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Post subject: Baked Maple necks?
Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 4:21 am
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Saw this gorgeous bowling ball Strat at the Summer NAMM 2013 Show's Facebook page:

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This Jason Smith creation features a heavily figured baked maple neck! :o

Baked maple is generally a specialty of boutique makers such as Sadowsky, Music Man and Suhr.

Now it's Fender's turn to offer their guitars with baked maple necks.

So I've a question to tell: It's the first time Fender bakes maple or they already did baked maple necks in the past?


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Post subject: Re: Baked Maple necks?
Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 9:00 am
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Gibson s been doing it for a little while now but it's the first time I've heard of it on a fender.


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Post subject: Re: Baked Maple necks?
Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 9:24 am
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Cool, its usually the players that are baked.
Fender doesn't do the summer NAMM show anymore, do they?

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Post subject: Re: Baked Maple necks?
Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 10:36 am
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Now, thanks to Jason I'm GASsing for a signature Blackie with a baked maple Clapton neck! :twisted:

I guess Eric would pick his last personal acquisition with that baked maple neck before definitely retiring off the road in 2015!

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ZZDoc, how do you think? :idea:


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Post subject: Re: Baked Maple necks?
Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 12:43 pm
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chromeface wrote:
Now, thanks to Jason I'm GASsing for a signature Blackie with a baked maple Clapton neck! :twisted:

I guess Eric would pick his last personal acquisition with that baked maple neck before definitely retiring off the road in 2015!

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ZZDoc, how do you think? :idea:

Why would he ?


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Post subject: Re: Baked Maple necks?
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2013 8:33 pm
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Thanks for posting those pics, chromeface.

They are very interesting necks.

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Post subject: Re: Baked Maple necks?
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 12:00 pm
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Yep, indeed! :)


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Post subject: Re: Baked Maple necks?
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 5:07 pm
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What is the difference between baked maple and regular maple?


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Post subject: Re: Baked Maple necks?
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 2:11 am
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Apparently Gibson introduced the baked maple fretboard as a response to the rosewood crisis:

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If you're not aware of Gibson's trouble to source rosewood, it all stems from two Federal Armed Customs Agent Raids on Gibson factories, and a huge court case against Gibson in the US, Gibson, had a majority of its Rosewood stock seized from its factory, Authorities and experts both have called the Madagascar wood trade the “equivalent of Africa’s blood diamonds.
But as the page informs you, this isn’t only a hot issue for guitar manufacturers, but collectors as well:

What is Baked Maple?
Gibson needed to find a solution to continue manufacturing and production. Hence.... Baked Maple was revived. It was also previously by Gibson in the late 70's for fretboard material on select models. Baked Maple starts off its life the regular maple fingerboards that you often see on Fender guitars (or on the Gibson Firebird X) The whole process results in a maple fingerboard that looks a lot closer to Rosewood or Pau Ferro than unprocessed Maple.

"Baked" maple has been baked in an oven at 200-300 degrees for a period of time. This process is called "torrification," and it makes the wood very hard, live sounding, and stable. It is not a chemical process, and is environmentally friendly. According to Gibson, the baked maple they use for fingerboards has the sound of ebony with the look of medium-brown pau ferro.


Methinks Fender followed soon after. :roll:


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