Fender no longer using rosewood ?

[guy n. cognito]

I've been called far worse (two divorces). That's a fact as well

Join the club! With two ex wives, I'm used to explaining the difference between fact and "fact".

 

[Malak the Mad]

Have your attorney call my attorney. They'll do lunch, and bill us each @ $750/hr

Huh…you're right. Sounds like it'd be better to just chill over drinks and nachos drool while contemplating additional uses for Sharpies.

 

[basspraiser]

On top of that, the world's supply of ebony is drastically smaller than the world's supply of rosewood. In fact, most of the Indian Rosewood coming out of India is grown on plantations, so it's a completely renewable source of wood. With Fender switching to ebony it simply means ebony will be added to the CITIES list that much sooner.

This is what I was thinking .. Ebony is even more "rare".... Especially the even colored black/ Dark Ebony

Does this really solve any issues or is it simply marketing?

 

[RedJag]

This is what I was thinking .. Ebony is even more "rare".... Especially the even colored black/ Dark Ebony

Does this really solve any issues or is it simply marketing?

But the ebony will only be on the higher end instruments. Pau Ferro will be on the majority of instruments.

 

[Flaked Beans]

Oh drinks and nachos! I want some drinks and nachos now! That said, I have a feeling that my next bass will be a brand new american standard fretless jazz bass (with the new upgraded ebony fingerboard!)

 

[PixelPaintbrush]

huh...My fender and Ibanez guitars have Maple Fretboards, Personally I could care less about woods, sound is all encompassing to me. though...I Do have a solid Ovangkol guitar...isn't that glorified rosewood?

 

[Charlzm]

Not sure why more people don't like maple boards?

I don't like the looks. I can't tell the sound difference.

 

[Flaked Beans]

I Do have a solid Ovangkol guitar...isn't that glorified rosewood?

No.

 

[Pbassmanca]

I have a bass with pau ferro, and nobody ever said it looks cheap. It wasn't cheap, either.

I had a Peavey Cirrus 4-string with a pauferro fretboard that sounded like a million bucks. I doubt there's much of a Sonic difference between pau ferro and Rosewood.

 

[nostatic]

Huh…you're right. Sounds like it'd be better to just chill over drinks and nachos drool while contemplating additional uses for Sharpies.

Excellent idea. I'll stop by the gas station for the cheese sauce...

 

[Malak the Mad]

Excellent idea. I'll stop by the gas station for the cheese sauce...

Pick some up for our lawyers!

 

[nostatic]

Pick some up for our lawyers!

Never poison a tort attorney. Also a bad idea to sleep with their wife but I digress...

One of the life lessons I try to pass along...

 

[Iridescentone]

My Turner Electroline is not a cheap bass by my standards. Looks pretty nice to me.

 

[JMacBass65]

 

[svtb15]

Clickity Clack... Bye Bye warm tones

 

[Nephilymbass]

Not an issue to me. Played several good basses with Pau ferro boards and I'll take ebony over rosewood any day of the week.

 

[Malak the Mad]

Didn't the MIM Jaco-sig Jazz from a few years back have a Pau Ferro fretboard? If so, I'd like to invite anyone who had or even sampled one to chime in.

EDIT: Apparently it's an MIA model. My bad!

 

[MR PC]

Pau Ferro is a wonderful wood for fingerboards. Some pretty high end basses over the years have used Pau Ferro..one in particular an early Michael Tobias bass of Westren Soft Maple (body and neck) and pau ferro fingerboard comes to mind. I dream about that bass to this day. Another was a one piece Steinberger style fretless bass neck of Pau Ferro made by Steve Klein. I see this rosewood ban as shapes of things to come frankly. I heard about a new synthetic fingerboard material "Rockwood" that seems promising. Check out the fingerboard offerings at Luthiers Mercantile International (LMI), and it's obvious that demand is exceeding supply for traditional and even not so traditional fingerboards.

 

[Flaked Beans]

My goodness those are some of the cheapest looking basses I have ever seen I'll give you $500 for the whole lot but you have to pay shipping that's the best I can do.

LOL

 

[miles'tone]

Didn't the MIM Jaco-sig Jazz from a few years back have a Pau Ferro fretboard? If so, I'd like to invite anyone who had or even sampled one to chime in.

Yes it did. Although it was actually made in the USA along side the AVRI '62 Jazz basses. I played one many times at a store and it was wonderful.