How much lighter is roasted maple

[Cederick]

Question in the title

I was thinking of making my next build as light as possible. Roasted maple + basswood body would be pretty light.

Is ebony heavier than rosewood? I want a black fretboard but maybe I could just get a rosewood one and stain it black or something.

 

[mayfly]

I've got two roasted maple necks and 4 'regular' maple necks.  They are about the same weight.  IME tuners make more of a difference.

Ebony is typically heavier than maple, but I have no ebony necks to back up that assertion.

 

[Cederick]

Ok, might look into any light weight tuners maybe. Hehe. It's going to be a Floyd Rose guitar so it might be a bit heavy just because of that anyway.

I didn't mean a complete ebony neck, just fretboard  :toothy11:

 

[Day-mun]

You might like this thread on light tuners:  http://unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=25648.0

 

[Cederick]

You might like this thread on light tuners:  http://unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=25648.0

Now I'm being picky here but I don't like the way they look. And I'm not talking about the backside of the headstock, but because they don't seem to come in actual black, just that "cosmo black". And they are expensive as hell too (regular black gotoh tuners are almost 1/3 of that price)

 

[rgraf]

Question in the title

I was thinking of making my next build as light as possible. Roasted maple + basswood body would be pretty light.

Is ebony heavier than rosewood? I want a black fretboard but maybe I could just get a rosewood one and stain it black or something.

Most ebonies are heavier than most rosewoods. However, mpingo is the first wood referred to as an ebony (mozambique ebony), even though it is a rosewood, and is much heavier than an ebony like persimmon. Staining rosewood black is called ebonizing, and has been used by gibson in the past, I believe. Many ebonies are also stained black for a uniform appearance. The japanese stain maple black to give the appearance.

 

[rgraf]

I've got two roasted maple necks and 4 'regular' maple necks.  They are about the same weight.  IME tuners make more of a difference.

Ebony is typically heavier than maple, but I have no ebony necks to back up that assertion.

The heaviest of maple (stumpwood from rock maple) is about as heavy as the lightest of ebonies.