The ebony fretboard guitar picture thread...

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iblive said:
I’ve read articles by Taylor on Ebony and the dwindling resources. Taylor is doing its part to preserve this natural resource as best they can. Previously there was so much waste due to manufactures only using that part of the tree that was “perfect.” Throw the rest in the fireplace. Along comes Taylor and they’re using as much of the tree as humanly possible. Therefore, “imperfect” looking Ebony on our guitars. Same wood. Same feel. Same sound. Just not completely black.... which for the few that may be uninformed. Many of the manufactures were dying the wood to get that completely black color anyway. And yes. As Chas says.... adds character.
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Godin guitars is using Richlite on many of their guitars, to reduce their footprint, it is much like Ebony and is strong plus you get good tones.
 
Richlite is a paper product handmade from many layers of high quality custom craft paper. Composed of 65% recycled paper content and 35% phenolic resin. the colour comes from combination of paper and resin. Its more expensive to use Richlite over Ebony. Richlite is Superior to Ebony.
 
Col Mustard said:
hah! mine looks like I need to oil it again. But it looks lighter and stripier in
that sunbeam, which is why I set it there for the picture. I'll treat it with some
fret doctor next string change.
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Hmmmm....I picked out the slabs of ebony we used on my necks....I insisted on deep black with very little grain and no patterns....

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Even the rosewood board on Von Herndon #1 is super dark when compared to most ebony boards:

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Nice looking pieces shreddy. The foosball table brings back college memories, we had one in the basement of our fraternity house.

Also, that 45 spindle is killer! I have 2 red ones. When we get younger kids over, I have them try to guess what it is...
 
It was funny Don O. I went to the record shop and asked if she had one. Nope, no luck. She had other styles for sale but not that one. She wondered why I was so picky.

I told her the other style are not what I remembered as a kid and would look silly on my guitar , She said she had one in the back and didn't charge me for it.

She liked the concept on the guitar.
 
My '91 Gibson SG Special came with a lovely ebony fret board. No recent pics of it yet but you can see in my avatar and signature. My other guitar is an 1989 Yamaha RGX Custom with a beautiful ebony FB with real crystal inlays and Jim Dunlop jumbo frets. I paid over $2,000 for the guitar not including the hard shell case brand new back then.

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