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Post subject: FRetboard changes and future of guitar necks
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 3:22 am
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This is no more than a thought based on other guitar manufacturers.
Martin has been using micarta and rich lite a paper resin synthetic fret board,
Very few of their guitars have rosewood or ebony.
Gibson has taken a turn to using rich lite for certain es 335 and lps.
They started using baked maple when their rosewood fiasco occurred.
I personally have one, don't mind it at all.
That's 2 manufacturers using paper resin synthetic, richlite fretboards.
I wonder if fender will follow suit.
What would look cool is an ash bodied crimson red with a baked maple neck.
However a AVRI would not.

Just wondering others opinions

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Post subject: Re: FRetboard changes and future of guitar necks
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 6:52 am
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bluesstrattone wrote:
This is no more than a thought based on other guitar manufacturers.
Martin has been using micarta and rich lite a paper resin synthetic fret board,
Very few of their guitars have rosewood or ebony.
Gibson has taken a turn to using rich lite for certain es 335 and lps.
They started using baked maple when their rosewood fiasco occurred.
I personally have one, don't mind it at all.
That's 2 manufacturers using paper resin synthetic, richlite fretboards.
I wonder if fender will follow suit.
What would look cool is an ash bodied crimson red with a baked maple neck.
However a AVRI would not.

Just wondering others opinions


I'm REALLY "Old School" on this one. Give me traditional woods, utilized in their traditional states, PERIOD. I hate to see what was/is "high end" instruments being made out of synthetic compounds and what's left of the traditional woods used being subjected to forced processes, all in the name of cost cutting (although they'll proclaim some BS about them "Going Green" as their justification).

Clearly, this is merely IMO where YMMV.

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Post subject: Re: FRetboard changes and future of guitar necks
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 8:43 am
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Maple was a wildly radical fingerboard material in the '40s and '50s. Leo was the first to use it on a stringed instrument.

And phenolic fretboards have been around for a long time. "70s aluminum-neck Kramers had phenolic boards, as did the graphite Steinbergers. Martin started using phenolic boards in the early '80s. You could say they're more traditional than Pao Ferro.


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Post subject: Re: FRetboard changes and future of guitar necks
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:01 am
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Martian wrote:
bluesstrattone wrote:
This is no more than a thought based on other guitar manufacturers.
Martin has been using micarta and rich lite a paper resin synthetic fret board,
Very few of their guitars have rosewood or ebony.
Gibson has taken a turn to using rich lite for certain es 335 and lps.
They started using baked maple when their rosewood fiasco occurred.
I personally have one, don't mind it at all.
That's 2 manufacturers using paper resin synthetic, richlite fretboards.
I wonder if fender will follow suit.
What would look cool is an ash bodied crimson red with a baked maple neck.
However a AVRI would not.

Just wondering others opinions


I'm REALLY "Old School" on this one. Give me traditional woods, utilized in their traditional states, PERIOD. I hate to see what was/is "high end" instruments being made out of synthetic compounds and what's left of the traditional woods used being subjected to forced processes, all in the name of cost cutting (although they'll proclaim some BS about them "Going Green" as their justification).

Clearly, this is merely IMO where YMMV.


I'm in the market for a Martin acoustic electric and want to save
money for it, but this may be a deal breaker for me.
im with you, keep the strat with trad woods. The example of strat
is merely a fsr not for a standard.
My Gibson lp studio has the baked maple, it's wood so it doesn't
bother me, however on a standard or es 335 give me rw.
but synthetics fret boards would make it undesirable.

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Post subject: Re: FRetboard changes and future of guitar necks
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:05 am
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Strayed,
When you mean phenolic boards I take you mean micarta
boards. that's as an offensive material IMO as the Taylor 110
SCREWS on the fingerboard . And still sell for 500-600 crazy

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Post subject: Re: FRetboard changes and future of guitar necks
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:37 am
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The Baked Maple works fine on an SG Std. It's not as fancy looking as some Rosewoods, but some of the Baked Maple does have a nice grain, and color in it. At least it's real wood, and not laminated.

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Post subject: Re: FRetboard changes and future of guitar necks
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:41 am
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Micarta, RichLite, Formica, Bakelite are all similar phenolics -- fibers mixed with phenolic resins. Micarta uses cotton fibers, Rich Lite grinds recyled paper into wood pulp. Taylor may do something weird with it, but Micarta is usually glued on.

I've got a '81 GRD Explorer with a phenolic fretboard. It's like "super ebony" IMO -- I rarely see real ebony that's as nice.


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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:44 am
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I dono, I think a Strat with a mother of toilet seat fretboard would look pretty rad :mrgreen:

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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:54 am
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I'm going to reserve judgement until I've actually played them, but baked maple fretboards sound interesting to me.

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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 10:03 am
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All they do is keep the strings tight really.
For some reason I feel hungry when I hear "Baked Maple"


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