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05-19-2008, 05:39 PM
|  | passionate hack | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the tundra of northern NY | | | simple ? What's lighter, wenge or maple?
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I posted this under basses and then realized it's better here. I'd like to know, for a neck/fingeroard combo, what (in general) is lighter-wenge/wenge or maple/maple? Is the difference minimal or significant in the context of a 5-string bass? If there'd likely be a 1/4 pound difference, it'd matter to me.
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05-19-2008, 05:43 PM
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05-19-2008, 05:44 PM
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Builder: Mailloux Basses | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Brisbane, Australia | | Maple is lighter than Wenge. If you compare a Maple/Maple neck to a Wenge/Wenge neck, you'll definitely get more than 1/4 pound weight difference. More likely a pound. How can you see the difference in a 1/4 pound weight? That's the weight of a cheeseburger, not heavy at all. I don't think your shoulder would complain much because of the extra weight of a quarter pounder. 
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05-19-2008, 05:49 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: 915 | | | i work at a kitchen and bath showroom so i know a bit about woods. wenge is a very heavy species of wood and it is has a very strong hardness. maple on the other side is significantly lighter and has a moderate hardness. |
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05-19-2008, 05:50 PM
| | passionate hack | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the tundra of northern NY | | | Thanks!
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05-19-2008, 05:54 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Syracuse, NY | | | Ive seen some pretty heavy maple but Ive never seen any light wenge! |
05-19-2008, 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted by WarriorJoe7  Ive seen some pretty heavy maple but Ive never seen any light wenge! | Amen to that!
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05-19-2008, 06:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Phil Mailloux That's the weight of a cheeseburger, not heavy at all. I don't think your shoulder would complain much because of the extra weight of a quarter pounder. | I guess McDonald have a hamburger called like that in US?
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05-19-2008, 06:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: UK | | Maple is lighter, but wenge is nicer 
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05-19-2008, 06:40 PM
| | | | Speaking practically and from experience the two woods are closer in weight than you might think. I had some neck blank laminates equal in size, one hard maple and the other wenge and the wenge laminate was only a few onces heavier.
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05-19-2008, 11:56 PM
|  | Less barking, more wagging! | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | | Here are some numbers, courtesy of "World Woods in Color" by William Lincoln; Linden Publishing 1986; ISBN 0-941936-20-1
Soft Maple 39 Pounds per Cubic Foot, specific gravity .63
Rock Maple 45 Pounds per Cubic Foot, specific gravity .72
Wenge 55 Pounds per Cubic Foot, specific gravity .88
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05-20-2008, 12:01 AM
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Originally Posted by eleonn I guess McDonald have a hamburger called like that in US? | Absolutely correct!
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05-20-2008, 02:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Phil Mailloux Maple is lighter than Wenge. If you compare a Maple/Maple neck to a Wenge/Wenge neck, you'll definitely get more than 1/4 pound weight difference. More likely a pound. How can you see the difference in a 1/4 pound weight? That's the weight of a cheeseburger, not heavy at all. I don't think your shoulder would complain much because of the extra weight of a quarter pounder. | don't you mean 113 grams?  For fun, try ordering a "113 grammer" at McDonald's and see what you get. (Probably a confused look )
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05-20-2008, 07:11 AM
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05-20-2008, 09:06 AM
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Originally Posted by scottyd Royale with cheese...... | Ohhh ... the quarter pound McDonalds is the one called royal here?? I hate McDonalds
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05-20-2008, 02:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Syracuse, NY | | | It really depend on the sensitivity of the player to weight, but using wenge for a fingerboard should not make much noticeable difference. If you use wenge for a neck you might need to make sure that your body is heavy enough to prevent neck dive (or certain designs also help too, like a long upper horn, or very heavy bridge.) If you have a wenge body then you are going to have a very heavy bass by anyone's standards. The only way around that would be to have a smallish thin body.
small pieces of wenge like a fingerboard might only make a couple ounces of difference but a body could be a couple lbs. difference. A neck is somewhere in between and has it's own extra issues. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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