Looking for Rosewood fingerboard

[Wallyphonic]

Does anybody make new rosewood fingerboards? Where can I buy one? Does anybody have one they would like to sell? My Epiphone B5 needs a new board and I'd kind of like to keep it "original". I always liked the stock rosewood board but it's so thin that the neck is starting to warp. I know Ebony is "better" but I would like to at least try to find a nice rosewood one.

[Gearhead43]

The only commercially available non-ebony boards I know of are the Engelhardt boards, which are made of jatoba (ie "Brazilian cherry").

They are very nice looking, look alot like Rosewood, and are proving to be a long lasting, inexpensive material for fingerboards.

The wood can be fairly light colored when new, but turns a deeper dark red over time.

Might want to see how the dimensions compare to your stock board.

Now I'll let everyone else here talk you into an ebony board.

[vejesse]

International Violin listed rosewood boards in the previous catalog. Now they list something called 'exotic wood'.

[Wallyphonic]

Thanks for the replies. I'm guessing that the exotic wood fingerboards on the international violin site are the same ones from engelhardt. They look kind of ok on the engelhardt site, but the photo on gollihur's site looks really light. I guess I'd have to see one in person.

Is Rosewood now more rare than Ebony?

[vejesse]

Those Kay/Engelhardt fingerboards are thin and they're too flat at the bridge end. If you're going to install a new board no sense putting one of those on. Spend a few more bucks and do it right.