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Originally Posted by Health Freak
I like it better than ebony. Ebony is not very dimensionally stable. That means that while the hardwood neck won't really move much at all, the ebony fretboard will. I'd rather have a material that is not only stable, but doesn't dampen as much as ebony. Plus, it plays faster than ebony and rosewood.
I get the traditionalist thing, but I play my guitars and use them as a tool to make music and don't spend a lot of time thinking about what tradition says I should be using.
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Well put. I can't agree more. When are folks going to start complaining about all that steel and other metals that are part of their guitars? Tuning machines, truss rods, etc.
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