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01-31-2013, 08:55 AM
|  | My SQUIER is on Fire! | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Blimp City USA | | | Love my Maple!
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01-31-2013, 08:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2012 Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland | | | I have both Rosewood and Maple, i like each for different things.
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01-31-2013, 06:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Twin Cities, MN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bigsnaketex  I LOVE MAPLE.
...I happen to hate a sunburst bass. And it seems to be the most popular!!
| I hate sunburst too. I also love maple.
How do you feel about beer?
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01-31-2013, 07:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Texas Gulf Coast | | Quote:
Originally Posted by gurensan I hate sunburst too. I also love maple.
How do you feel about beer? | I guess you love 1/2 my '74 Jazz.   
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02-01-2013, 08:54 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Down South | | Quote:
Originally Posted by gurensan I hate sunburst too. I also love maple.
How do you feel about beer? | Beer is the nectar of the GOD's......my long lost brother!!
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02-01-2013, 08:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Down South | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Texsunburst59 | I like all of your '74 jazz. My personal preference for NOT liking Sunbursts does not translate to individual instruments. It's simply that it's so overdone and I'd rather have a cool color that is in the smaller percentage of what is out there.
I guess my momma raised me to want to be special!!
But your bass has much mojo and I'm really digging the red!!
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02-01-2013, 08:56 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | | | If they're available, I use maple boards exclusively.
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02-01-2013, 08:59 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Winnipeg, MB | | I only have one bass, out of four, that doesn't have maple board. I love maple boards 
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02-01-2013, 09:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Twin Cities, MN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Texsunburst59 | No I love all of your 74 jazz. I would give it a warm, comfortable home if it needed it. I even promise I won't refin it!
That one has EARNED its burst!
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02-01-2013, 10:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Poland, Capital | | Maple fretboard look stunning. I'm planning to make one for the Defil Lotos I shown at shortscale thread. I'll also put black square markers, like those in JB.
For me maple is a popular tree for a fretboards, even Defil made some basses with maple fretboard. Like this Aster Bass 2, made fully of maple: 
Less common wood for fretboards is mahogany, and Defil actually made mahogany fretboards - got a Defil guitar with that fretboard. Even tough the most common fretboard material was rosewood. |
02-01-2013, 01:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Bowie, MD | | | MAPLE is UNPOPULAR???
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Originally Posted by gurensan I hate sunburst too. ... | 
So THAT'S what I've been doing wrong! 
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02-01-2013, 01:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Australia | | | I personally prefer the look of a darker fretboard.
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02-01-2013, 01:23 PM
|  | aka Marc or Marky Potatoes | | Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Brooklyn, NY, United States | | I think the OP meant to say that Maple Fretboards are UnPOPLAR, meaning they are not Poplar. He would be right.  
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02-01-2013, 03:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Australia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ggvicviper I think the OP meant to say that Maple Fretboards are UnPOPLAR, meaning they are not Poplar. He would be right. | I've never seen a poplar fretboard before
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02-01-2013, 03:15 PM
|  | This time, I didn't forget the gravy...
Graphic Designer, Zon Guitars | | | | I just thought I'd chime in here and say that for lefties, maple fretboards aren't as common.
Fender, for example, hasn't made a production bass with a maple fretboard on it in over 30 years.
Ask me how happy I am about that.  |
02-02-2013, 06:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Hopkins Well, If maple is brighter than rosewood because it is harder and tighter grained. How could ebony not be brighter than maple, its much harder, and tighter than maple is. I don't really buy that one. | While there are exceptions ebony is brighter. To my ears other things happen in other frequencies that make for different tone when comparing the fretboards. We can't ignore the construction. One piece maple or a separate fretbd like rosewood on maple? Always too, each piece of wood is different even from the same tree. |
02-02-2013, 07:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Virginia | | | Roger Sadowsky seems to prefer them too! |
02-02-2013, 08:30 AM
| | | | Darker fretboards are used on other stringed instruments and for a long, long time now. I think the preferenced is carry over form another time.
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