Lungimsam Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 Are they stained brown, or is the color they come in their natural color? And why so many variations in tone? From experience, the color stays the same whethter I oil it up or not. Never gets darker or lightwer. I can go a year with my pbass board with no treatment, and the thing is still almost black. QWhile, mt SG board always stays light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNylon Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 I would think there is some type of a light oil applied to it to prevent drying out while in the case until purchased. I don't think it's stained though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilpanda Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 I believe the brown is their natural color. and like what gsgbass said the oil is just to prevent drying of the fretboard while waiting to be purchased. here, I found this on a lumber site...a freshly cut rosewood tree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNylon Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 Great photo of the natural rosewood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dem00n Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 Only Ebony is stained. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNylon Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 After seeing the photo of the cut of the tree, I would probably change my vote to it comes that way from the tree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNylon Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 They stain ebony? Cool, had no idea about ebony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lungimsam Posted November 27, 2010 Author Share Posted November 27, 2010 Nice tree pic. That explains it. Looks just like the fingerboard colors. I guess the color depends on whatever length of the tree you got for your board - darker or lighter. @gsgbass - I have had ebony users tell me that the stain comes off on their fingers when the guitar is new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNylon Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 I get that with a new SG as well.(rosewood). I'm not sure if it's from the oils in the fretboard or from the new strings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNylon Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 After about a month, the dark substance isn't anywhere near as much if at all on my finger tips, from the SG Std. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L5Larry Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 No. "Quality" rosewood and ebony as used on high-end guitars is NOT stained OR oiled. Both woods contain "natural" oils, and do not necessarily require "treatment". I've got 50-70 year old guitars and the only thing that has touched the rosewood fingerboards are my greasy little hands and the strings. They look and feel just like they did when new, maybe even better. Now the operative word here is "quality" woods. The sources of these woods is completely different today than it used to be, thanks to the tree-huggers and rain forest protectionists. There was a reason that Brazilian rosewood was so sought after as a guitar wood, and as we know is no longer available. The exotic woods used today in guitar construction are from secondary (or second rate) sources. They vary greatly in density, color, and grain due to where and how they are grown, and the BEST woods are no longer available. The currently available rosewood looks nothing like the rosewood on my 1947 L-7, or my 1960 Stratocaster, and in fact from the guitars I own from 1947 to 2000 you can see the rosewood getting gradually lighter in color, and I've seen even lighter (in color) rosewood boards on store rack guitars. Therefore it would not surprise me in the least to find out that some of these have to be stained to resemble what is generally accepted in appearance. Here's a photo I put together for a previous discussion here on these boards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNylon Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 I noticed over the years when Smith & Wesson used rosewood for some of their wooden grips on the large N-Frame revolvers. Lighter woods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaolee Posted November 28, 2010 Share Posted November 28, 2010 Nice tree pic. That explains it. Looks just like the fingerboard colors. I guess the color depends on whatever length of the tree you got for your board - darker or lighter. @gsgbass - I have had ebony users tell me that the stain comes off on their fingers when the guitar is new. I have had mahogany turn my fingers purple when working the wood. I doubt ebony is stained, but whatever chemicals naturally occur in the wood may react to some people's fingers like raw mahogany reacted with my fingers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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