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Club Alleva-Coppolo (Part 13)

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witchbass said:
i wonder how much difference there is tonally between a dark board like that one, and a lighter not as tight grain board? can anyone comment
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I don't think the color matters much, but the grain density does. Problem is, there are two factors to grain density, and one of them can't be ascertained visually... hardness. The sparser the grain, certainly the softer the board, GIVEN the same hardness, so you should lose a little high end and gain some compression (absorption)... and vice versa. The part that's pretty much impossible to tell from a picture is, despite how tight the pattern is, how hard or soft the grain is comparatively.

So I guess, for whatever its worth, if we may be able to loosely assume similar density if it's the same genus of wood, then I'd say the tighter the grain, the snappier the tone, and the looser the grain, the warmer the tone.
 
#766
Here's mine, and the f/b...
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It seems fairly snappy on top, overall, to me.
 
#768
+1 Vic. I've seen numerous fretboards at the shop where some looked like DN in darkness but was actually Indian... Jimmy has a secret formula or treatment that just works wonders.

I am commenting on appearance/color only... But agree with Vic on his assessment in the tone department.
 
#770
Chef said:
the diff b/t mine and vic's might be an example of that

pretty sure mine is indain, but, it sure seems darker than vic's
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Yeah, yours looks the same to me except I have a few lighter streaks where yours is more speckled in the lighter color, but the dark portions and the light portions seem pretty much the same. Hard to directly compare with the two very different shooting conditions tho. All I can say is, in most cases with my bass (and yours), if you're just looking at it on stage or whatever, it's dark enough to almost look like ebony until you get closer. I love that.
 
#771
Yep!
Yours appears to "have more and lighter streaks in it" than mine, but as you said, that could be lighting. Maybe. Mine never really does look like that, even in more direct light or with a flash...that's "ambient flourescent light" in my kitchen. Not the best, fo-real.
 
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Chef said:
Yep!
Yours appears to "have more and lighter streaks in it" than mine, but as you said, that could be lighting. Maybe. Mine never really does look like that, even in more direct light or with a flash...that's "ambient flourescent light" in my kitchen. Not the best, fo-real.
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Yeah, I wasn't really referring to how much lighter vs darker stuff as I was the color similarity on your light parts vs mine, and your dark parts vs mine. The grain tightness looks pretty much identical. I know mine's Indian. I think you're right that yours is too.
 
#774
svtb15 said:
This is a shot of my one DN on my kbp5.... For some reason, the flash being that close brings out alot of Red..
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Yeah, you really can't use flash on shots like these. You just have to use a lot of light, indirect sunlight or fluorescent lights and hold the camera very still (or otherwise if it also has anti-shake that works well). Avoid incandescent lights like the plague unless you're specifically looking for an artistic coloring (warming) effect and don't care about true color representation.

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#775
yeah.. i will try again today in daylight/ shade.. but only after my latte.:D

Vic said:
Yeah, you really can't use flash on shots like these. You just have to use a lot of light, indirect sunlight or fluorescent lights and hold the camera very still (or otherwise if it also has anti-shake that works well). Avoid incandescent lights like the plague unless you're specifically looking for an artistic coloring (warming) effect and don't care about true color representation.

FYI/FWIW
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