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| Author: | Ken Mitchell [ Sat Mar 12, 2011 7:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | What fretboard wood to use w/Bubinga |
A student of mine is building a pomele bubinga back/side 00-sized guitar (with Bearclaw Spruce top), and is considering different woods for his fretboard/bridge/headstock overlay. I've suggested that he use bubinga for those as well (a simple but elegant combo which I think looks super-nice), but he wants something else. Can anyone recommend a wood that would complement bubinga nicely? (I don't particularly like the EIR that he's leaning toward). TIA, |
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| Author: | DennisK [ Sat Mar 12, 2011 8:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What fretboard wood to use w/Bubinga |
Stripey macassar ebony, all the way. |
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| Author: | Ti-Roux [ Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What fretboard wood to use w/Bubinga |
My first choice would be black ebony.. and my second, stripey macassar, like dennis said |
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| Author: | Steve Kinnaird [ Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What fretboard wood to use w/Bubinga |
Wait a minute...I think I just said that myself. In a different post? huh... |
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| Author: | Ken Mitchell [ Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What fretboard wood to use w/Bubinga |
Yeah, sorry @ the double-post... I've got some regular ebony, and some macassar. I'll put those out for him to take a look at. I guess I shoud be happy that I finally (!!!) talked him out of the Purple Heart (!!!#*@!), but I want to keep working on him and his choices. He fell in love with a pretty piece of rosewood, and it will absolutely look great on *some other* guitar, but not on THIS one. That's the hard part for him to accept. Thanks for the ideas! |
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