The problem with birdseye maple

[jive1]

So I'm playing my Lakland 4-94, and I notice a couple of dings on the top of the neck on the fretboard. Since I just got it, I was wondering where they came from. Between sets, I take at the neck and realize that it wasn't any ding at all. It was the figuring on the birdseye maple that looked like a ding.

Anyone ever experience this?

 

[pistoleroace]

The beauty about Birdseye Maple is it can look 3D in certain light. I've seen what you are talking about before but it's just the figuring in the wood.

 

[Luckydog]

wood growth defects...gotta love em

 

[Figjam]

<3 birdseye

 

[tplyons]

I got scared about my Stingray, then I looked at the rest of the neck. Ding city, but I didn't feel one. Then it hit me, birdseye!

I know, I've been there too!

 

[theblackshade]

My bass top is flamed maple, but it has an odd figure on one spot. It doesn't look like birdseye at all, but I have had the same experience with it, under certain lighting conditions it seems there is a ding... perhaps our basses are implying we should take better care of them with subliminal messages?

 

[LowEndLobster]

I had similar with my thumb. THe bubinga is highly figured, and it looked like it had this major indent (It gave the illusion of a real indent). So I poked at it for a few minutes, then realized it was some odd figuring.

 

[embellisher]

birdseye = . I too <3 birdseye.

 

[Scottie Johnson]

My G&L has some very light birdseye figuring on it. It freaked me out when I first got it. There is one spot where it has a cluster of very light eyes on the back on the neck and I have grown to love it.