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03-07-2011, 07:56 AM
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What are the pros and cons of each?
Any truth to "too much birdseye" being a bad thing? |
03-07-2011, 07:59 AM
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03-07-2011, 08:29 AM
|  | Quatre-cordes | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: New Orleans, LA /El Paso TX | | as long as the general grain of the birdseye piece is straight, you should be ok.
The pros and cons are subjective, and I personally like the looks of birdseye fingerboard over a rosewood one, unless the rosewood has a nice pattern and is more brown than black, like my 97 MIA  |
03-07-2011, 10:39 AM
| | | | Maple tends to have that "snap" in the sound many players like for slap sounds and funky fingergrooves. Rosewood has a "warmer" more mellow sound, which can also be very nice.
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03-07-2011, 10:42 AM
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03-07-2011, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by 5string5fingers not again.............. | Yup. Again.
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03-07-2011, 10:57 AM
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Originally Posted by CTC564 Any truth to "too much birdseye" being a bad thing? | No.   
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03-07-2011, 12:22 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Down in the middle somewhere. | | | Rosewood is brown, maple is white... |
03-07-2011, 12:26 PM
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Originally Posted by StuartV | killer Millenium! |
03-07-2011, 12:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Chicago, IL | | | I currently have a musicman with birdseye maple fretboard and I like it alot. I've had a bass before that has a rosewood fretboard, and I definately prefer the maple. It just seems alot smoother to me. |
03-07-2011, 12:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Toms River,NJ | | | Thanks to all for the responses...
I've had rosewood on most of my basses...had birdseye maple on my STOLEN Lakland 55-94...looking into getting a new instrument and just trying to gather as much info as possible |
03-07-2011, 12:59 PM
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03-07-2011, 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by BigOldHarry but which is best for METAL??? | rosewood because it's dark, like my soul
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03-07-2011, 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by 5string5fingers rosewood because it's dark, like my soul | But could the "birdseye" be the eye of a vulture???
Okay, I'm reaching...
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03-07-2011, 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by BigOldHarry but which is best for METAL??? | You beat me to it!
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03-07-2011, 06:24 PM
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Originally Posted by BigOldHarry But could the "birdseye" be the eye of a vulture???
Okay, I'm reaching... | I plucked those bird eyes out and stuck them to my fretboard.
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03-07-2011, 06:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: winston-salem, nc | | | I've got 3 maple and 3 rosewood- and can't really tell a big difference in the sound. The tech who works on my guitars has said birdseye necks were more prone to warp, but I'm not sure if thats across the board or what. He had a custom guitar built and had the neck go to hell on him in the first year of playing it- but he also said he's worked on many guitars with birds eye necks that have held up great.
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