Fretboard material

[kidsmoke*]

Unlike Deeaa, I've never been able to interchange necks and bodies. I've heard the same propositions others here have offered relating to the property of different fretboard materials. To my mind it doesn't make much of a difference. When you factor in all the supposedly significant variables to tone...strings, tail piece type/integrity, pickups, caps, wire harnesses(cloth!), guitar cable, od pedals, and amps, the NOS vs JJ's.....oh, and then there's the speaker!!!

Get a comfortable guitar with good physics(neck is straight, set up well etc) then you can change variable's, and therefore the sound, until the cows come home.

Having said that, I do notice a difference in FEEL of different boards. Both ebony and maple seem more comfortable to me, under my fingertips, with less friction/resistance. Never had an electric with ebony, I think I'd love it.

You be hard pressed to convince me that if you took my rig, and left everything exaclty the same, and swapped the 3/16" (that's approx 4.5mm, friends) slab under the strings, glued to the neck from rosewood to maple, that you'd change the sound. Not nearly as much as an infinitesimal turn of the tone knob would.

[Tig***]

But, but, but they have to make a difference so we can justify perpetual guitar purchases in the endless "pursuit of tone"! If we stop purchasing guitars, we'll destroy the Earth and all who live on her.
(Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
The dead rising from the grave!
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!)


Why do you hate the world?!