Maple fingerboards!

[AcridSaint]

Only one currently. Vellmor F Chopper KOGA signature model.

 

[georgiagoodie]

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[JRA]

i have so enjoyed gawking at all of these beautiful instruments with maple boards! i didn't indicate 'like' on all of the posts, but i could have --- i really appreciate the maple --- thanks, all.

but, IMO: snyderz (post #42) and Ghastly (post #86) nailed the maple look with their unlined, fretless maple boards = unobstructed maple! i'd give my left thing for an unlined, fretless, maple fingerboard. maybe my right thing, too.

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...and here is mine!

may the bass be with you

Wise(b)ass

fun(ny)!

The search engine on this site is so unwieldy and hard to configure that I couldn't find anything.

i agree: the search is kind of clunky and, at times, irrelevant.

 

[Dave Siff]

I'm not a fan of maple fingerboards, mostly for aesthetic reasons, but I recently picked this up in a trade and I'm digging it.

 

[rtslinger]

I have a two

 

[quilanthegreat]

That right there is the quintessential maple board P Bass. I've got one like it although the body hasn't yellowed quite as nicely yet. Beautiful.

Thank you kind sir! I believe the lighting in which this picture was taken someone exaggerates the yellow tint a bit. It's a 2015 Am Std that has seen lots of sun, but it's not quite as yellow as the picture makes it seem.

 

[twelvetrombones]

 

[Arthur U. Poon]

Arthur, what's the official color on the Sterling? Pretty sweet!

Translucent Green, if I recall.

 

[FrenchBassQC]

Here is one of mine...

 

[devnulljp]

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That is the nicest looking Rick I think I've ever seen

 

[georgiagoodie]

That is the nicest looking Rick I think I've ever seen

Thanks! It plays nice too!
Here's the back:
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[hieronymous]

Some nice stuff here! Most of my basses are rosewood or ebony, but I did pick up an early '70s Telecaster Bass back in the '90s that had been modded so I was able to have it refinished and Alembicized:

Then more recently I've picked up a couple MIJ Fenders - a Donald Duck Dunn Signature & one of the more recent 70s Precision Basses when they were still MIJ, which I also Alembicized and added a Baddass II that I had hanging around to complete the '70s look.

 

[eastcoasteddie]

Birdseye, but kinda subtle.


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The body shape on your Jake took me by surprise. I thought they were larger like a standard P body...but yours looks sort of compressed in all the right places. I really dig it!

 

[TSmith92]

Stained Maple neck/Fretboard. Dunable Thunderclapper

 

[eastcoasteddie]

I guess since you’ve asked...
All of mine have maple fingerboards...seems to be what I like, end of story.

And this one doesn’t have a separate fingerboard glued to the neck...it’s all neck. 4-piece flame maple.

 

[Pdaddy1978]

My twin maple babes...
Blondie (78 P) and Red( 84 MIJ)

 

[stevecaronna]

 

[60bass]

OK I'll play. Here's mine.

and this latest one I just got a few weeks ago.

Also many (and I do mean many) more beautiful Maple neck basses here and in the three long threads before it.

The "Official" Black 'n' Maple Club - Part Four

 

[Doug Parent]

 

[Versatek6]

Here's a partial:

On the operating table before a preamp-ectomy