In love with blue/maple!

[EmuBass]

I appreciate the look of blue basses with maple fretboard. I think this looks really classy. So if anybody wants to establish a "club" please feel free (I am not giving "numbers"). The main purpose would be to show your own basses. But for the beginning I just show one of my basses and some others which I found on the web ...

 

[WI Short Scaler]

I don't have one, but agree that maple boards look awesome.

 

[bluesfordan]

I put a maple fingerboard neck on a Lake Placid blue strat body last month, that used to have a rosewood fingerboard neck on it. I normally consider myself a hardcore rosewood fretboard player. Much of that stems from the extreme distaste I developed for maple due to a utterly dreadful '74 strat I bought new when I was 16 and just barely begun playing. Sales guy saw me coming a mile away, probably, and dumped that hunk'o shite on me. I thought it was my fault that I could barely play the damn thing because I was such a newbie. In contrast, when I bought an Ibeenhad LP copy a few years later, the rosewood fingerboard was heaven sent. I spent the next 30 years eschewing maple fingerboards until I played a GVCG black guard tele and learned that the genus of Acer wasn't evil incarnate after all. It was just horrible manufacturing that glopped poly thick and heavy and all over (literally covered) the frets on that horror show from the '70s.

I recently saw a '74 Tele that was asking stoopid vintage high price that had the exact same poly glopped over frets. SMH. Granted, it sounded killer, as long as you didn't want to move your fingers around on the neck. I wonder why it was in almost unplayed condition

Squier made some darned nice maple necks in China (now moved to Indonesia from what I've read). I found one and put it on the aforementioned LPB body. I was supposed to sell this build but dang, it is so nice I don't want to.

 

[RickBlair]

Here is a Blue Mosrite clone with a maple neck that I built a few years ago.

Rick B.

 

[Marcus Willett]

It’s definitely one of my favorite color combos.

 

[Clark Westfield]

I’ll play, be it a bit late.

 

[bikeplate]

 

[Kro]

I've been inspired by a few here for sure, and have one in the works now. Body should be delivered for assembly within the next few weeks.

Will share the real thing then, but until then allow me to share my artist's rendition (that is a shot of the actual body).

 

[bgartist]

Not mine but one of my favorites.

 

[Snakeman1066]

 

[coreyfyfe]

Did a blue and maple build over the summer. Warmoth body, allparts neck, Serek singles.

 

[TerenceE]

 

[Texican]

 

[Staccato]

Great basses on this thread, keep posting them!

 

[rickster4003]

Here is a Blue Mosrite clone with a maple neck that I built a few years ago.

Rick B.

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Ha.. I had the same one as your dark sun burst but in univox form! Actually sounded nice with some grittyness.

 

[Killing Floor]

 

[ShawnG]

EBMM Cutlass

 

[DoctorZee]

 

[tubatodd]

 

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