A little bit of a disapointment

[nilorius]

I had a little bit of disapointment when ordering at 2006 Ibanez GWB1005 Sugi guitars 5 string fretless. The point was it was supposed to be fingerboard made from ebony, but my version was made from ebonol. Do You think it's acceptable? 

[Terry M.]

I had a Squier Deluxe Active Jazz V with an ebonol fingerboard and really liked it. Not sure that helps. Can I assume you haven't received the bass yet?

Edited Wednesday at 18:04 by Terry M.

[BassApprentice]

I can get the disappointment, but it looks like you knew this before ordering!

 

On 12/04/2022 at 22:43, nilorius said:

I was wondering that the first ones 2006/2007 year were made by Sugi guitars with ebonol fingerboard, after that tthe fingerboard was rosewood, then ebony and made by Fujijet. Wonderind why so many changes and how much ?

 

Appreciate it was a couple of years ago 😂

[nilorius]

15 minutes ago, BassApprentice said:

I can get the disappointment, but it looks like you knew this before ordering!

 

 

Appreciate it was a couple of years ago 😂

Mine was ordered 2006 and recieved too. I didn't know about ebonol.

[Beedster]

21 minutes ago, nilorius said:

Mine was ordered 2006 and recieved too. I didn't know about ebonol.

So you've had it 19 years and now you're worrying about the fingerboard, or have I missed something?

[LeftyJ]

Happy belated NBD I guess! 

Ebonol is great. Very solid and durable, and it requires very little maintenance. The phenolic resin fingerboards on my Status basses are basically the same material, and they're around €4000 for a new one - so I definitely wouldn't discount it as an "inferior" material to wood. I think it's great for use on a fretless. 

[nilorius]

12 minutes ago, Beedster said:

So you've had it 19 years and now you're worrying about the fingerboard, or have I missed something?

My psysics from china town has changed. Now my 1rst gun is Yamaha trb 5P II. So it's allright, no worries.

[Terry M.]

1 hour ago, nilorius said:

I had a little bit of disapointment when ordering at 2006 Ibanez GWB1005 Sugi guitars 5 string fretless. The point was it was supposed to be fingerboard made from ebony, but my version was made from ebonol. Do You think it's acceptable? 

I thought you meant it was a 2006 bass rather than you ordered it in 2006.

[nilorius]

16 minutes ago, Terry M. said:

I thought you meant it was a 2006 bass rather than you ordered it in 2006.

I ordered it new.

[Terry M.]

44 minutes ago, nilorius said:

I ordered it new.

Okay then I'm not sure I understand your disappointment. 

[Steve Browning]

Is this the bass you mention in the thread on 14/11/2023? It was ideal then.

Edited Wednesday at 18:07 by Steve Browning

[Steve Browning]

Certainly Ibanez themselves say it's ebony. How do you know it's ebanol instead?

[Beedster]

I suspect this is a placebo thread  

[nilorius]

31 minutes ago, Steve Browning said:

Certainly Ibanez themselves say it's ebony. How do you know it's ebanol instead?

My luthier at 2024 said it to me.

[Reggaebass]

Any pictures of the fingerboard nilo 

[Steve Browning]

6 minutes ago, nilorius said:

My luthier at 2024 said it to me.

I hesitate to state this, but might they be mistaken. I find it hard to believe that a company like Ibanez would be guilty of misrepresentation.

[nilorius]

Let's stop this topic. I don't really want to discuss it. It seems i was confused starting it. Sorry guys.

[LeftyJ]

You just need a little Shaggy. 

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

15 hours ago, nilorius said:

Let's stop this topic. I don't really want to discuss it. It seems i was confused starting it. Sorry guys.

I think most people were confused reading it. I certainly was.

[nilorius]

😄I would like to change this topics name to "I love ebonol".

Edited Thursday at 12:02 by nilorius

[snorkie635]

22 minutes ago, nilorius said:

😄I would like to change this topics name to "I love ebonol".

Go Nilo. I have missed you my friend. 👍

[Rayman]

I’m absolutely sure that the 1005 is a way more superior bass to the GWB35, but I can remember when I had one, I was really unimpressed with it. Generally feeling a bit cheap and overpriced. Half the fret lines popped out of the ebanol, and I had to get a luthier to re-glue them all back in. That’s my only experience of the stuff. 

[Beedster]

12 minutes ago, Rayman said:

I’m absolutely sure that the 1005 is a way more superior bass to the GWB35, but I can remember when I had one, I was really unimpressed with it. Generally feeling a bit cheap and overpriced. Half the fret lines popped out of the ebanol, and I had to get a luthier to re-glue them all back in. That’s my only experience of the stuff. 

 

I guess that like any material, it's only as good as the person or machine that did the building. I had an ebanol boarded fretless and it was like playing glass, felt way better than most of my wooden boarded basses and very similar to s Status Graphite fretless neck I had at the time. And that's about as good a comparison as you'll get I think 

[ezbass]

20 minutes ago, Rayman said:

I’m absolutely sure that the 1005 is a way more superior bass to the GWB35, but I can remember when I had one, I was really unimpressed with it. Generally feeling a bit cheap and overpriced. Half the fret lines popped out of the ebanol, and I had to get a luthier to re-glue them all back in. That’s my only experience of the stuff. 

Whereas mine was absolutely fine, construction wise. I wasn’t keen on the way it went gray/white in places where the strings rubbed, however. Felt great to play as @Beedster mentioned. I stripped mine as I didn’t like the stealth black, which revealed some very average basswood, with a great big knot in it (none of which affected the sound), still looked pretty cool though.

 

Edited Thursday at 18:00 by ezbass