Please no more poplar burl

[57pbass]

Poplar is popular …

 

[Gopherbassist]

I'm a fan, but I've always been a fan of woodgrain basses.

Back when I was a youth, the fad was flame maple on everything.

I still rock a flame maple Yamaha lol.

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I like flame maple. It looks classy.

 

[Gopherbassist]

Poplar is popular …

Poplar is what pallets are made out of.

 

[ThinCrappyTone2]

For the love of god. It's become the 2020s equivalent of pointy/flouro guitars from the 80s.

Ibanez seemingly literally can't make a guitar without plopping some poplar burl on there. Cort, got some interesting looking guitars but they just slather that poplar burl on there. Spector? Better like poplar burl.

ALL EIGHT of ESP's LTD basses introduced this year feature..you guessed it, poplar burl.

It's borderline parody:

Apparently "modern bass" just means slather some poplar burl on there. I'd love a multiscale five string Ibanez but it's almost impossible to avoid the poplar burl!

I like-a da poplar burl. It’s super lightweight and looks cool. Sorry it makes you mad

 

[Zooberwerx]

And panga panga.

My father was stationed there in the final months of WW II.....maybe it was Bora Bora.

Riis

 

[Bass4ThePublic]

i remember all the mayones buckeye burl basses from 12 years ago. Man, those were pretty.

Anything I’ve ever built with poplar has been spray painted over. Maybe I need to make a shelf with some burl

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

While I generally like wood with character - and the burls generally do have that - I am not really a fan of burls and spalts. I do have one with burl (Ibanez EHB), but it's blue burst finish makes it look very Milky Way-like, so it is not too bad.

I prefer flamed maple, quilted maple and straight grained natural wood if it is a natural or transparent wood top.

 

[SoonerBill]

That brown Schecter in the OP is one pretty bass!!

 

[gormsby]

I'm fine with the poplar burl as an option, and then, with a natural finish. I'm not on board with the color bursts (of which, Ibanez seems particularly fond of blue [?!]), nor with the "it's the only option" aspect.

 

[5StringBlues]

Please no more Doppler squirrels

 

[dfp]

At least it is not seafoam green? A color I used to love…

Also: whoever coined the term “boomer burst”, lol, well played!

 

[2112]

 

[ric426]

So much cynicism and so little soul. Do any of you realize how hard those poplar trees have to work, just to try and make something special for you?!?!? What do they get in return? Your whining and complaints. Maybe the next time you walk past a poplar tree, you could stop, look up and say "Thank you".
Besides, has it occurred to you that if it wasn't for guitar companies using up some of the poplar burl, we'd probably be up to our elbows in it?
Show some appreciation. They do it for you.

 

[2112]

Ok... fine... you win... no more poplar burl. How about myrtle burl instead?

 

[pb9717]

Love me some poplar Burl……

 

[Norm Nelson]

you gonna pry my poplar burl top Spector from my cold dead fingers I tell ya what

Also? Get used to cheaper woods on guitars. Really. Unless you wanna pay teh Big Bux.

 

[Bill Whitehurst]

I'm not a big fan, but it is good to have options.
It would be a boring world if our only options were burst or solid color over multi piece mystery wood.
I expect that, like most fads, it will burn out and go away.

 

[Dincrest]

Makes me wonder... are there THAT many diseased trees that there's an overabundance of burl for instruments in multiple price ranges? Like, is there some sort of epidemic among the trees that other living things should be worried about?

 

[SoonerBill]

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Love me some poplar Burl……

Oh yeah!!

 

[LadyLoveStingRay5]

Looks like molded bread to me.