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- What is an amaranth fingerboard?
- What is amaranth wood used for?
- What is the best wood for a guitar fretboard?
- What is the difference between a maple fretboard and rosewood?
What is an amaranth fingerboard?
PURPLEHEART (also known as AMARANTH) – the pretty purple wood we've all come to love. Beyond the pretty hue is an extremely stable tone wood for necks and fingerboards. ... It is very hard and is stable when built into a multi-laminate neck, plus it has beautiful brown and black streaks.
What is amaranth wood used for?
Common Uses: Inlays/accent pieces, flooring, furniture, boatbuilding, heavy construction, and a variety of specialty wood items. Comments: Sometimes called Amaranth, this colorful Latin American hardwood is tremendously popular for furniture and other designs that call for a unique splash of color.
What is the best wood for a guitar fretboard?
The Big Three Fretboard Woods
- Ebony. Considered the supreme tonewood for fingerboards due to its solidity, resiliency, and firmness, ebony was the primary fretboard wood in use from the 15th century till very recently. ...
- Rosewood. ...
- Maple. ...
- Indian Laurel. ...
- Ovangkol. ...
- Padauk. ...
- Pau Ferro. ...
- Walnut.
What is the difference between a maple fretboard and rosewood?
The key difference, aside from the look, between maple and rosewood fretboards, is that the whole piece of maple makes up the neck as well as the fretboard, whereas a rosewood fretboard is usually glued on to another piece of wood to make up the neck.
