Finger board wood and relief

[Zakmusic]

Do you guys think a rosewood finger board is easier to bend during humid weather than maple?

Humidity here is often around 90% this time of the year. If maple is more resistant to humidity change i might favor it in future purchase

[johndough247]

Isn't the wood that makes up the rest of the neck more influential in this regard than the fingerboard wood?

[96tbird]

? Just buy and use what you like be it maple or whatever. Tweak when needed. No need to concern yourself any further.

[mystic38]

If you are in the Islands, the change in humidity over the course of the year is not that great..it may be 90% now but that is likely outside no?.... but even in the midst of the dry season its not dry... 40-50% mebbe?..so you may only see a swing in humidity of 40%, and swing in temperature of only 10F

here in the sunny NE continental USA humidity indoors ranges from 10% in winter to 70% in summer, and indoor temps will vary by 40F

and rosewood is not a problem here .. hope this helps.

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Originally Posted by Zakmusic

Do you guys think a rosewood finger board is easier to bend during humid weather than maple?

Humidity here is often around 90% this time of the year. If maple is more resistant to humidity change i might favor it in future purchase

[Turnaround]

Maple is actually more reactive to moisture changes than rosewood. Typically a hard maple will shrink tangentially about 8% when drying out where a rosewood will shrink 5%. Radially it will be about 4% against 2.5% respectively. These measurements are going from green wood to oven dry, but the reaction to changes in RH is proportionally similar.

[steve_rolfeca]

It's the combination of neck and fingerboard wood that matters most.

It's fairly well-known that a maple neck with an ebony fingerboard can be a problem, because ebony gives off moisture much more slowly than maple. It's the very dense pore structure, plus the amount of resins in the ebony. This is one of the reasons that a thick-film finish like nitro or poly is preferred over oil in that situation.

This is not the case with rosewood over maple, because rosewood absorbs and dries out much faster than ebony, as local humidity conditions change.