View Poll Results: What is your favourite fretboard wood?

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  • Maple

    58 38.67%
  • Rosewood

    59 39.33%
  • Pau Ferro

    10 6.67%
  • Ebony

    23 15.33%
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The Bass Fretboard Poll - Maple / Rosewood / Pau Ferro / Ebony

This is a discussion on The Bass Fretboard Poll - Maple / Rosewood / Pau Ferro / Ebony within the Music Man Basses forums, part of the Gear Talk category; Originally Posted by fly all my basses and guitars sport rosewood............but i'm dying for a maple board......... so i can't ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by fly View Post
    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
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    Quote Originally Posted by danny-79 View Post
    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.


    Quote Originally Posted by Grand Wazoo View Post
    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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