Fretboard Wood

[i want a bigsby]

you can't really tell if which kind of wood is which by just looking at the wood grain, there are rose wood that looks like pf (ex. some low end gibsons like in your case) and pf that looks like rose wood(ex. in some very lucky fender player plus cases), Fender was using ebony that looks like pf on their acustasonic series guitars. gibson was even using roasted maple that's so dark that it looks like rose wood or even ebony! Therefore you can't really tell by the wood grains.

 

["ef"G]

Rosewood can be pretty light. This is brazilian rosewood which most would expect to be very dark but as you can see it doesn't have to be. Same for other species of rosewood. Personally I like the grain of this board and the one you showed as well.

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Heart of tree is darkest. Outer bands light. Depending on where board is cut from will result in variations of color

 

[jtees4]

I recently bought a 2020 Player Strat with Pauo Ferro fretboard. With a little lemon oil, it looks really nice....very "rosewoodie" with some nice grain. It feels and plays great too....BUT what I DO notice is it gets dry faster than rosewood AND it starts to get a gray color as it gets drier.

 

[Knucklehead71]

It actually does matter, but what matters may be different for each person. I prefer darker freeboards. I’d take a really dark PF board over a light rosewood board, but the next person may have a different set of likes and preferences.

Sonically it makes no difference IMO, only aesthetically.

I guess you didn't read my post?

"My advice: it doesn't matter. Does it look good? Does it feel good? That's what matters."

 

[Knucklehead71]

I know my Gibson SG, fretboard is Ebony wood, baked maple is a synthetic material, not wood.
When you put lemon oil on a baked maple fingerboard the oil stays on the top.

Baked maple is synthetic? That's a new one. See the second word "maple"? Baked maple is maple (a type of wood) that has been baked. Imagine that.

 

[CicadaNation]

Well guess what. I did buy it and I put Music Nomad F-One oil on it. Here’s what it looks like now.

Btw, I have to crop the hell out my pictures before the files are small enough to post.

 

[Decadent Dan]

Well guess what. I did buy it and I put Music Nomad F-One oil on it. Here’s what it looks like now.
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Btw, I have to crop the hell out my pictures before the files are small enough to post.

Looks nice, congrats, check that intonation

 

[CicadaNation]

Looks nice, congrats, check that intonation

It’s a wound 3rd.

 

[Col Mustard]

what a lovely guitar... the darker fretboard looks great with the
blue body and black p'ups.

I wish you well again. No need to over-oil your fretboard.
Music Nomad products are excellent, use them sparingly
and with no fear.
May you bond with your new SG and play better then you
ever thought you could.

Guys said this to me when I signed on here in like 2009 with a new
SG special and a lot of questions. I didn't believe that the SG would
inspire me to play better, but it did. May you have this joy.

And if this is your first SG, feel free to ask questions of the peanut gallery here. You can see we don't all agree, but we mostly are able
to disagree with respect. You don't get that on many fora.

Here's my 2012 SG special with baked maple fretboard which
started off as a very reddish brown. It got darker right away with
fret doctor, but lightened up later until oiled again. It's nearly ten years since I bought this guitar, and it's given great service all this time.
I use Music Nomad F1 on it maybe once a year. I also use Gorgomyte
to polish the frets, not too often.

Get her set up and then play your new SG with love and energy.
She will pay you back with great tone and playability.

 

[papagayo]

Baked maple is synthetic? That's a new one. See the second word "maple"? Baked maple is maple (a type of wood) that has been baked. Imagine that.

I was thinking about Richlite,

 

[DaveSG]

Agr

Beautiful fretboard, awesome piece of wood
I think its rosewood

Agreed, I think it looks killer. Will probably darken up a nice bit too with some age.

 

[lcw]

Baked Maple is NOT synthetic. It is Maple that has that has been heated.

"Well Baked Maple starts off its life like the regular Maple fingerboards that you often see on Fender guitars (or on the Gibson Firebird X) before being literally baked at 200 degrees Celsius (the process is called Torrefaction) moisture is then returned to the maple under pressure. The whole process results in a maple fingerboard that looks a lot closer to Rosewood or Pau Ferro than unprocessed Maple."

Maple does not absorb liquids like rosewood.

Baked maple is also known as torrefied maple. The “baking” process is called torrefaction.

 

[devnulljp]

baked maple is a synthetic material, not wood.

Baked maple is just that ... maple (wood) that's been baked. Maybe you're thinking of Richlite, which is made from paper and some kind of resin?

 

[lcw]

Indian Rosewood (per Gibson site). CS LP/SG 61

 

[Colnago]

Indian Rosewood (per Gibson site). CS LP/SG 61

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Nice piece of wood right there.

 

[devnulljp]