Hold on there, Doc. I should hope there's not a lot of wear up at the 12. Whatcha doin' way up there
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Glarry Fretless Fingerboard
- Thread starter Dr. Cheese
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Playing the heads of Bebop songs and some Jaco stuff too.
Doc, two of my Cort B4FLs (Indian rosewood boards) are 20 years old, I’ve been gigging them twice weekly plus practices from 2016 until this March, and they have no wear. Just surface markings and not even much of that. I use Rotosound RS66LF strings.
The tales of deep gouges and other horrible destruction of fingerboards are all utter fiction.
Ebonol is layered paper and resin. We’re going to see a lot more of this sort of thing with non-resonant instrument parts. Fine by me.
Yes, yes it is. I have mighty-mite Ebonol neck I enjoy playin paired up with an TB standard PJ special.
Reverend uses Blackwood Tek for their Thunderguns. Looks like rosewood, feels like maple.
When I see some of the sad-looking Pau Ferro some companies use, I have to wonder if it's that much cheaper than composites.
Blackwood Tek Engineered Hardwood
When I see some of the sad-looking Pau Ferro some companies use, I have to wonder if it's that much cheaper than composites.
Blackwood Tek Engineered Hardwood
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Well there you have it! Stacked and packed, resin/wood composite, glued and pressure bound, interesting. Dude you happen to have a cross section of a glarry fingerboard, haha that cracks me up!
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That neck was trimmed to a jazz-like profile in nut width and thickness. Then I coated it in CA. Then, decided I'd rip the board off and attach a nice figured board to it. I never did finish that project.
According to the Glarry site, that fingerboard is rosewood. Is this the same as yours? Glarry GP Fretless Electric Bass Guitar 4 String Burlywood Sunset - Glarrymusic
The fretboard on my fretted Glarry P bass looks like a chocolate gram cracker.
Yea maybe rosewood "pulp" first thing I noticed when it showed up was how odd the fingerboard material was.
per the OP: it's definitely a composite: at one point the glarry site or an ebay seller's site described it as such. but to the best of my knowledge no one has given the stuff a name. it is not ebonol. it has a rosewood 'look' (vs. ebony) and for the short time i played one (i switched mine out to a maple neck) it felt more like rosewood than ebony/ebonol.
Wait a MINUTE!!!! You have to tell me how you "trimmed to a jazz-like profile in nut width and thickness". I need to do that to mine!!!
Yes composite "Glarry site or ebay seller site described it as such" rings a bell. In an earlier post by Fender_Bender mentioned “Richlite“ sure does look like it although I was under the impression it was a bit more expensive to produce that being said there is probably ZERO loss ie: subpar unusable rosewood boards produced.
Looks good. I did the same to my $69 Glarry (they hadn't offered the fretless yet). The frets came off easy but the most challenging part was coating the fretboard with 5 coats of super glue. I had to watch the humidity level in the room or it would turn the glue a hazy white. I ended up doing more that 5 coats because of that.
