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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:22 pm
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Well I would say it's darned near unanimous - Fender, you better start stockpiling that maple - LOL


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anybody have a maple fretboard on an acoustic?

I wonder how it would sound with a maple board :roll: Would you be able to then tell the difference in tone with an acoustic.


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Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:22 am
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blues bondsman wrote:
... if maple boards dont have more spank and sparkle than R/W Then I have a very active imagination and so do thousands like me.


Yes, you do, just like all human beings.

You can convince a person in a taste test that a cola is an orange soda by changing its color. You can implant memories in people and they will repeat them as their own. Any cop will tell you that eyewitness accounts are the worst form of evidence.

The truth is, people are hearing with their eyes when they say maple sounds brighter, and many pickup makers and guitar builders have conducted blind listening tests that proved that even experienced guitarists cannot tell the difference between maple and rosewood when they can't see the guitar.

As for guitar makers repeating these myths; well, of course they do. The market demands it. Right now, Fender is telling customers that they are painting certain guitars in nitro "for better resonance," which is complete BS. But customers believe it, so they're happy to tell them what they want to hear.

Just a few weeks ago, I was getting a snack in the kitchen while an old Vince Gill concert was on the TV, and I heard him rip the most ear-bending country solo imaginable... so much snaky snap and twang, it just HAD to be a maple-boarded Tele, right?. I walked out and there he was, playing a rosewood boarded Strat. WITH EMGs.

It's all in how you play it, man. "It ain't the shoes, Mars."


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ThatGuitarGuyAL wrote:
You know breeze, it's funny. I was in my local guitar shop the other day, trying out a few different Telecasters because I've been feeling the need to get one, and every guitar I got handed with a Rosewood fingerboard, I just completely hated, and if I played the same exact guitar with maple, it just FELT so much better.

Until now, I thought I was the only one.

I have a rosewood fretboard on my bass, but considering what that is, and what I paid for it, and how amazing the rest of the guitar feels, I have no problems with that being rosewood.


Same thing happened to me. I tried the new USA standard with a RW neck, and absolutely hated it. Then I tried the maple one and left the shop with a new strat :D

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Thanx for the answers about lemon oil :) Will try both lemon oil and the Ernie Ball conditioner, but I just had her in the shop for a set up for .11's and apparently they cleaned the fretboard for me as well, so I won't have to worry about it for now :)

What products could be recommended for keeping the strings clean and give them a longer lifetime? Or is just a waste of money if strings are changed frequently enough?
I only have one major store to go to and they'll just sell whatever they can so I really appreciate the help


Try Jim Dunlop system 65 string conditioner - little blue bottle. Ace.

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its easy to say tests have been conducted and the results were xxxxx or oooo

show me these test results and who exactly held them, are the test results published ????

I have been a guitar player for just short of 30 years and I gotta say theres one in every crowd, someone who says past ideas and trends are wrong, if it were so then wow, a lot of us have been fooled by our week gullable minds and all these years too.

personaly Maple necks sound better to me, guess I'm just easily swayed by advertising and manipulated by popular misconceptions.


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blues bondsman wrote:
its easy to say tests have been conducted and the results were xxxxx or oooo

show me these test results and who exactly held them, are the test results published ????

I have been a guitar player for just short of 30 years and I gotta say theres one in every crowd, someone who says past ideas and trends are wrong, if it were so then wow, a lot of us have been fooled by our week gullable minds and all these years too.

personaly Maple necks sound better to me, guess I'm just easily swayed by advertising and manipulated by popular misconceptions.


I think there's likely to be a difference, a very very minor one - more likely it's the cables, hardware, amps, effects, conditions of the guitar and all that jazz.

Someone has said before that it makes no difference because the notes come off of the frets not the board, but maybe it has something to do with the fact that the frets are attached to either rosewood or maple.

It makes sense to assume that a glossed neck will sound different to an unglossed, oiled neck - typically rosewood is a softer wood so that may produce the more mellow sounds that some people hear. Who knows. We need a response from Fender themselves to clean up this never-ending dispute!!!

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I also agree that there are many contributing factors in any given tone from any given guitar.

I must say the amp has as much to do with tone as the guitar does.

and well O.K. I'll be big about it and admit I really just like maple necks and again to me they make it a Fender, just spend a minute in any of the mega store catalogs and you will notice a trend, if its got a maple fretboard it is most likely a Fender.

all that being said maple necks are brighter in tone.


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I prefer the look and feel of a maple fretboard. When I think of Fender I think of that lazy Saturday afternoon trip to the beach with guitar and surfboard. The maple look captures the feel of true California style. When I see say a blue or red Fender with a rosewood neck it looks like a toy. Something you'd have sitting around, whereas the look of a white or silver Fender with maple is something you put on display.


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I don't think that it would change the tone of the guitar at all. I have a maple neck Baja Telecaster and an ebony fingerboard on a Fender Strat Ultra. I have heard on Harmony central that ebony fingerboard creates a 'dark' sounding guitar...well it is ebony! I think the flavor of this strat is due to the Lace sensors on the guitar, which make it a little sweeter sounding, without the noise I get on my 1971 Stratocaster. Oh BTW the 1971 has a rosewood fingerboard.

As for the Tele, I think that the Custom '69 pickups give it a great sound. A fingerboard isn't going to make a difference in sound, just in look. It's the pickups that change sounds, and the maple is just another look, and that is for your preference. :P

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There is a difference . The mapple is brighter more crisp where the rosewood is a softer melow tone.

I like both but love SOLID maple necks. (yes they did make maple neck-maple capped fret boards) The solid maple necks seem more acoustic to me...I love the way they feel playing and that solid neck just has a great tone to it.

I feel the original fender tone and sound IS a solid maple neck period.


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Aesthetically I like the look of maple necks on Strats way more. My CS and Clapton Strats are both maple necks and I like the whole idea of a single piece of wood being the neck of the guitar. That being said I have my G&L Legacy with a rosewood board that I tend to play faster and more rock styled stuff.

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I remember back in the 70's there was a maple neck model of Les Paul with a natural body. That was real pretty.

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at one point in time i believed their was a tonal differance but now i believe its look and feel no tone involved

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These days I find it difficult to even consider a non-maple neck strat. Not sure why... perhaps has to do with tradition?


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