Ebony or rose wood fingerboard?
Given a choice which would you choose?
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Joined: Sep 07, 2006 Posts: 1472 Redlands, CA |
Ebony or rose wood fingerboard? |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle |
Ebony, all day and everyday. I have Ebony on two necks a Jaguar and an ES-355. Just a fantastic wood to have on a fretboard. Really old and oily Rosewood is a treat as well. Newer and dry rosewood is not such a treat. |
Joined: Mar 11, 2011 Posts: 819 Semass |
Anything but maple, that’s my stance. Between the two you actually asked about, I’m fine with rw. Oil it up so it’s nice and dark. |
Joined: Jul 30, 2016 Posts: 854 |
I actually prefer the look of lighter rosewood to dark and definitely prefer either over ebony. I have a Mexican strat with a light rosewood board and I just find it very woody and natural looking. Tangentially, I was building a virtual neck on the Warmoth site and used roasted maple neck and board with cream colored dots and it looks irresistible. It's a really striking tone on tone effect that you just can't get with a dark fingerboard (if you want to retain any marker dot functionality, anyway.) |
Joined: Sep 09, 2008 Posts: 3158 Guildford England |
African Black Ebony is desirable but also on the endangered species list. Most Ebony coming out of Asia these day is Macassar Ebony stained black sometimes clear lacquered. I'm no expert but I own a Ebony shod guitar and I'm reading up about another at the moment. I wonder if there is a good reason for lacquering Ebony, anyone? I'd like to know. |
Joined: Sep 07, 2006 Posts: 1472 Redlands, CA |
Actually I like the look of both, but I suppose I wasn't clear in my question. Last edited: Dec 14, 2017 20:13:14 |
Joined: Aug 22, 2010 Posts: 1013 Portland, Oregon with Insanitizers |
I haven't noticed differences among ebony, bakelite, rosewood, maple and fiberglas-epoxy fretboards. My various guitars have these. I very much notice differences from neck thickness, guitar weight, body size and right hand access to strings. —Insanitizers! http://www.insanitizers.com |
Joined: Feb 28, 2006 Posts: 2252 San Jose, Ca. |
I'm with Jake. Ebony, without question. —Bob |
Joined: Dec 11, 2013 Posts: 2532 Akron, Ohio |
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Joined: Sep 09, 2008 Posts: 3158 Guildford England |
Ebony is high on the density/hardness scale. See here Can be highly reflective when polished and super slippery under the fingers. It is all variable with different species. Here's a picture of a Royal White Ebony fretboard. |