Another poll, fretboard wood suggestions needed!!!

[Dark Horse]

The "classic" fretboard woods are Indian Rosewood and Maple.

Wrong.

The early Jazz basses were BRAZILIAN Rosewood, not Indian. In fact, you won't find many Indian Rosewood board Fenders (or any other RW board basses, regardless of manufacturer) prior to 1969, when CITES changed the rules regarding the importation of Brazilian Rosewood. Prior to 1969, Brazilian was the most widely available and cheapest rosewood.

 

[Flaked Beans]

When I think (and most people, I'm sure) of "classic electric basses", the first two would "Fender Precision" and "Fender Jazz".

One is maple, one Brazilian.



I'm in an argumentative mood today.

The first "classic" one (good 10 years before the jazz bass) had a one piece maple neck, so the fingerboard was actually the top part of the neck (maple of course).....Fender started with the 2 piece maple necks (one piece neck with one piece maple fingerboard, so two pieces) in the late 80's or something.....
now lets go back to the OP.

 

[line6man]

Wrong.

The early Jazz basses were BRAZILIAN Rosewood, not Indian. In fact, you won't find many Indian Rosewood board Fenders (or any other RW board basses, regardless of manufacturer) prior to 1969, when CITES changed the rules regarding the importation of Brazilian Rosewood. Prior to 1969, Brazilian was the most widely available and cheapest rosewood.

Ok. I had always heard that Indian Rosewood was the standard on instruments of the 1950's and 1960's, I guess that's incorrect.

 

[Dark Horse]

Ok. I had always heard that Indian Rosewood was the standard on instruments of the 1950's and 1960's, I guess that's incorrect.

That is indeed "incorrect".



Indian is the "standard" on rosewood fretboard instruments produced from 1969 till today.