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Basically the only difference is the feel and the tone. Maple fretboards have a more soft feel and have a brighter and more edgy sound. If you have a rosewood fretboard, the sound will be a little more mellow and have more of a harder feel on your fingers.
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What is the Les Paul made of?
Mahogany, maple and the fretboard has rosewood too.
Which is brighter sounding a maple fretboard or an ebony fretboard?
I say maple. All the guitars ive had have a maple fretboard and i love the sound
Does rosewood or maple have a warmer toneon a guitar neck?
rosewood
What is the bouzouki made from?
The bouzouki is traditionally made from wood, such as maple, walnut, or mahogany. The soundboard is typically made from spruce or cedar, and the fretboard is usually made from ebony or rosewood. Strings are made from steel or other metal alloys.
What is a thunderbird bass made of?
This guitar is made mainly out of wood which is glued together. The Thunderbird bass is designed concurrently with the neck through which is made out of maple or mahogany wood. The body is made from mahogany wood while the fretboard is made from rosewood or ebony.
What wood is used in Chinese guitars?
Varies from Body woods as Agathis ,Mahagony or NATO (Eastern Mahagony) or Ash and Neck Woods like Maple or Mahagony and Fretboard woods like Ebony or Rosewood. Woods in Chinese Guitars do not have to be necessarily bad.
Is a maple neck or rosewood neck better on guitar?
It's a personal thing really. Some may prefer the looks, sounds, and feel of a rosewood neck/fingerboard and other may prefer maple. You do mean necks and not fingerboards right? Rosewood necks are very expensive.
What were the fender jazz and precision basses made of?
ash or alder body with hard rock maple neck with maple or rosewood fingerboard
What a viola is made of?
a viola is made from spruce, maple and ebony or rosewood.
What was the guitar inventors reason for choosing rosewood to make the guitar?
Guitar necks and fingerboards are generally made out of rosewood because it is harder wearing than maple.
What is made out of a violin?
Spruce for the top, maple for the ribs and back. The fingerboard is usually ebony or rosewood, and the tailpiece and pegs and chinrest can be ebony, rosewood or boxwood.
What does rn and rw mean with fender guitars?
RN = Rosewood neck (I'm assuming RW also equates to Rosewood) The alternative is MN which signifies a Maple Neck
