SG Standard Fretboard....

[twon]

Hello Everyone,

 

I scored a great deal on a 2008 SG Standard last week. However, when I got it home I noticed that the fretboard on the Standard is much lighter in color than my Classic? The wood doesn't appear to be dry or anything of that nature. Is this something common on black Gibsons? Do they tend to put lighter pieces of rosewood on them? I've posted a photo below.

 

Thanks

 

[MI_Canuck]

Maybe your Classic somehow ended up with an Ebony board eventhough it's supposed to be Rosewood...

 

Your Standard looks normal - maybe a touch light but not much (nice SG btw! )

 

 

Here's my '98 Standard for comparison - slightly darker, but it's also 10yrs older (finger oil over time I would imagine darkens rosewood)

 

 

 

cheers

[twon]

Thanks man. Great lookin' '98. That makes me curious about the Classic:-k. Nice choice in amp btw. I play though a HRD as well.

[WhiteRaven]

My Epiphone G-400 has a much darker fretboard than my Gibson does, even though they're both rosewood.

 

The fretboard on that classic looks an awful lot like ebony to me, though...

[Tim Plains]

Rosewood varies in colour...as seen in these pics.

As for the Special, you should email the serial number to Gibson and ask if it's ebony.

Great looking guitars you have there!

 

 

[twon]

Thanks Tim. I'm gonna email gibson for sure and see if maybe for some reason they but an ebony board on my classic. I'll post there response.

[Randy1]

Your Standard looks like mine. Your classic sure looks like ebony.

[Ronnie Robinson]

Lemon Oil can greatly darken the wood . Ive al;so just got a Standard 2008 SG which seemed light in colour ( and dry ) lemon oil soon darkened the fret board

[barton fink]

yeah dude mine is like that to. my sg fret bored is lighter and the les paul fret bored is darker check it out

 

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b234/adamprutsok/S7303748.jpg

[guitar_randy]

Hello Everyone' date='

 

I scored a great deal on a 2008 SG Standard last week. However, when I got it home I noticed that the fretboard on the Standard is much lighter in color than my Classic? The wood doesn't appear to be dry or anything of that nature. Is this something common on black Gibsons? Do they tend to put lighter pieces of rosewood on them? I've posted a photo below.

 

Thanks

 

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Looks normal

[Everdying]

the fretboard on my SG classic also looks dark, tho not as dark or as smooth as ebony, ie. still shows the typical rosewood grains.

[TattooedCarrot]

Its really easy to tell ebony from rosewood just by looking at the grain and texture. I doubt that's ebony. More than likely just differences in the rosewood and your standard is probably a littler drier than you realize. I bet if you oil it you'll see they're much closer.