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Maple or rosewood (fingerboard)
- Thread starter PJ all day
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- Apr 2, 2007
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- Builder of Bilodeau Basses
Good question, if you are thirsty, what do you drink? water? milk? Soda?
There are many possibilities when making a neck, I've red that ebony will be clearer, maple would have more attack but less sustain and rosewood is somewhere in between. It's a matter of personnal taste.
Tell us more, what kind of sound are you looking for?
There are many possibilities when making a neck, I've red that ebony will be clearer, maple would have more attack but less sustain and rosewood is somewhere in between. It's a matter of personnal taste.
Tell us more, what kind of sound are you looking for?
It is an open ended question of personal taste. My better may not be the next guys better but we are both correct.
For the record, I prefer maple boards but that is mainly from an aesthetic view. I have a 51 reissue (SCPB pickup) with rounds and a 50s P Bass (split coil) with flats. Both are one piece maple necks. They sound nothing alike.
Which brings me to my main point: pickups and string choice will by far have a greater impact on your sound than neck, fretboard, or, yes, even body wood.
For the record, I prefer maple boards but that is mainly from an aesthetic view. I have a 51 reissue (SCPB pickup) with rounds and a 50s P Bass (split coil) with flats. Both are one piece maple necks. They sound nothing alike.
Which brings me to my main point: pickups and string choice will by far have a greater impact on your sound than neck, fretboard, or, yes, even body wood.
- Apr 2, 2007
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- 0
- Disclosures
- Builder of Bilodeau Basses
The difference with the wood for the fingerboard has to do with one being softer than the other Maple is harder and has a brighter "slap" tone rosewood is softer and has a mellower tone. Ebony, is harder and brighter than Maple but more expensive and almost always fingerboard only but I know Warmouth sells an All Ebony Jazz Neck. Graphite would be in the range of Ebony and Maple but you can get combos ...graphite neck wood fingerboard or graphite finger boards (usually fretless) and there are other tonewoods other than just these
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And those are just the wooden necks!
You can do a search of XYZ tonewood to get a idea of how it affects the sound.
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Check these out. Invalid Link Removed
And those are just the wooden necks!
You can do a search of XYZ tonewood to get a idea of how it affects the sound.
Resume the Groove
