Selling my Albert Lee...

[candid_x]

I really like the ebony fingerboard on my LP (not that I play it nowadaze!).
and that guitar has a warm sound to it - it does have 3 humbuckers on there though!!
I wonder what an EB guitar would sound like with Ebony?

Very old friend and bandmate plays a Guild.. not a bluesbird but a prototype based off the bluesbird; sorta Guild's answer to the LP. It sports an ebony board, plays fast as hell and with a lot of resonance acoustically. Amped, it sounds very clear. Not a lot of mojo but a very nice guitar. He was a jazz player tuning into rock, and for his style it was perfect.

I think it's the blend of woods that makes the difference. Ash with maple is just to bright for my taste. Ash with ebony, yikes! Like fingernails across a blackboard, me thinks. But mahagony, rosewood or alder with ebony.. might work.

 

[robelinda2]

I used to own an Ibanez JEM 90th Anniversary, it has an ebony board, sold it to fund my first ball- the Luke. just didnt like the guitar at all in the end, dont think it had much to do with the ebony board, but it might have. most likely it was the shape and ultra thin neck.

i also used to own a 76 Ibanez Les Paul, ebony board also, but with heaps of fancy inlays, nice axe, but i actually developed shoulder pain it was that heavy!

 

[candid_x]

I used to own an Ibanez JEM 90th Anniversary, it has an ebony board, sold it to fund my first ball- the Luke. just didnt like the guitar at all in the end, dont think it had much to do with the ebony board, but it might have. most likely it was the shape and ultra thin neck.

i also used to own a 76 Ibanez Les Paul, ebony board also, but with heaps of fancy inlays, nice axe, but i actually developed shoulder pain it was that heavy!

I can't imagine heavy inlay work doing anything good for a guitar's tone. I appreciate MM's generally more modest inlay markers.

Probably the most unusual guitar, wood wise, I've owned was a Gib LP in solid walnut. It was a really nice guitar with great HB tone through a variety of amps. It wasn't especially heavy either, and was finished in oil only, no maple cap. Walnut is an oily wood to begin with, and it took on a nice sheen after a year or so. Wonder why walnut isn't used more often?

 

[deweyd]

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