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Permalink Reply by Slowpaw Steve T on March 13, 2013 at 8:32pm

oops misspelt it.... "Cu$tom $hop"

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Permalink Reply by David McQueen on March 13, 2013 at 1:24am

I found this artical on luthier woods some time ago. Someone else had also posted it on another thread. The long and the short of it is the tone depends more on the luthier than on the wood. The fee received may depend more on the wood than on the luthier.
http://www.guitarnation.com/articles/calkin.htm

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Permalink Reply by Slowpaw Steve T on March 13, 2013 at 8:41pm

The best tonewood comes from the rare  "singing ringing tree"  only found on the higher slopes of a particular Nepalese mountain range, the branches must only be cut in the light of a full moon, and must be used with a nut made from the horn of a rare breed of Yak found on the same slopes...it's expensive!  (-8

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Permalink Reply by Clock The Wolf on March 13, 2013 at 8:43pm

๏_๏ Me want it!

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Permalink Reply by Slowpaw Steve T on March 14, 2013 at 2:53am

...you can have it if you travel there and pay a guide to locate the right slope, tree and Yak...(-:

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Permalink Reply by Graham Alibone on March 15, 2013 at 11:42pm

It is a brilliant wood to work, I like the erotic graining!  The big downside is the smell when working it. And of course you must use female Yak pee to seal and bring out the graining. Happy treking. ;-)

'fingers'

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Permalink Reply by BUGGY (C) on March 14, 2013 at 7:31am

Hi

I have tried many things and the neck does play a part in the sound, try ash

I also have 2 aluminium fretboard guitars and like they way they play as they are dead flat.

Tiny minute differences affect the sound. I have the same strings and tuners on many things and they all sound different.

Facinates me..But I wood (pun) imagine the neck is doing more than the fretboard. Neck material, Nut and Bridge and Pickups tone pots and cap are all Key..

But strangely sometimes you find unexpected goodness from new materials...

It would be an interesting experiment to build 2 the same and have each with different fretboards but everthing else the same.

Most of the frequency resonate from the sound board and people have build paper backed guitars to prove this.

The neck material is good for sustain.. mahogany is good or ash.

I have a full mahogany guitar and its trebbly

A spruce top one is warmer.

Louder and warmer with a rosewood back (hardwood bounces the sound back forward)

I quite like the sound of steel and tin as the resonator materials.

Wood or bone or aluminium nut

A bridge a hardwood bridge with a fret on it better than a bolt bridge for sound..

But it's all personal I am sure...

I prefer a rosewood strat fret board to a maple one, but each is personal I am sure.

Try new things thats what I say and keep us posted..

 

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Rob (Uker) Porras on March 14, 2013 at 9:01am

I can't tell you why it makesa difference but I can definately hear a difference between a strat with a rosewood finger board and a maple fingerboard.

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Permalink Reply by SlowHound on March 14, 2013 at 9:18am

What these guys said...

 

"Once you start agonising over the tone benefits of one fretboard material against another for a cigar box guitar...then you've taken a wrong turn. It's a stick in a box..that's a STICK and a BOX, good people...a stick and a box."

ChickenboneJohn

 

"It's the player that makes all the difference."

Ed (Bad Finger)

 

"custom shop mumbo jumbo"

jabes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Kevin M. Kraft on March 15, 2013 at 12:29am

Since many aspects of a CBG define its sound, unless you made a number of  CBGs identical, except for the kind of wood the fretboard is made of--and that might not even be reliable, it'd be almost impossible to tell any difference.

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Permalink Reply by David McQueen on March 15, 2013 at 2:07am

I think the closest you would get to the "Identical" part would be to make a CBG with a bolt on neck and then change necks. I don't know about you, but if I make two identically, they still are not identical. And that is not a bad thing.

Would it be worth the trouble. I don't think so.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on March 16, 2013 at 12:31pm

Fretboard wood is where you put your fingers. It should ideally be incredibly greasy, so that you can play faster. You can make even the cheapest fretboard wood extremely greasy by rubbing it with salami or summer sausage. The differences in tone will only be apparent after many sausages are tried, which is likely to make you hungry. All that fatty goodness will however soak into your fretboard, and lubricate your playing. If you play slide, you will feel like you are on ice. Any fretboard wood will do, because it just doesn't matter; the key to great tone is selecting the right type of sausage. Wieners, Vienna sausages, and especially Kosher franks have a detrimental effect on your tone. Boiling them does not help. Many people pay lots of money for special deli sausages, but these too are a simple waste of time, unless you are having a picnic.

Strings, however...now that's where things can get interesting...>:-E

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