I keep reading about 'Brazilian' fingerboards?

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GPCarpenter

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What's the deal with brazilian boards. Is it that much better than other rosewoods and if so how can you tell the difference?
 
brazillian rosewood is supposed to be tighter-grained and thus smoother for bending/vibrato. sonically there's probably very little difference as opposed to indian rosewood (most commonly used rosewood) and supposedly even less of a difference as opposed to madagascan rosewood.

to tell the difference is kind of hard if you don't know from model/year/factory specs... some say they can smell brazillian rosewood but i'm going to call bs on that.
 
if you have seen enough guitars braz is obvious...

looks like this...

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notice how tight the grain is ..its almost like ebony, and of course the exquisite patina and patterning...
 
Not to mention thats a hard to find wood these days...
I know that cause i live in Brazil and even here jacarand? (braz rosewood) is not that easy to find... And when you find, wow, what a price!!! :eek:
Another thing I know is that this wood had the cut forbiden here in the middle of the 70?s, so....
As I sad, I still can find, nut since its an old stock, its quite expensive....

Hope it helps


Emil
 

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