How To Darken Your Rosewood Fretboard part 3

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[xxgdkxx]

mother of pearl (mop) is white with a greenish purple rainbow-like reflectiveness to it. what most production guitars, like ibanez, jackson, gibson, ect have is abalone, which is all white. it doesnt mean that mop is so crazy expensive only super high end guitars have it, but abalone is the standard. unless you put after market stickers on, i dont know of any guitar that comes with "decals" as you say

[brib333]

@xxgdkxx

You actually think it is an abalone "stone"? It a fuck thin peiece of abalone glued into the cut in the wood. A VERY thin hole. Its not a peice of Mother of Pearl.MOP Is a little expencieve. You can actually go in there with a razorblade and peel up the cheap abolone. I described them like " decales".

[wlindenlaub]

@brib333 I wanted to thank you for this video. It definately is an improvement over the rosewood look. I've owned a few Jackson guitars and even the low end Jacksons have actual inlays cut into the fretboard. I believe the difference is between immitation mother of pearl and real mother of pearl. Mother of pearl and abalone are both transluscent, but abalone looks alot different and is not a stone. Its sort of like a giant clam or shell fish thing. I've caught a few when I was younger.

[brib333]

@wlindenlaub Wow this is very new to me. I thout abalone was MADE like plastic.thank you

[symphx1]

do you get stain on fingers when playing, ie. does it wear off?

[brib333]

@DarthNigg

Cause it looks nicer and I got nothing better to do with my fucking time. I dont like the look of rose wood as much a ebony so I stained it. Is there something wrong with that. Got any other comlants?

[xxmanx1]

Thanks for posting! I used the stew mac dye, but it gets on the binding and stains it immediatly...but this stuff looks like it does not afftect the binding...gotta try it!

[godlikecharacta]

this didn't darken my board maybe it's too oily. Ill try something i've used before again from stewmac. some ebony stain thing.

[vladm1994]

SHORTEST STRAW HAS BEEN PULLED FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wlindenlaub]

@brib333 I wanted to thank you for this video. It definately is an improvement over the rosewood look. I've owned a few Jackson guitars and even the low end Jacksons have actual inlays cut into the fretboard. I believe the difference is between immitation mother of pearl and real mother of pearl. Mother of pearl and abalone are both transluscent, but abalone looks alot different and is not a stone. Its sort of like a giant clam or shell fish thing. I've caught a few when I was younger.

[O0Salmon0O]

@xxgdkxx Abalone and Mother of Pearl are part of a shell as in seashell by the seashore. It is not rock or stone. There is also a simulated pearl material called pearloid used in some guitar parts.

[O0Salmon0O]

@DarthNigg The fretboard wood has only a very subtle influence on tone. Tone is mainly influenced by the guitar's pickups and the amplifier. A guitar like the one in the video is typically played with so much distortion the fretboard wood's effect on tone is moot. The particular wood used or the alteration of it is all about aesthetics and has absolutely nothing to do with tone.

[xxgdkxx]

@brib333 ok not to get into a youtube comment war but... i decided to actually see for myself instead of just thinking im right so, i cut up an old ibanez grg 170dx neck with sharktooth inlays (one of the lowest priced guitars ibanez sells) that i use to hang my guitar bodies when refinishing them, and yes the inlays are actual stone, it chipped a lot when i was trying to get it out, theyre glued in tight as hell (you dont normally want to remove them eh?) and id say its about 2 to 4 mm thick

[brib333]

@arr4gtr

Really, very cool.