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Official Lakland Owner's Group (#17)

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Thoughts on the consistency of alder? Thoughts on whether fingerboard wood really impacts the tone on a fretted instrument? Thoughts on life itself?

:D have you been drinking some merlot again?


If my GF will charge her good camera's battery, I can try to get some pics of my DJ5's finish for ya. But for now, here's this pic that I've only posted a MILLION times, hehehe... sorry! You can barely notice the pearl-effect around the edge of the body

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Agreed on the body wood being more important, although I SWEAR I can hear a difference in fretboard woods, even though I KNOW that the string theoretically ends at the fret, not the fretboard. Oh well.

The other end of the string ends at the bridge which is mounted in the BODY wood :D....

Yeah, I can hear a difference too. I have some real damage to my right ear, and probably considerable damage to my left. So, I DON'T hear a lot of subtle "things". But, to me maple FBs seem to allow the higher notes to cut thru better (and it seems with more volume :confused:) in a loud live setting when compared to RW which sounds warmer and deeper to me. I have little experience w/ ebony on a fretted bass, but LOVE it on my Pentabuzz!!
 
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