Rosewood v. Maple Fretboards

im 5'8" and doing just fine

LIESSss

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wanna tussle

Keep growing. If you stop at 5'11", you will end up alone!

its true, I'm 5'11" and widowed

immature. early 20s tho

I'm early 20s as well and I do not condone this statement.

On topic...The past 3 guitars I've owned have had ebony fretboards so I'm impartial to those. Maple v. rosewood is all dependent on guitar tho. I like rosewood on Teles and maple on Strats, rosewood on semi-hollows, etc.

I was going to say that ypu meant "partial", but apparently impartial fair and just to to a disputant.

I mean, if you reword it a bit, impartial would work, but I think you meant partial. You prefer ebony since you're so used to it now.

Whichever feels nicest. Like super slippery satin feel

Ebony wins again! Good, it's settled.

I have a couple of all the common woods (2 maple, 4 or 5 rosewood and 3 ebony I think), I like all of them. I will say my old 70s Greco which has dense and slippery brazilian rosewood (that you can't get anymore because its almost extinct) feels better than indian rosewood. I hate to be THAT guy who says they don't have great wood like they used to but brazillian rosewood is really a nice material that's unlike most of the indian rosewood we have now and yet still unlike ebony. But its a small thing. My tele has a really unusual piece of indian rosewood on it that's really smooth and slippery with a wide swirly grain compared to my other indian rosewood fretboards. Its fast and waxy slick and has some very unusual grain coloring... I often wonder if they got some other wood mixed in with the indian rosewood at fender that month and threw it on the necks anyway. I actually bought that neck basednon how pretty the fretboard looked in the ebay picture and it just happened to be a really great feeling fingerboard totally unlike my SGs for instance that have the short grain, porous feel and dark brown color you will all expect from indian rosewood.

Fingerboard material is probably the last thing I think about when selecting a guitar to record something with though. In feel I am thinking about neck profile and then I am also thinking about the electronics and general resonance of the body for tone. I just don't find that the fingerboard material effects my playing.... the fingerboard radius and neck shape have way more influence on how I approach a part. But when I only had a couple guitars I didn't even think about those factors either and my recordings and shows went fine. This is just a nitpicky detail.

I was going to say that ypu meant "partial", but apparently impartial fair and just to to a disputant.

I mean, if you reword it a bit, impartial would work, but I think you meant partial.

oh god, the angry grammarian returns.... we all understood him, no reason to nitpick his inappropriate antonym... I would like you better if you weren't such a petulant school marm