Wow! My poor skills could do better than that. I'm surprised they didn't color it over with a Black Magic Marker!
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Thunderbird Club
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Yes I noticed the most commonly produced instrument's fret boards don't look as good as the older guitars and basses did. A lot of the Japanese copies had nice fret boards too. I know a lot has to do with protected wood species but like you said you can take the extra step and tame down the grain from showing so much. The manufacturers would have to add cost doing the extra treatments.
Right? It looks like the “repair” made it worse. It looks like they just slapped poly or epoxy over it and called it good. A Gluboost kit with the black powder would have been an easy match since the damage is in the black area. That’s a Reverb seller I would avoid. I wonder if they are one of Gibbon’s dent and scratch resellers.
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At one time, fb woods were primarily rosewood, maple and ebony. Now there are many types of wood used and each looks different. Everyone got accustomed visually to the three commonly used woods and many people want a fb to look a certain way. As wood has a 'colour/tone' - some wood colours work well with certain finishes (natural, stained or paint), and not so much with others. The original three woods kinda went with everything.
Any wood, unless clear-coated will accept stain of any variety. So if wanted, a wood like laurel can be made to look more like rosewood or ebony. It's not the end of the world - it's simply a cosmetic consideration.
Any wood, unless clear-coated will accept stain of any variety. So if wanted, a wood like laurel can be made to look more like rosewood or ebony. It's not the end of the world - it's simply a cosmetic consideration.
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Stain isn't fixing ugly blotchey looking grain. That's the problem with laurel. Good consistent boards are out there but there's a lot of ugly cheap looking laurel on otherwise nice instruments.
Ooooh, I dig that. Interestingly, compare it to the photo of the purple one, the pickguard on the Blue one is mounted lower. On the Blue, the lower screw on the pickguard is pretty much aligned with the pickup screw. On the purple, its well above the pickup screw. And you can see the guard isn't centered on the wing.
I wonder how that happened?
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I have two Hamiltons - never had an issue with them.
I totally agree. I was just pointing out to @KB5 there are options to the look you want.
