Musicman20 Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 https://www.talkbass.com/threads/sandberg-guitars-innovates-new-steamed-oak-fingerboard.1290814/ Interesting.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bass_Guardian Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Looks nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40hz Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 That's quite clever. Well done Sandberg! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sibob Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Meh, just looks like washed-out/dry rosewood......give me Pau Ferro as an alternative any day....or increasingly I'm loving roasted maple (visually anyway). Fair play to Sandberg for looking at sustainable alternatives though. Si Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Luc Pickguard Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Steamed Oak? for some reason this came to mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDUIGvpDolw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris2112 Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 We'll see plenty of this sort of thing, I'm sure. Builders are going to have to start being clever with their woods now that the Indian rosewood is on lockdown. I expect pau ferro will become very popular as it's not that far from the rosewoods we know and love. Other woods like jatoba, locust and chechen will come to the fore as they're already used in building on a much smaller scale. One thing that does make me chuckle is the amount of dodgy looking ebony out there at the moment. I recall reading an interview with Phillip Kubicki where he talked about the difficulty he had in getting clean Gabon ebony blanks for his Ex Factor basses. This was like, 30 years ago. Now, IIRC Taylor own most of the world's Gabon ebony stock and they sell at a high price, leading to companies like Kiesel putting marketing spin to work on things like 'tiger stripe ebony' etc. Basically, all the off-colour and impure blanks that wouldn't have made the grade a few years ago on the open market! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeFRC Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 There's a video here about why Taylor decided to switch the market to stripy ebony - worth a watch - I think I can support them on the move I think it's this one but wife is asleep so can't make noise https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=anCGvfsBoFY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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