Ebonol or ebony ? Why ?

[neepheid]

24 minutes ago, nilorius said:

What is TBH ?

 

To Be Honest, last I checked.

[nilorius]

1 minute ago, neepheid said:

 

To Be Honest, last I checked.

Thanks !

[ezbass]

42 minutes ago, nilorius said:

What is TBH ?

 

18 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

To Be Honest, last I checked.

What @neepheid said.

[WinterMute]

6 hours ago, ezbass said:

That's a good description, not that it affected my playing of the bass, I actually miss that one. 

 

I can't speak for anyone else, but I'd like to see a photo of that.

here you go.

 

 

[nilorius]

1 minute ago, WinterMute said:

here you go.

 

 

Looks like ebony. Did You like it ?

[WinterMute]

3 minutes ago, nilorius said:

Looks like ebony. Did You like it ?

 

Yeah a lot, it's very tactile and "woody" for want of a better word, but it wears like epoxy or ebanol. 

Edited April 27, 2023 by WinterMute

[nilorius]

1 minute ago, WinterMute said:

 

Yeah a lot, it's very tactile and "woody" for want of anbetter word, but it wears like epoxy or ebanol. 

Ebanol more like all black, this one looks like a real wood - ebony.

[Downunderwonder]

2 minutes ago, nilorius said:

Looks like ebony

Eh? Looks like some random stained wood left in a swamp to mature, more like. 

[nilorius]

Just now, Downunderwonder said:

Eh? Looks like some random stained wood left in a swamp to mature, more like. 

Swamp ash wood is good for body - light and bright !

[Downunderwonder]

2 minutes ago, nilorius said:

Swamp ash wood is good for body - light and bright !

Swamp Kauri over here.

[nilorius]

2 minutes ago, Downunderwonder said:

Swamp Kauri over here.

Where does it grow ?

[Downunderwonder]

Ebony is kinda getting to be an endangered species isn't it?

 

I am quite happy playing on ebanol. If that leaves a little bit of ebony for violins that can really use it, that's ok by me.

[nilorius]

1 minute ago, Downunderwonder said:

Ebony is kinda getting to be an endangered species isn't it?

 

I am quite happy playing on ebanol. If that leaves a little bit of ebony for violins that can really use it, that's ok by me.

At 2006/07 and before it was. Now it is free.

[Downunderwonder]

1 minute ago, nilorius said:

Where does it grow ?

NZ and Fiji is where the swamp stuff comes from. 10's of thousands of years old.

 

Kauri is a podocarp. Podocarps were around when the dinosaurs were kingpins. Conifers and deciduous trees are much newer.

 

In NZ we have a big problem with a fungal nasty that must have come in on someone's undetected dirty boots. Is is lethal to Kauri so known as Kauri dieback disease. It was undetected for some time so trampers have spread it widely.

[fleabag]

I have a fretless with Rosewood and a fretless with Richlite.

 

Unfortunately, both are at assembly stage, so i'll  post when both are playable

[JoeEvans]

There was a story a while back about ebony, the gist of which was that it is endangered, but there's loads more if it available than actually gets used because we like it to be totally black, but in reality most ebony has paler patterns and markings so gets rejected - and you have to chop down the tree to inspect the wood.

One US maker was starting to use the paler stuff and I thought it looked gorgeous. Anyone have any facts or updates on this?

[Beedster]

2 minutes ago, JoeEvans said:

There was a story a while back about ebony, the gist of which was that it is endangered, but there's loads more if it available than actually gets used because we like it to be totally black, but in reality most ebony has paler patterns and markings so gets rejected - and you have to chop down the tree to inspect the wood.

One US maker was starting to use the paler stuff and I thought it looked gorgeous. Anyone have any facts or updates on this?

i had a tiger stripe ebony neck by Warmoth, I’ll dig out some pics. Same feel as normal ebony but very different aesthetic 👍

[Beedster]

Tiger stripe 

 

[BlueMoon]

10 hours ago, nilorius said:

What is TBH ?

“To be honest”

[JoeEvans]

3 hours ago, Beedster said:

Tiger stripe 

 

That's what I'm talking about! I really like the look myself. 

[ezbass]

My two ebony ‘boards.

 

 

 

[LeftyJ]

I was going to post something, but just cleared my message because

A: my only fretless basses either have rosewood boards or are just a maple 2x4 with strings, and;

B: my only basses with ebonol fingerboards are my Status Graphite basses with carbon graphite monocoque necks, and their response is incomparable to any of my wooden necks. 

 

As you were. Nothing to see here 

[Leonard Smalls]

I'd always go for ebanol.

I had a sip of some meths once with a tramp on the Rows in Chester and had to spit it out; if booze tasted like that I'd never have another mouthful!

So I always check and make sure it's ebanol in my whisk(e)y before shelling out.

[nilorius]

Well, seems this topic is ended now. Well, anyway - thanks everybody who responded with their thoughts and put some pics. Looks like ebony is more prefered, anyway i like ebonol more. Thanks to all !!!

[kodiakblair]

Ebonol.

Wore roundwound for the past 35 years, very little evidence of marking. I'll take ebonol over ebony every time.