Ebony fingerboards
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Guys,
Perhaps you might like to self edit this one. I'm not locking but would appreciate cooler heads for a bit?
Perhaps you might like to self edit this one. I'm not locking but would appreciate cooler heads for a bit?
Re: Ebony fingerboards
As always we will let people express their opinion but any offensive comments will be edited.
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My Gretsch Tenny has a dyed ebony fingerboard. When I first bought the guitar it needed a lot of work, and some rockabilly guy had worn a crater into the original rosewood fingerboard playing hillbilly riffs, down by the open "E" first position; I had the choice of having the rosewood fingerboard filled, or replaced. I chose to have the fingerboard replaced with ebony. The luthier ordered a few planks of ebony, and let me view and select the piece I wanted. While doing so, he explained that although already dark, the ebony would be dyed for the ultra-dark, familiar ebony color. He also mentioned that the practiced was fairly common.
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I have a stratocaster with an ebony fretboard that I love and so far it has stood up.
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I have a plank of ebony I found in the stomach of a Dolphin I snared that I use to club baby seals with, works great!
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Is there enough weight in the plank to carve out a harpoon for me for next whale season?whojamfan wrote:I have a plank of ebony I found in the stomach of a Dolphin I snared that I use to club baby seals with, works great!
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Spoken like the true consumers most people are. Yep...use everything up till there is no more. The very notion that there is not an infinite amount of resources in the world must be some left wing conspiracy...
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Can I have the leftovers after you carve your harpoon? I'd like to make an ebony fork to use when eating Veal.antipodean wrote:Is there enough weight in the plank to carve out a harpoon for me for next whale season?
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I don't think Mike really clubs seals in his spare time (though you can never be sure), and I actually gave up whaling a few years back after reading "Moby Dick".... I decided to take up thylacine hunting instead.aceonbass wrote:Spoken like the true consumers most people are. Yep...use everything up till there is no more. The very notion that there is not an infinite amount of resources in the world must be some left wing conspiracy...
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Grey wrote:Can I have the leftovers after you carve your harpoon? I'd like to make an ebony fork to use when eating Veal.antipodean wrote:Is there enough weight in the plank to carve out a harpoon for me for next whale season?
Can I have the leather from the leftovers of your veal cow? I'm gonna make a sweet strap for my solid ebony bass with blood diamond inlays on the fretboard.