How many rosewood board instruments do you have versus maple boards?

[Jeff Scott]

One rosewood, unless you consider Chechen a rosewood (if so, then three). No maple boards.

 

[Ghastly]

I think I prefer maple, but I only have 3 maple. I have 5 rosewood.

 

[H K]

Interesting.. Never thought about this, but doing a quick count it looks pretty even.
I dont really think about it. It's a cosmetic thing for me, some basses look "better" with RW, some with maple. For example a blue flower precision with a RW board would look "wrong" to me.

One thing I did notice which kinda baffles me tho, the 2 J's in my rotation have RW, and the 2 P's have maple.

 

[Dust2Dust]

I have an even mix of maple and dark wood (I think they are that Pau stuff . . all Squier CVs and Affinitys)

I seem to prefer maple though, but I'm thinking that's based on looks more than anything.

 

[Mastermold]

Same, most are rosewood but not by design, just what they are. I bought the bass for the bass, not its fretboard.

 

[MrAB4003]

All 3 of my basses have rosewood fretboards.

 

[coldchisel]

3 x ebony
1 x eucalyptus
1 x maple

 

[edwinhurwitz]

Probably more ebony than either. But, more rosewood than maple, for sure.

 

[meisi]

Never liked the touch of a maple fretboard.

If I owned maple it would be on a bass before a guitar

 

[sdjfoh]

Birdseye maple for me. I like the snap. If I want a dark wood, Ebony is the alternative. Not a big rosewood fan.

+1

 

[SharpCat]

Rosewood, maple, pau ferro, laurel, ebony (on a mandolin), bloodwood and best of all wenge.

 

[mikeswals]

5 rosewood
6 maple
7 ebony

 

[Ondoval]

All my basses and guitars have some dark wood fretboard; rosewood, ebony, pao ferro etc. I do not like the feeling of maple unde the strings. Feels... I dont know.. slippery?

 

[Pier_]

I have different fretboards, because I don't mind at all which wood is on the fretboard

3 maple
4 ebony
7 rosewood

my only interest is the bass overall quality/sound, so the wood that's on doesn't make any difference at all in choosing the instrument.

it's just what came on it.

however my favourite looking is the ebony.

 

[Zooberwerx]

All rosewood just by chance....(2) Soundgears, a Fernandes, and a Bogart. Luck of the draw as I have no preference but I am wary of wenge.

Riis

 

[Jogobass]

I have a fretted bass with maple board, a fretless with rosewood and a fretless with ebony board. The rosewood gets eaten away by roundwound strings and needs redressing every 5 years or so. The ebony is holding up much better and sound better too in my opinion.

 

[75Ric]

Two maple, one Braz. rosewood. Next is ebony.

 

[Zooberwerx]

I have a fretted bass with maple board, a fretless with rosewood and a fretless with ebony board. The rosewood gets eaten away by roundwound strings and needs redressing every 5 years or so. The ebony is holding up much better and sound better too in my opinion.

Any way to toughen things up? I recall seeing a few threads on this subject but can't quite recall the details.

Riis

 

[tpaul]

None of my basses have necks. Is that wrong?

That's funny. My basses are all just necks. I like to open gigs with "I Ain't Got Nobody."

 

[Lo-E]

Over the years I’ve played rosewood, ebony, maple, pau ferro, padauk and phenolic “ebanol.” I currently have a mix of all of the above. It’s more rosewood and ebony than anything else but I’m too lazy to count. I think it’s four or five maple out of about 30 basses.

As long as I like the way the neck feels and the way the bass plays and sounds I’m good. To a lesser degree, the way it looks is important, too, but not so much that I would exclude a type of fingerboard wood.