Baked Maple...

[leopoldbloom]

Is it just me thinking: Baked maple - what a waste of fine work on a Les Paul.

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[Alex Sheeny]

i played some baked maples a while ago. sounded okay, but the looks is just terrible IMO. It's a desperate measure from the company, i wouldn't expect it to be a fine work. but i guess lots of folks are already buying and being happy with it, so...

[Les Paul Lover]

From a style point of view it works a lot better on some body colours than other.

The material itself is absolutely fine and nice to play, but Ive seen fretboard colours varying a lot - from blond to rosewood like.

The lighter shade of baked maple can work very well with black or white guitars, but seem to look out of place on most other guitars, especially if red or burst of some sort.

[jason41224]

yeah it's mainly a looks issue. apparently they feel/sound a lot like ebony. if you can just get a dark enough board, and then lemon oil it, you're good to go.

[Jondog]

I don't understand the whole rosewood issue. There are other species of rosewood that don't come from the Madagascar forest.

[jason41224]

yeah, like india...oh wait. their stocks of indian rosewood were raided in a seperate, previous incident.

it's the pattern of the government stepping in and taking their stocks that's got them resorting to woods like baked maple. like the old saying goes, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me, and there isn't going to be a third time...

[Randy Bass]

Hopefully everyone who works at the Gibson factory has a CWP.

[sidvicious]

baking the maple sounds a tad erotic.

[Jondog]

Build the fingerboards in Canada. Not illegal here.

[OU818]

baking the maple sounds a tad erotic.

It certainly gives me wood!

[Alex Sheeny]

I don't understand the whole rosewood issue. There are other species of rosewood that don't come from the Madagascar forest.

Maybe there aren't any with the price they would get it from Madagascar. This whole "new" Gibson administration it's pretty weird, seems to me that sometimes their business is going through a wrong direction. like that they're focusing on a larger consumer range than the older loyal ones... maybe it's for the best of the company financial health, but for me that's just sad.

[Dark Helmet]

feels like ebony, (mine) looks like Rosewood...




every board is different, and I haven't oiled mine yet either.

[Jondog]

Epiphone still uses rosewood

[OU818]

I really like those Classics.

[savage8190]

You guys seen the SG Standard with p90's? Only 999, what a steal...its maple board though.