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What fretboard do you prefer for Precision basses?

Maple or rosewood

  • Maple

    Votes: 167 65.5%
  • Rosewood

    Votes: 88 34.5%

  • Total voters
    255
Rosewood for a P. Partly because of the warmer tone, partly because my first bass was a MIM P with rosewood, and partly because coming from playing upright a darker fingerboard sometimes just looks right to me.

I do like some maple board instruments also though. My T-40 and 55-01 are both Maple and I love them and the maple with black blocks is HOT.