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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:35 am
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This is my first post on this forum. I've very much enjoyed browsing but now I'm going to add my two cents. With a maple fingerboard, the notes really snap off it whereas the rosewood fingerboard offers a far more mellow proposition to my ear. I own both kinds as they both have their advantages but I'd say I probably prefer maple myself. It is of course fully subjective.
I saw someone mention Jimi Hendrix. As far as I know, he preferred rosewood fingerboards for tone (which he used in the studio) but he used maple fingerboards when performing because he preferred its appearance.


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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:24 pm
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It's definitely a matter of personal preference, but for me, my VG Strat has rosewood, and I love the way it feels and the tone it makes. In fact, when I play a maple fingerboard I always have this weird feeling like something's missing. "There should be another strip of wood here," as if they forgot the fingerboard and tacked the frets right onto the top of the neck piece. :lol:

But lots of players prefer the sound and feel of playing on top of that maple stick, so go figure.


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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:18 pm
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Rosewood is really good after my choice, but i also use maple so i like them both


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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:42 pm
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Hay!im new to the boards two.i do not know if their is any prows or cons to the diffrent types of woods.personly i like the way rosewood looks on an eletric guitar. does yours have the humbucker for the brige.Oh yah I just the standerd strat w/rosewood and the humbucker in midnight wine. Ilove it :D



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I have guitars with both rosewood and maple necks. I find the rosewood to be a warmer sound while the maple is a bit brighter. I got my new 08 Strat with the maple and I like it very much.


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I think they both have their place. I prefer vintage tinted maple on strats and rosewood on select teles, but I'm not sure about the tone factor at all. I've got a guitar with rosewood and one with maple. The one with rosewood had a darker tone than the one with maple and they both have a strat pickup in the middle, but the one with the rosewood had an aldar body, while the maple neck had poplar. The aldar is much heavier than the poplar, so that has an effect on sound, but what about the fingerboard? Maybe you guys are comparing ash bodies with aldar bodies or something, maybe you guys are right. I don't know, but until I can test two identical guitars with the different fret boards I'm saying that the tone this is just another guitar myth.

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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:59 am
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I prefer a maple because it looks better and feels better in my hand...
However i don't think there is much difference in sound at all.
How many of you actualy exchange necks on the same guitar to claim
that sound is better?
Probably none...It's all what each of us prefer.....
Sound is all about a whole guitar in my opinion


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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:17 am
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Maple for the tone and feel.


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I tend to agree with Crazymandolinist that is probably a comparison of the body composition as far as tone goes.

However it might just be a "state-of-mind" type issue where a person is subjective to one or the other and "plays" or "sounds" better than the other option.

Personal I like the look and feel of the maple but own both.

Why limit oneself to one option. An excuse to pick up that new American standard with a rosewood so I even out the collection with regards to the necks :D


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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:37 am
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I tend to prefer rosewood necks on Strats and maple necks on Teles.


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lostindesert wrote:
Guitar_Hurricane wrote:
I prefer rosewood on any guitar, but there is only one guitar that should have maple in my opinion and that's a telecaster, a tele should be thin sounding anyway, at least to my taste. When I look at a telecaster I see twang, nothing else.

You should be able to cut a tree down with the bridge pickup on a tele.


A good Tele doesn't sound 'thin', it sounds sharp and full of bass even
on the bridge PU.
Jimi Hendrix used maple necks, no thin sounds there. David Gilmour
also used maple necks, Eric Johnson !
I agree with the maple neck on the Tele, it just looks right.

Peter


Most of the guitars played by Hendrix had a rosewood fingerboard, expecially before 1968, because simply maple rosewoods weren't available.

On the other side, SRV played a pao ferro fingerboard, Beck preferred rosewood, as well as Blackmore and Knopfler.

Yngwie says that usually plays a maple neck because it looks better with a white guitar.

Personally, I prefer rosewood, maple fingerboard, expecially vintage, are lacquered and this can create difficulties, anyway if the neck is scalloped there isn't this problem at all.


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My Strats maple with a low action and I love it, I do have guitars with rosewood and they are nice too but when I go back to the maple strat it seems almost effortless to play, fingers just glide up and down the fb but on the rosewood I feel I do have to work at it a bit harder.

Could just be me or other factors, diff strings etc... but you will not be disapointed with maple in my opinion.


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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:18 pm
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no diff in my opinion


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secretsoundz wrote:
I tend to prefer rosewood necks on Strats and maple necks on Teles.

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I have found that I tend to be a little faster on the rosewood.


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