Pau Ferro fretboards

[arcticsg]

While I was looking for anew Casino, I noticed Epi has replaced the rosewood with Pau Ferro for the fretboards on most their 2019 line.

 

Was just curious when they officially made the swap over from rosewood. Anybody know?

[Col Mustard]

I think Epiphone buys and uses wood according to market swings and trends,

and according to what's available, rather than according to any

"Official Policy."

 

I could be wrong, because I don't speak Chinese.

But its my belief that they keep prices low this way. They make instruments

out of whatever their buyers can find.

 

Epiphone has to be a major player in the 'tropical tonewoodf' boondoggle.

And so are the cabinet makers who supply the burgeoning Chinese middle class.

Market forces probably ebb and flow according to pressures invisible to the

U.S. guitarist, who is trapped in a world of illusion and hype, by our own

"sources" of information.

 

If there was a scarcity or a surplus of East Indian Rosewood on the world market

how would we know? If somebody said so on an internet forum, could we believe

this? (no). If some Brazilian Developers got access to another hundred square miles

of untouched rain forest and clear cut it to sell on the black market, would guitar

makers flock to take advantage? *shrugs

 

The scarcity of Rosewood and Ebony that got Gibson in trouble ten years ago was due

to a coup d'etat in Madagascar, which was never reported in the U.S. news that I ever

heard. (Probably BBC had it) But I don't know everything.

 

I certainly don't. And I don't know why Epiphone guitars are made of different materials

from time to time. But I observe that they are.

[RobinTheHood]

 

The scarcity of Rosewood and Ebony that got Gibson in trouble ten years ago was due

to a coup d'etat in Madagascar, which was never reported in the U.S. news that I ever

heard. (Probably BBC had it) But I don't know everything.

 

 

Woah..I never heard about that! It kind of explains thing a bit.