Maple vs Rosewood

[boingoman]

Wash them! Wash your hands ahaha fretboards really don't get grungy strings do i hate doing that. At least there is no barbeque chicken with that beer cause then you'd be in trouble

That's what the moisture on the beer can does- loosens up the BBQ sauce. A quick wipe on the jeans and I'm ready to rock.

Really, I have to be so careful. Something about my skin just eats strings. If I don't wipe them after I play they will rust to pieces in a couple of days- literally. The same with my neck. If I don't wipe it, in a week it will be unplayable due to mungular build-up.

 

[Thorguitarist]

i got one of those Fender polish clothes i just run that down the string collect the dirt and then strum away. The dirt build-up on my strings is horrible also. New string will be for a week and then they are black as night... Ughhh whatta gonna do thoug

 

[Light]

...fretboards really don't get grungy...

Wanna bet?

I have seen some fingerboards which are just disgusting. Crud built up almost to the level of the frets (what fret was still there). Yuck.


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[Thorguitarist]

Rosewood gets kinda grungy, my maple neck is finished so dirt really doesnt cling to it. Although the guy down the street has those black finger marks on his fretboard from playing it's a unfinished maple neck.

 

[ibanezrocks]

rosewood gets dirty

my fretboards tend to get dirty really fast (mostly because I play so much) but it wipes off pretty easily so i dont see how that could change your mind from one to the other.

 

[darrin_h2000]

I like a good ebony fingerboard...but Ive had plenty maples and like them too.

 

[SEDstar]

i gotta throw one more in the mix

rosewood, maple, rosewood, maple.....

i knew a guitarist who would change his own strat neck...he was no luthier, but he would change his own neck. Then he came around, and yanked out his favorite strat, and we busted out laughing...it looked like cheap black plastic. We were like "what the hell..." I believe it was carbon fiber? like was popular for Steinbergen bass's and 6 strings some metal dudes liked in the 80's? they were the ones with "no body"...body was not much taller than the fretboard , and not much longer than needed for the moved around controls and the pickups. Anyhoo, he loved the thing. Just a thought. Ive seen such necks going for reasonable money.

He SWORE it wasnt affected by ambient humidity and that he should be able to dunk the neck in water, let it air dry, and it wouldn't affect his tuning.