Mantaray
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Which wood is your favorite for FRETLESS fingerboards and why?
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oddjob
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I love Ovangkol and Bloodwood. They are a bit outside the ordinary channels but sound wonderful. Ovangkol is dark gold/brown with some red highlights. Very warm sounding while maintaining defination. Very durable. Bloodwood is , well reddish brown. Very warm, rounded sound... kind of dark. Again, very durable.
I have had 2 custom fretless with these boards and loved them both (I just sold the bloodwood one to pay for my new Bongo
) .
When it all comes down to it, it is more an issue of YOU. What do you like, what does your playing style dictate, and as Bovine put it, what is YOUR tone. If you like it and it sounds good, it doesn't matter.
I have had 2 custom fretless with these boards and loved them both (I just sold the bloodwood one to pay for my new Bongo
) . When it all comes down to it, it is more an issue of YOU. What do you like, what does your playing style dictate, and as Bovine put it, what is YOUR tone. If you like it and it sounds good, it doesn't matter.
Jean-Frédéric
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Is Fretless that hard ?
oddjob
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It is a whole new beast
Seriously, it is more about technique and feeling than it is about straight chops. It isn't that it is hard... it is just very different.
Seriously, it is more about technique and feeling than it is about straight chops. It isn't that it is hard... it is just very different.
Jean-Frédéric
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hope I'll be able to get one
johans
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Mantaray said:
ebony's smooth i think
Mantaray
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ebony's smooth and hard as a rock. Even if you use steel roundwounds, it won't be easily marked. Ebonol is much better in this part. Very hard, a LOT cheaper, and almost the same sound, maybe a bit darker or dryer.
Rosewood is very soft and muddy and you will see soon enough literally pieces of your fretboard stuck between the string windings.
I haven't tried pau ferro.
Rosewood is very soft and muddy and you will see soon enough literally pieces of your fretboard stuck between the string windings.
I haven't tried pau ferro.
Jean-Frédéric
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I haven't tried any yet ...maybe it'd be about time that I do so... I have to go help a friend to get a good decent first bass .. I'll some try MMfretless then
