maple is too "brittle", or sharp for my taste, and ebony is like an EMG pickup, kind of nuetral. I have trouble defining it, but I like the tightest grained rosewoods I can find. The darker, the better. I like the warmth of the tone, on a mahogany body, and maple neck.
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another Maple fan here . 3 of my 4 guitars have maple boards.
the other is ebony (SL2H) and surprisingly enough that is my favorite
6 string guitar (my 7's both have maple boards) but it's not the ebony
board that makes it my favorite it's just the total package.If this is our perdition, will you walk with me?
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I'm kind of a Jackson ebony snob, but it seems like every time I play an inexpensive maple or rosewood board, I'm like "oh shit that's fuggin good!". I think Jackson makes waaaaaay too many ebony boards IMHO._________________________________________________
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Originally posted by Cygnus X1 View PostRosewood, for me. It's just the way I grew up, I guess. Maple is too "brittle", or sharp for my taste, and ebony is like an EMG pickup, kind of nuetral. I have trouble defining it, but I like the tightest grained rosewoods I can find. The darker, the better. I like the warmth of the tone, on a mahogany body, and maple neck."Hard work is for people short on talent." -George Carlin
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Originally posted by minh80 View PostBiggest reason why I like Ebony over the others is the feel of it. It's much smoother than the others. To me, it's kinda hard to distinquish the tonal differences as I've owned different bodies of different woods of different guitars."Hard work is for people short on talent." -George Carlin
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