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Maple or rosewood on your Jazz?

#61
SanDiegoHarry said:
FWIW - This came in day before yesterday from Warmoth - for my current J build. Flame maple is the same as maple... right?


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Flame maple (and birds eye) is the same as regular maple providing it comes from a sugar maple tree. The grain pattern just goes up and down like a wave and catches the light differently from trough to peak. Knowing the standards of Warmoth they are using the right stuff. Your pics aren't up so I'm assuming you're talking about neck wood?. If it's in a body then they could be using softer western maple because it's lighter.
 
#62
Mantis Tobaggan said:
What about laminated rosewood? Is it different from regular? Thats what i have
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It's the same material, they just cut the bottom of it concave and the part of the neck it's glued on convex. Leo took this unnecessary caution feeling that the rosewood and maple would react differently to different climates in a potentially negative fashion. A solution to not much of a problem.
 
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#64
SanDiegoHarry said:
Let's try this again...
And really go with the Graphite and the slim taper - this neck weighs 1lb, 13 oz and feels *great*. I've had other Warmoth necks, and they can feel chunky. Note the hint of a real volute in the 2nd picture - you would not see that with the standard neck profile.

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That is perfect, I've been thinking of ordering something just like that. Is that bare wood or is there a satin finish?

I had a Warmoth with steel rods 24 years ago and it was heavy, not great feeling but pretty stable. I played a newer one and really dug it but the guy didn't know if it was the thin profile or what support rods were in it.

I'm been going to pick up a rosewood from the showcase to finish this burgundy mist project but they haven't had any slim/graphite/rosewoods in stock. I'm contemplating doing something like this mock up later. Black Cherry Metallic, but with roasted maple, and MOP dots and put a truoil finish to adds some contrast to the board.
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Or maybe this..
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#65
I prefer maple necks. Obviously there's a couple different camps when it comes to the tonality of the wood choices.
There is a slew of variables when it comes to comparing tones of different basses/wood combinations. Notably strings, pickups, & technique are going to be more contributing factors. Also, having one of each never hurt anybody to my knowledge.

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rmars said:
That is perfect, I've been thinking of ordering something just like that. Is that bare wood or is there a satin finish?

I had a Warmoth with steel rods 24 years ago and it was heavy, not great feeling but pretty stable. I played a newer one and really dug it but the guy didn't know if it was the thin profile or what support rods were in it.

I'm been going to pick up a rosewood from the showcase to finish this burgundy mist project but they haven't had any slim/graphite/rosewoods in stock. I'm contemplating doing something like this mock up later. Black Cherry Metallic, but with roasted maple, and MOP dots and put a truoil finish to adds some contrast to the board.
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Or maybe this..
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Satin finish. I was really temped to go gloss (since the flame would stand out better) but Satin just feels so much better to play.
The body I'm putting it on is a Warmoth dinky J, Alder, routed for two nordstrand big singles. Finish is what they call "spectra blue". I don't have a picture, but here's the color on a strat body:

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#70
Why not one of each?

My 65 Jazz has rosewood, 77 has maple

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Although if you really want to settle the question of whether it makes a difference in tone, get two necks, one with RW, one with maple, and swap them out on the same bass.
Not that that would definitively stop the arguments of course.
 
#73
I get a brighter sound and longer sustain out of the Maple neck on my passive Jazz Bass than I did with the rosewood fretboard on my 1965 Jazz bass. Of course, I also run DR Black Beauties on my current Jazz Bass and used Fender nylon-taped flat wounds on my '65. So certainly the strings had a lot to do with the sound too. I do love the maple neck on my current Jazz.
 
#76
The warmest jazz bass I have is the one with the maple fingerboard. But then it has different pickups to my one with a rosewood fingerboard. Previously that second bass was warmest, with different pickups. So whatever effect fingerboard wood might have it must be easily overwhelmed by pickup choices based on this unscientifically small sample
 
#77
SanDiegoHarry said:
Satin finish. I was really temped to go gloss (since the flame would stand out better) but Satin just feels so much better to play.
The body I'm putting it on is a Warmoth dinky J, Alder, routed for two nordstrand big singles. Finish is what they call "spectra blue". I don't have a picture, but here's the color on a strat body:

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Cool! Please post when you get it finished, I'd love to see it.
 

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