Members TOStudent Posted April 3, 2006 Members Share Posted April 3, 2006 I am not bashing it. I have never owned one. Just tried for short period of time.I am just curious to your reasoning.Tone?Feel?Look?Becasue that is all a certain guitar comes with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SteveVHT Posted April 3, 2006 Members Share Posted April 3, 2006 Because they make the back of my ball sack tingle with joy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr.twin Posted April 3, 2006 Members Share Posted April 3, 2006 i like the feel of it better than most rosewood neck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EmgEsp Posted April 3, 2006 Members Share Posted April 3, 2006 Well I love my Charvel M1. I like the attack and feel of maple fretboards. It doesn't look good on every guitar, but I love the way it looks on mine. It's just different and I prefer it over rosewood tonally, but ebony is my favorite by far. Ebony has all the pros of maple without any of it's weak points. I really don't care for rosewood at all, but sometimes you don't have a choice when your looking for a nice midpriced guitar. All I can say about rosewood is that it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cloudnine Posted April 3, 2006 Members Share Posted April 3, 2006 Not so much tone. Just feel. It doesnt matter to me whether its satined or unfinished. Hard surface = good. Also, I have a couple skin thingies that make it extremely annoying to work with rosewood or ebony, my dead skin gets imbedded in the board and I have to scratch it out - with unfinished maple I can just wipe the board down, and with satin finish it doesnt generally build up at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BerkleeBill Posted April 3, 2006 Members Share Posted April 3, 2006 Rosewood feels too spongy to me. Maple gives a nice, hard surface on which to play on -- and the tone is bright with a great attack to the notes. Favorite surfaces are: .Maple .Ebony .Graphite .Rosewood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members whowasthursday Posted April 3, 2006 Members Share Posted April 3, 2006 for me, the look. Stratocaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bob Savage Posted April 3, 2006 Members Share Posted April 3, 2006 Originally posted by TOStudent I am not bashing it. I have never owned one. Just tried for short period of time.I am just curious to your reasoning.Tone?Feel?Look?Becasue that is all a certain guitar comes with? They smell good and if you break the neck, they burn nicely in the fireplace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sick Michael Posted April 3, 2006 Members Share Posted April 3, 2006 The guitar shop I bought my strat from decided to throw it in with the body. I was well chuffed!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Randy Van Sykes Posted April 3, 2006 Members Share Posted April 3, 2006 Don't like the feel of the grain in rosewood and the soft grinding under your fingers, I can't stand it really. IMO, maple looks and feels and sounds better, just preference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TOStudent Posted April 3, 2006 Author Members Share Posted April 3, 2006 Originally posted by SteveVHT Because they make the back of my ball sack tingle with joy... That's {censored}ing funny.................LOLWith all those amps you have does each one make it tingle different? LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tele Vision Posted April 3, 2006 Members Share Posted April 3, 2006 Telecaster + Maple Neck + 2nd Position = "Quack" :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Daddy Sasquatch Posted April 3, 2006 Members Share Posted April 3, 2006 For me there is nothing better than the look of a well worn maple fretboard. I also like the harder feel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dave Owens Posted April 3, 2006 Members Share Posted April 3, 2006 Malmsteen,EVH,JB, Eric,Jimi all chose Maple Necks.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr. Bungle Posted April 3, 2006 Members Share Posted April 3, 2006 The tone is very "snappy", I like it. I want a shredder guitar with a maple fretboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members telephant Posted April 3, 2006 Members Share Posted April 3, 2006 maple feels better under my finger tips. its smoother. Sometimes during a bend I feel like I get stuck or slowed down with rosewood. Ebony is cool though as its pretty smooth as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tele_jas Posted April 3, 2006 Members Share Posted April 3, 2006 I was a rosewood guy in the beginning when I started playing seriously in 1988 and got my first guitar (at age 16). Then 3 years ago I got a Peavey Wolfgang with a maple fretboard and realized that I really liked what I heard and felt. The tone was brighter and clearer and more defined. Then a few months ago I got a Pink Paisley tele with a maple fretboard and realize that was the "twang" that I didn't have in any of my past tele's with rosewood fretboards, so I did an A/B compairson with several other telecasters and ended up selling my other tele with the rosewood neck and got another tele with a maple neck. So for the first 15 years I played nothing by Rosewood and now I only own one rosewood fretboard guitar and it's a cheap strat copy (that plays great), and 3 other guitars with maple fretboards. For tele's, it's a twang factor....... For the Wolfgagn, it's less dark tone issue. Who knows, maybe in another 15 years I'll go back to Rosewood, I've still got time (I'm only 34 now). Plus, something about maple necks on a tele just look nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TOStudent Posted April 3, 2006 Author Members Share Posted April 3, 2006 Originally posted by telephant maple feels better under my finger tips. its smoother. Sometimes during a bend I feel like I get stuck or slowed down with rosewood.Ebony is cool though as its pretty smooth as well. I like Ebony as well it usually only comes on certain guitar models though and usually more expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TOStudent Posted April 4, 2006 Author Members Share Posted April 4, 2006 Originally posted by Randy Van Sykes Don't like the feel of the grain in rosewood and the soft grinding under your fingers, I can't stand it really. IMO, maple looks and feels and sounds better, just preference. I'll have to try a couple and experience what you guys are talking about.Is there a pick up you prefer running with maple fretboards vs. rosewood/Ebony? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members telephant Posted April 4, 2006 Members Share Posted April 4, 2006 Originally posted by TOStudent I like Ebony as well it usually only comes on certain guitar models though and usually more expensive. Werd. Like an LP Custom. I prefer those for the ebony alone. My Martin D-42 has ebony and its smooth as silk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Marshall Freak Posted April 4, 2006 Members Share Posted April 4, 2006 Strats and Jacksons, I prefer the look, feel and tone of Maple or ebony. On Les Pauls, I like Rosewood, as well as ebony, but I only like it after it's been used a year or two, it gets smoother and waxy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members J Kylez Posted April 4, 2006 Members Share Posted April 4, 2006 Non maple fretboard strats and tele's are dead to me! Just don't dig the look or the playability. The maples seem to feel better. That aside I don't mind rosewood on any other guitar. I am a big Les Paul fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TOStudent Posted April 4, 2006 Author Members Share Posted April 4, 2006 Originally posted by telephant Werd. Like an LP Custom. I prefer those for the ebony alone. My Martin D-42 has ebony and its smooth as silk. That is why I got the older Studio I have it comes with Ebony and it has the pearl trapazoids and not the green colored ones.The newer ones have the rosewood.Customs are way out of my price range.LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TOStudent Posted April 4, 2006 Author Members Share Posted April 4, 2006 Originally posted by Marshall Freak Strats and Jacksons, I prefer the look, feel and tone of Maple or ebony. On Les Pauls, I like Rosewood, as well as ebony, but I only like it after it's been used a year or two, it gets smoother and waxy. I like the ebony on Jackson's Soloists I just am not a big 24 ft fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members telephant Posted April 4, 2006 Members Share Posted April 4, 2006 Originally posted by TOStudent That is why I got the older Studio I have it comes with Ebony and it has the pearl trapazoids and not the green colored ones. The newer ones have the rosewood. Customs are way out of my price range.LOL I heard that. Lefty Customs are ridiculously expensive. Ive heard about those Studios. And Ive even seen some older (late 80's, maybe early 90's) Flying V's with ebony boards. I wonder if they made any of those studios in Lefty? Probably not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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