Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

C'mon Matt, calm down and relax, please! The woods RIC uses/switches to will always be high quality choices that will be environmentally friendly. John has given a more than fair explanation, which he is not obligated to do. I'm hoping to soon get a first hand look at the new wood, which I also like.

Slightly off topic, but, do you guys think instruments will have to come with some kind of documentation identifying the individual instrument by serial # and woods used?

Good question; perhaps. Might make sense for a manufacturer to integrate those into their serial number coding.

That sounds like an awful lot to cram onto a 330 jackplate!!!

rickendelic wrote:Slightly off topic, but, do you guys think instruments will have to come with some kind of documentation identifying the individual instrument by serial # and woods used?

It won't be possible for a manufacturer to provide the documentation because each country has its own set of requirements for entry of such products. Oddly enough, even the EC has different requirements that vary between member country. Italy is one of the most stringent, for instance, requiring specific documents at each entry while the U.K. only requests them infrequently.

What boggles my mind is the fact that we have been using it since early September, and until it was pointed out in a video, nobody had noticed it (even then it took over a week to come up in a thread). Given the minutia in this forum, I would have thought it would have been spotted right away. We have used CR on thousands of guitars by now, not a single of it mention until now...

This wood finishes very well and is no more difficult to machine than bubinga. It also tends to be way more figured than bubinga and very exotic looking. By the way, if you can tell the difference in sound, you're probably an owl!

Thanks to John and Ben Hall, I was able to get some pictures of the new fingerboards today. Believe me, they look much better than the limitations of my lousy photography, when seen in person. Paulie was with me. He can vouch for that. After seeing the new fingerboards, what's not to love about them?

I can vouch for the beauty of the CR fretboards; the variation and figuring in the grain patterns is quite striking!

That is some nice figuring!
For all of the people who like the look of the bubinga, is there a way to simply stain the board, or maybe get the colour closer to the colour of bubinga? That wold solve alot of problems for some people.
Personally I don't mind either way.

I doubt that's feasible. In a factory setting, one doesn't just grab a can of strain and a brush. It would be a whole other step in the production process; work space, new materials, someone trained to apply the stain. A reliable supply that doesn't react with the UV. . . et cetera.

OMG! Those are fretboards are gorgeous! Can I send in a few of my bubinga based instruments to get redone in Caribbean rosewood???

IvanMunoz wrote:For all of the people who like the look of the bubinga, is there a way to simply stain the board, or maybe get the colour closer to the colour of bubinga?

Which color of bubinga? I've seen bubinga fretboards on Rics that range from a pinkish rose, to brown, to a deep burnt sienna and everything in between. I imagine there will be some variations to the Caribbean rosewood boards as well, so I fail to see the big deal here.

Clint wrote:

IvanMunoz wrote:For all of the people who like the look of the bubinga, is there a way to simply stain the board, or maybe get the colour closer to the colour of bubinga?

Which color of bubinga? I've seen bubinga fretboards on Rics that range from a pinkish rose, to brown, to a deep burnt sienna and everything in between. I imagine there will be some variations to the Caribbean rosewood boards as well, so I fail to see the big deal here.

Amen!

After seeing all of the beautiful Caribbean Rosewood fingerboards yesterday at RIC, if any or all of my Ricks went through The Twilight Zone for Christmas and magically had Caribbean Rosewood fingerboards on them, believe me I wouldn't be complaining,

rickenbrother wrote:After seeing all of the beautiful Caribbean Rosewood fingerboards yesterday at RIC, if any or all of my Ricks went through The Twilight Zone for Christmas and magically had Caribbean Rosewood fingerboards on them, believe me I wouldn't be complaining,

+1 Caribbean rosewood looks great indeed, Joey! I'd hand my 360 in for a swap as well!