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Post subject: Brazilian Board?
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 9:49 am
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Got a 2006 60's relic custom shop strat. COuld the the rosewood slab board be Brazilian?
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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 1:28 am
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You should be able to tell by looking at it- BR has a particularly chocolatey grain very different to normal rosewood.

Got any pics?


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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 2:39 pm
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got board pics! CS says its not brazilian based on sn. But check it out!

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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 3:00 pm
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I've compared your pics to the BR board on my PRS, have to say yours looks very similar- I'd say it is, but can't see enough of the grain to see the distinct swirls.

This link is to a strat with a BR fingerboard- hopefully you can see what I mean.

http://www.guitars4you.co.uk/guitars/2797.htm


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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 3:35 pm
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Thanks for the link R911, however the url shows a "limited Strat", and yes indeed, she'd be a BR... Agree that the pics are not close enough to tell/compare... keep post'n man!

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I admit that is a really pretty slab of rosewood. :D However, Due to the embargo on the brazilian species, extensive documentation on the manufacturers part is required to prove the wood was purchased through legal channels. So, needless to say, if you have braz, it should be documented by fender, and easily verifiable.

Recently the feds impounded a bunch of Mahagony from Gibson, and raided their warehouse looking for honduran mahog, because of paperwork issues regarding how Gibson aquired the materials. :oops:


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Thanks for your input TW1987, I agee completely, except, as in the case of the Gib raid, it seems possible that a manufacturer in a knowing yet undocumented way, will utilize restricted wood species to get a product recognized so as to spread a reputation of tone or feel or even speculative controversay. Many of us may have BR and not know it and have something special that is not easily duplicated guitar by guitar.. wow, what babble! But, think of it, build a special run every once and a while for mystique and demand which = sales! Didn't Gib do just that with their "R" series LP's?

P.S. the board smells kind of familiar... Seriously! And, it has a soft smooth feel to it as you bend hard with no drag on the fingers. I think it'sa BR board w/o a birth certificate! (if you will).


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whj wrote:
Thanks for your input TW1987, I agee completely, except, as in the case of the Gib raid, it seems possible that a manufacturer in a knowing yet undocumented way, will utilize restricted wood species to get a product recognized so as to spread a reputation of tone or feel or even speculative controversay. Many of us may have BR and not know it and have something special that is not easily duplicated guitar by guitar.. wow, what babble! But, think of it, build a special run every once and a while for mystique and demand which = sales! Didn't Gib do just that with their "R" series LP's?

P.S. the board smells kind of familiar... Seriously! And, it has a soft smooth feel to it as you bend hard with no drag on the fingers. I think it'sa BR board w/o a birth certificate! (if you will).


Remember this stuff was outlawed in the early/mid 1960s. Any Brazilian Rosewood sold now is very expensive. Therefore, anyone using BR charges a huge premium for it.

With the cost of BR, there is no way that Fender would let that out the door without a "birth certificate". They are not throwing away 100s of dollars just to sneak out a "special run". If they used Brazilian, they would have advertised it and charged accordingly.

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All good points B690. But how do we as consumers account for what Gib did in ~ 2002-3 with the LP "R" series? All of a sudden, LP R owners are writing into the Gib forum asking if their R model has BR... When they bought them, they wern't told and didn't know they had BR until years later... Is Gib covering themselves now because they found a pallet of BR and manufactured it in an unknowingly way?

Ah yes, speculation upon speculation, do I smell chocolate baking?

And I quote feciciously: "I don't often use rosewood my friends, but when I do, I choose BR"! "Stay thirsty my friends."


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Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 9:58 pm
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I don't think that is Brazilian wood... The Brazilian looks a little bit darker I think...


By the way I am from Brazil, and I am new here, I have to say... I am loving this!! :D


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