The Bass Fretboard Poll - Maple / Rosewood / Pau Ferro / Ebony

[2ndBassGuitar]

all my basses and guitars sport rosewood............but i'm dying for a maple board.........

so i can't poll as of yet.


.......need more time,and money too

From Abby? You a member of the UN Gang? Seriously... I have many maple and rosewood boards. I like a deep sound, I am tending to prefer rosewood. But really, I think certain colours (the real way of spelling this word) look better with rosewood and certain colours look better with maple

[T Alan]

On a fretless yeah that makes total sense, the thought of the look of it sounds great, can imagen that would give it a harsher sound ??

Nah, not harsh, but possibly more like maple.

T Alan, I am sure you probably prefer ebony for its dark look, but let me assure you that when applied to guitar making, both ebony and pau ferro depsite the different colors, share similar tensile strenght and resonance and in fact one can say pau ferro is actually harder that ebony, hence the name "ferro" which in some european countries can be translated as steel or metal.

Pao Ferro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thanks for the detail. Yeah, it's more about aesthetics for me. I find that the audible difference is too minimal to get excited about. So aesthetics and performance(in this case, density/resilience) for me.

[DaddyFlip]

Definitely rosewood for fretted.

I just recently decided that fretless was the bomb and I was right. Tried lined ebony on a Dargie Stingray and unlined Pau Ferro on a Sterling. Pau wins hands down for looks, feel and sound. Unlined wins too, but I'm nervous about taking the plunge.