Maple Fingerboard Love!

[Dr. Cheese]

late to the party, but I’ll play. I love maple!
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You have some real classics.

 

[jonesn4bass]

You have some real classics.

Thanks! I’ve had some real fortune on good deals over the years!

 

[rjovin]

3 of my 4 basses have maple fingerboards.

 

[GrooveDaddy]

Couldn’t resist - here are my 3 beauties!

 

[CTC564]

Had to enter a second...

 

[Jrob121212]

What does everyone use to clean maple fingerboards?

 

[rjovin]

What does everyone use to clean maple fingerboards?

Nothing

 

[Marihino]

My main for the last 9 years or so. The Sadowsky preamp with VTC increased the versatility by a million times, and the base quality of tone as well.

 

[Jrob121212]

Nothing

I guess Im doing it right then lol

 

[dan foster]

What is the little SX bass? Not familiar, you like it?

 

[FrenchBassQC]

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The Carvin looks amazing.

 

[crobasster]

 

[Smoothmove]

My Beautiful Roscoe Century Custom!!! One Keith’s finest fretboards

 

[Dr. Cheese]

What is the little SX bass? Not familiar, you like it?

I love it. It was $90 well spent!

 

[BillLee64]

 

[TN WOODMAN]

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Me too. So I finally built this Warmoth. Wilde P/J pickups. GHS Tapewounds.

Excuse the fingerprints-only complaint with gloss black

On closer inspection of that pic, it’s not fingerprints after all-it’s a reflection of the chandelier in our living room-still blaming the gloss black.

 

[TN WOODMAN]

Got a couple of my own builds to show off and a new one in progress that Im working on. Really love maple and I'm slowly figuring out out to finish it best.View attachment 3871342View attachment 3871338 View attachment 3871340

I’ll say one thing besides the beauty of your builds-I think you’ve figured out a way to keep them from tipping over when propped against an amp or wall.

 

[PhatBottomBass1]

For the love of Maple...

My first real Bass, a Gibson Ripper, had a Maple board...

I think if you play a solid P Bass, you most likely have a Maple board and flats on it...

Roger Waters knows what I'm saying...!

Currently, my super solid P Bass has Rosewood and nickel rounds...(but sounds fabulous with a Peter Florence Voodoo pickup and projects across the room unamplified.)

I did play an '08 Fender Jazz with Black/Maple and Lawrence SCN pickups /East J-RETRO for a solid 5 years of gigging...then dropped it for a Fender '57 RI P...hand always felt cramped on a Jazz! lol

I can never seem to get into a matching color finish on a Maple/Maple neck...I've tried for years, too!

My 5'er has Wenge/Wenge now...exotic Maple...I guess..??

 

[M W Cunningham]

I agree!

Not only do they look great, but the have a better sound, (a little brighter, with more growl if needed)

 

[Dr. Cheese]

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I love me some Spector!