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04-13-2005, 08:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: UK | | | That strange huh ? |
04-13-2005, 08:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: self banned from talkbass.... | | | The neck is maple [with walnut pinstripes] and the wings look like walnut, but the picts need to be a bit brighter. The FB is most likely rosewood. |
04-13-2005, 10:23 PM
| | | | I'll agree on the maple, but the pinstripes look to be either padauk or bloodwood. I believe the fretboard is Padauk...the orange-rust color and open pores are a give-away....It is about the only photo that shows enough detail to make a judgement from. The wings look more like Cocobolo than walnut, but GEEZ!!! that would weigh a ton!...Walnut that old would be much lighter in coloration(Walnut is one of the few woods that lightens as it ages)....The wings do show a slightly orangish cast and a tight dense grain pattern.....I say Coco or another type of Rosewood for the wings.....Even the headstock veneer looks to be a rosewood of some type....I need better photos to make a definative judgement.....What say you? |
04-14-2005, 08:58 AM
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Owner: FBB Bass Works | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Maryland | | | The pictures are dark and do not show enough detail of the body wood. There's a number of woods it might be, but the red tinge does indicate that it might be padauk. I seriously doubt that Ibanez would use solid cocobolo or any rosewood for the wings. Can you tell if it's laminated?
The stringers in the neck are probably padauk as well. Padauk is relatively inexpensive and it is a wood Ibanez has come back to. It would be surprising if they used padauk as a fingerboard, but the open pores do suggest it is possible. Again, none of those pictures show enough detail & contrast to be conclusive.
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04-14-2005, 11:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: UK | | | Sorry guys - i'm no David Bailey with a camera, but i shall endeavour to take some better pics - a lot of them have been resized to squash the file size a bit, but i will re-take them, and post back !
Thanks for the info so far - dont desert me ! I'll back
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04-14-2005, 12:10 PM
|  | .............. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Stockton, Ca | | | "Padauk!" says the ignoramous...(me)
"Paduak!" says the ignoramous...(alternative spelling) |
04-14-2005, 12:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: UK | | | This may be a bit useful - its amazingly light.
3.5kg - 7.7 Lbs. I guess the minimal headstock, thin neck and small body contribute.
Its like Balsawood compared to my 70's Ibanez Jazz |
04-14-2005, 06:53 PM
| | | | Much better photos! I'm stickin' to Padauk on the fingerboard. and Maple on the neck with Padauk or possibly Mahogany accent stripes......The old pics disguised the detail in the wood....Now, given a good look at the grain detail and lightweight of the bass, I'm thinkin' possibly a dyed Ash, but I'm not totally sold on it. I don't have any Ash around the shop and I haven't worked with it for a long time, so I'm only guessing on this one!....The wood kinda looks like the body of an old '50s Strat. |
04-14-2005, 08:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Houston TX | | | looks like maple, mahogany, and a rosewood board to me :/ |
04-15-2005, 01:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Grants Pass, OR | | | I'll betthe body's Ash. The neck may have been taped off and medium brown toner applied.... |
04-15-2005, 05:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: UK | | | Thanks for your input people !
I take it Ash is a light kinda wood ? |
04-15-2005, 11:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Grants Pass, OR | | | Swamp Ash is very light... |
04-15-2005, 11:41 AM
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Owner: FBB Bass Works | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Maryland | | | I'm with Chris at this point. The grain of the body wings doesn't look like padauk very much any more. I'm thinking it's stained. Probably lightweight ash. You might be able to verify that it is stained by hunting down an exposed piece of wood - maybe in the pickup cavities or in the electronics cavity.
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04-15-2005, 12:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: UK | | | Good point FBB - i was dithering whether to kick out the neck PUP for an MM ( maybe ) ..and that would of course expose the wood beneath.
Right now though i could take the cavity cover off and see if the wood beneath has been left unstained, and get a nice close up - see what you woodsmen think.
I spose theres like a zillion types of Ash ? |
04-15-2005, 03:00 PM
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Owner: FBB Bass Works | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Maryland | | | It's pretty clear that the body wings are tinted from this latest batch of photos. It's probably ash, but red oak is a possibility.
There are a handful of different species of ash (and oak).
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04-15-2005, 05:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: UK | | | Thanks Pal - i'm going with Ash, mainly because it seems more likely as the Japanese manufacturers seemed to like this wood in the 80's
I'm pretty sure that my ex Aria Pro 2, which was near identical in color to the stained body of the Musician, was an Ash body - both are 80's built - and the Aria was even called "paduak" in the brochures of the time, but stained over Ash. It even had that maple centre piece |
04-15-2005, 06:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Grants Pass, OR | | | Yup, itsa Ash. I had an import come thru the shop some time ago with the same mild grain pattern.... | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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