Fretboard Wood?

[Ivan3000]

No, Ric is moving from using Bubinga to Carribean Rosewood.

And, the sample of CR I saw yesterday on a new 4003 looked amazing.

From the pictures I saw, they have really nice figuring.

[andee]

Way back in the early days, there was Brazilian Rosewood, followed by Asian Rosewood, followed by African Rosewood (aka Bubinga). And something else is on it's way.

Hello together,

I currently try to figure out scince when Rickenbacker used "Brazilian Rosewood", scince when they've used "Asian Rosewood" and scince when they've used the "African Rosewood" (aka Bubinga).

I've made a few pics of a Rick made in Nov 1966, Okt 1967 and one of 1994 (Burbinga).

Can you help?


Here are the pics:

1966 Nov

1966 Nov

1966 Nov

1967 Oct

1967 Oct

1967 Oct

1994

1994

1994

[jps]

All of those are Bubinga, Rickenbacker has been using it since the early '60s.

[FabGearHead]

The thing to consider is that rosewood in any species of true "Dalbergia", the scientific name, there will always be variation.
I have cut and handled a great deal of true Brazilian rosewood (Dalbergia Nigra) which was soft brown to ebony dark in color. I have worked with Amazon rosewood, Honduras rosewood, cocobolo rosewood, Indian rosewood and a large number of rosewood like woods from Africa. There just is color and grain variation among all
of the species.

The other thing is to notice that, in a lot of earlier Ricks, the pores in the rosewood were filled with a light color filler prior to being sprayed.
This is very evident in the first pic of the 1966 Rick. If in restoring a Rick guitar or bass, this must be replicated to capture the original look.

Jim

[iiipopes]

No, Ric is moving from using Bubinga to Carribean Rosewood.

Also called "Chechen."

[loverickbass]

So what kind of wood is on the fretboard of my 56 combo?