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Fingerboard wood

Cordite50Cordite50 Frets: 5
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Torrefied / roasted maple is becoming  common on some newer builds for fingerboards and necks. The maple takes on a much deeper colour. Does anyone know whether the same process if applied to laurel would deepen the colour to that approaching a nice piece of rosewood instead of looking a bit pale and insipid ???
Pete
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 74475
    Not after it's been made into a fingerboard.

    You need to stain it.

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  • GSPBASSESGSPBASSES Frets: 2397
    edited March 2022 tFB Trader
    Give Lewis or Andrew a call at DD's, now they're roasting their own wood they may well have already roasted some Laurel.


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  • Cordite50Cordite50 Frets: 5
    Thanks for the advice.
    pete
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