or just play it

Question still is: what's on those high gloss buffed rosewood fingerboard? ...

the answer still is: laquer

I am a rosewood fan and most of my guitars have a rosewood board. I have never seen any finish put on one as think that would defeat the whole purpose of the feel you get playing the neck. But the insistence of the OP has me thinking that maybe they are putting something on them as of now. Well I cant comment till I am sure, but one of us will find the answer shortly.

I really cant believe they've lacquered the board. The real place to look for lacquer is at the sides of the frets. If it is lacquerd that will be the place to show it.

The spec's mention nothing about lacquer and just say;



And



No mention of any lacquer on the fingerboard. Just that the fingerboard has been polished up. I strongly suspect that they've run the rosewood along the buffing heads they'd normaly use for polishing a finished neck, without any lacquer on it.

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No no and no

There is no lacquer on it. The rosewood is very dense, you can see those trademark grains running through it (which are not reflective).

If is slightly reflective though I agree, its super smooth aside from those grains. Which are not filled therefore there is no hard coating.

Its been polished by fine sanding and probably a quick spin on the buffing wheel when the frets got done. There is a video on youtube showing Fender scraping their Rosewood fretboards first with a blade and then using a sanding sponge.

Just compare the lacquer coating on the tuner side of the nut if you want to see what the lacquer looks like on rosewood (totally different).

Tremendous idea. Thats the conclusive proof as to whether its lacquered or not. As an example heres my rosewood boarded strat.



I know its a poor photo, sorry. You can clearly see the difference between the lacquered rosewood on the headstock side of the nut and the tightgrain rosewood of the fingerboard side.

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No no and no

So, it's now a feature to polish the fretboard, which is ancillary to buffing the frets... Same way it's always been done, just add a few more passes over the buffing wheel and call it a "feature". Bold marketing!!!

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