Did Guild ever ebonize rosewood fretboards?

Darryl Hattenhauer

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I don't think I've ever seen it. However, there's a guy in New Zealand who ebonized a maple fretboard. Made it hard to see the black position dots. I asked him why he didn't put in white dots, and he said he couldn't afjord it.
 

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Darryl Hattenhauer said:
I don't think I've ever seen it. However, there's a guy in New Zealand who ebonized a maple fretboard. Made it hard to see the black position dots. I asked him why he didn't put in white dots, and he said he couldn't afjord it.

Would that be Norwegian maple :lol:
 

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guitardude said:
Darryl Hattenhauer said:
I don't think I've ever seen it. However, there's a guy in New Zealand who ebonized a maple fretboard. Made it hard to see the black position dots. I asked him why he didn't put in white dots, and he said he couldn't afjord it.

Would that be Norwegian maple :lol:
Norwegian Wood, Painted Black? :lol:
 

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Darryl Hattenhauer said:
I don't think I've ever seen it. However, there's a guy in New Zealand who ebonized a maple fretboard. Made it hard to see the black position dots. I asked him why he didn't put in white dots, and he said he couldn't afjord it.

I know that joker ... lives just up the road !

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Black dots don't occur naturally in Newsyland. They must be imported, hence the prohibitive cost. I understand there's an open-cast black dot mine somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere. Environmentalists here are very vigorous in their opposition to our only dot-mining operation. They're trying to bring it to a full stop !
 
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