New wood for fretboards?

[Rick]

Altered on the molecular level!!!!!

Loading…

www.cnn.com

Can a fretboard be too hard?
Probably need special tools for frets. I've seen, though never played aluminium fretboards so it might work.

 

[Hodgo]

Neat. I don’t think fretboards need to be any harder though!

Speaking of, ever cut down locust? Now that is some tough friggin wood.

 

[teleme01]

It depends on the tone you're after

 

[aarontunes]

Yes, this "superwood" is the topic de-jour on all the guitar forums right now.

But bear in mind its intended purpose is to compete with steel as a building material. It is touted as being "6 x lighter", but that means 6x lighter than steel! Steel weighs about 15x more than your average guitar wood, so that is gonna make a brick house of a guitar.

I don't see a lot of applications for guitar.

 

[Chuckles]

But bear in mind its intended purpose is to compete with steel as a building material. It is touted as being "6 x lighter", but that means 6x lighter than steel! Steel weighs about 15x more than your average guitar wood, so that is gonna make a brick house of a guitar.

Just when you thought Gibson couldn’t possibly make the Les Paul any heavier…