Happy Jack Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 http://www.hofner-guitars.com/news/news/view/label/Non-wood%20Fingerboards/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul S Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Necuron 840! Sounds dangerously radioactive to me. Maybe the notes don't just sustain, they have a half-life? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throwoff Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 I can already foresee the replies to this thread Personally as much as I don't really like the blue they are completely right, guitars need to move into new materials to preserve the dwindling wood stocks. It probably feels quite nice under the fingers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamfist Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Cool, bring it on ! I like the blue, personally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer of the Bass Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Will it be possible to re-fret them a few years down the line? This seems important in a quality instrument and I would like to see makers using alternative materials address this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakerster135 Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 I think this looks great, and like that it's available in other colours. I wonder how it feels, and more importantly whether and how it contributes to tone?... If such a thing can play any part in cutting down (especially illegal) rosewood logging, then it's fine by me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakerster135 Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 [quote name='bakerster135' timestamp='1403521072' post='2483433'] If such a thing can play any part in [b]cutting down[/b] (especially illegal) rosewood logging, then it's fine by me! [/quote] In the context of the sentence, definitely no (terrible) pun intended here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throwoff Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 [quote name='bakerster135' timestamp='1403521072' post='2483433'] I think this looks great, and like that it's available in other colours. I wonder how it feels, and more importantly whether and how it contributes to tone?... If such a thing can play any part in cutting down (especially illegal) rosewood logging, then it's fine by me! [/quote] As we discussed in the Fender vs Squier thread the woods do nothing to the tone and hence it could be made of cardboard provided the pickups and electronics where good quality Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer of the Bass Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 (edited) [quote name='throwoff' timestamp='1403522314' post='2483454'] As we discussed in the Fender vs Squier thread the woods do nothing to the tone and hence it could be made of cardboard provided the pickups and electronics where good quality [/quote] I wouldn't say that a Fender vs. Squier comparison demonstrates that different materials can never affect the tone. What it demonstrates is that the variation in materials between those two is too small make a significant difference. But as an example, you'd have a hard time convincing me that changing a wooden Fender neck for a carbon fibre Status neck does not change the tone so I think it's a valid question to ask when introducing radically different materials like synthetics, particularly in the neck. Edited June 23, 2014 by Beer of the Bass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musicman20 Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 I think that looks quite spectacular! Although, I would prefer a white violin bass with a tort guard and black fretboard. YUM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted June 23, 2014 Author Share Posted June 23, 2014 The whole rosewood/maple thing has never really impressed me much. A vibrating bass string does its vibrating between a fret and a bridge saddle. If the string comes into contact with the fretboard material then it makes a horrible buzzing noise. End of. Now if we're talking fretless basses, then it's a whole other thing of course. I've played fretted basses with fretboards made of maple, rosewood, ebony, graphite, ebanol, you name it. None of them sounded sufficiently different from each other to attract the slightest attention on a Saturday night at the Dog & Duck. I like that wild blue Hofner stuff because it's wild and it's blue. I doubt it will sound any different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alyctes Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 I'm glad someone is trying new materials. I wish them luck. (And I hope it smells nicer than luthite...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamfist Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 [quote name='throwoff' timestamp='1403522314' post='2483454'] As we discussed in the Fender vs Squier thread the woods do nothing to the tone and hence it could be made of cardboard provided the pickups and electronics where good quality [/quote] You seem to state it as though we were all in complete agreement on the matter, which is of course nonsense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throwoff Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 [quote name='hamfist' timestamp='1403648086' post='2485010'] You seem to state it as though we were all in complete agreement on the matter, which is of course nonsense. [/quote] Some people are just too invested in the matrix to come out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted June 25, 2014 Author Share Posted June 25, 2014 [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Just%20Stuff/Sundry/Morpheus-Red-or-Blue-Pill-the-matrix-1957140-500-568.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Just%20Stuff/Sundry/Morpheus-Red-or-Blue-Pill-the-matrix-1957140-500-568.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brensabre79 Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 I like, I think it's great that a manufacturer is pushing things forward in this way, except it's Hofner, still trading off the back of a band that are more than 50 years old to some degree with a design even older than that. And as for their other models, they all look like the 1960s. I'd like to see them pushing things forward with the shape design and spec. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted June 25, 2014 Author Share Posted June 25, 2014 Yup, just like Fender do. On no ... wait ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Anyone actually know what Necuron 840 is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mykesbass Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 (edited) [quote name='Graham' timestamp='1403715255' post='2485589'] Anyone actually know what Necuron 840 is? [/quote] Just had a look and it is a polyurethane based material - German company making different forms of this material for different uses. Should be able to recycle it so hopefully a good move forward. http://necumer.com/images/Downloads/DB/us/NECURON_840_sdb.pdf Edited June 25, 2014 by Mykesbass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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