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Old 05-23-2007, 01:36 AM
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Hey Bp....question about wood choices for fretboards

With all the different wood you guys are using and experimenting with for the bodies on your guitars (those BFR Jp's keep me awake at night, and that koa silo!!!!.........forget it! It's just too nice ), I'm just wondering, and I am just wondering out of sheer curiosity, it's not a moan or complaint or anything, how come you guys never use ebony on your fretboards?

I just really like ebony. Perhaps a LTD run or something. Or is just something youguys aren't in to?

It's not a your guitars would be better if question. I'd probably still love my JP even if the fretboard was made out of MDF. Well, maybe not but you know what I'm saying. I'm not bitching about quality or anything like that. Just a general wonderingment.

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Ebony and maybe inlays made from ivory, cos they would go together in perfect harmony.

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Old 05-23-2007, 04:19 AM
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Ebony and maybe inlays made from ivory, cos they would go together in perfect harmony.

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Old 05-23-2007, 07:34 AM
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Yeah, just what we need : more demand for elephant poaching
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Dizzy you are so sensitive...to elephants that is......Image if you treated women with the same concern!


We used ebony on the 10 bfr 20th bluebursts.

Ebony is a pain in the ass and sometimes doesnt adjust quite as easily and has a reare tendecy to crack and dry....
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So are we for or against Elephant poaching ? I mean any animal we can use to build guitars I'm all for ..If a can tune CoCo the sign-languaging gorilla to 440 ..I'll club it with a baby seal...and spray it coat egyptian smoke...and mount a piezo in its....well enuff said...I'm suiting up..So get back to me Yes/No on the elephant poaching.
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No poaching. I prefer them broiled, with a nice chianti.
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So are we for or against Elephant poaching ? I mean any animal we can use to build guitars I'm all for ..If a can tune CoCo the sign-languaging gorilla to 440 ..I'll club it with a baby seal...and spray it coat egyptian smoke...and mount a piezo in its....well enuff said...I'm suiting up..So get back to me Yes/No on the elephant poaching.
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YOu havent lived until you have had deep fried elephant!!!!YUMMY
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Let me guess. It taste like chicken!!!!
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Dizzy you are so sensitive...to elephants that is......Image if you treated women with the same concern!
Hehe,

I've seen some women that could be mistaken for elephants.

Feel free to poach them and take their teeth !
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ive seen Perth women too Dizzy.
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