Fretboard Preference

What material do you like best for your fretboards?

  • Rosewood

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  • Pao Ferro

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  • Maple

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  • Ebony

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  • Acrylic

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  • Something else

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I have 3 maple, 1 pao ferro, 2 ebony, 2 rosewood. The 3 maples all feel really different because one's nitro, one's glossy poly, and one's satin poly. The nitro is a Nash, and I wish the back didn't have any finish rubbed off because the finish has no tack or stickiness at all and feels great. New nitro is sticky as crap though, but maple is going to have the most variation due to the different finishes. The other 3 types, I notice the difference in looks a lot more than any difference in feel. How would I know if they sound different-they're all on different style guitars. Rosewood has the most grain-the others are tight grained. Ebony is the slickest and probably hardest. Do I prefer one over the other? Depends on the guitar, but in general for the darker woods, not really.

 
I've been accused of wearing basses like ties.

Right now it's an ebony board on a black transparent bass.

Last week it was Maple on inca silver and rosewood on salmon pink.

Next week who knows.

I just can't make up my mind!

 
Ebony for me, rosewood next. I have only liked maple on one guitar, the sillouette (music man) felt great, sounded gorgeous.

The only other one i want to try is the cocabolo. Stole my idea, I had that cab made out of it and thought, if i ever have a custom built, i want a cocabolo fretboard.

Im not envious of anything................except that fretboard, it actually almost angered me /emoticons/default_biggrin.png/emoticons/default_tongue.png

 
Brazilian Rosewood!!!!!

I picked up a guitar with a solid unfinished Brazilian Rosewood neck & Fretboard a while back, WOW is all I have to say, the feel of it alone won me over.

 
Ebony is my favorite, but the majority of my guitars have rosewood boards. I used to have a LOT of ebony boards, as ebony is carvin's standard fretboard wood. But, of the Carvin guitars/basses I have now, 1 is ebony, 2 are rosewood, and 2 are maple. Overall, if I count basses and acoustics, it breaks down like this:

Ebony: 2 (Carvin CT6M, Gibson SG Supreme)

Maple: 3 (Carvin Bolt, Carvin B4A, Fender Tele)

Rosewood: 8 (3 Hamers, 2 Heritage, 1 Gibson, 2 Carvin)

 
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