Ready to drool?

[Grand Wazoo]

For the month of August only Ernie Ball Music Man has a special ordeing window where you can order any model of basses and guitars (except the Classic series) with a highly figure roasted maple neck, ebony fngerboard, and their limited edition BFR inlay at the 12th fret, only problem is... no choice of body colour as they only offer it in black sugar whatever that is, as per the pic below

[url="http://www.ernieball.com/email/roasted_maple/index.html"][/url] which you can click on for more details and pics

[mart]

Wow, that maple is stunning!

[Ou7shined]

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' post='901970' date='Jul 22 2010, 02:51 PM']For the month of August only Ernie Ball Music Man has a special ordeing window where you can order any model of basses and guitars (except the Classic series) with a highly figure roasted maple neck, ebony fngerboard, and their limited edition BFR inlay at the 12th fret, only problem is... [b]no choice of body colour as they only offer it in black sugar whatever that is[/b], as per the pic below..[/quote]
It's black with a sparkle through it.

The roasted maple is lovely isn't it, looks like Guinness settling to me.

[fragglefart]

Guinness is right. Man that is gorgeous.

What's the damage to your wallet?

[JTUK]

I like flame or birds-eye on necks and have them on my basses, but that is too much for me.

[Grand Wazoo]

[quote name='fragglefart' post='902627' date='Jul 23 2010, 12:26 AM']Guinness is right. Man that is gorgeous.

What's the damage to your wallet? [/quote]

Apparently its about an extra $400 on top of the normal price, now what's that in pounds?... about £261.64, not bad huh?

[Fat Rich]

Sugar coated body? Dry Roasted neck?

Now you're talking my language!

[neepheid]

So that's what they were trying to do to my Victory Artist!

[geoffbyrne]

I had a 'bitsa' J a while back. It was a Hohner Professional JJ Jazz with a stained maple body. It had various necks on it. The original was pretty much a 'P' neck which I later replaced with a J, then after that with an unlined 'P'. It passed on to Lemmywinks, whom, I believe, is still using it.

Anyway, you can see the depth of grain showing through the dark staining here:





G.

[4 Strings]

Is this 'roasting' an over done way of reducing the curing time for the neck wood? Sounds cheap and cheerful to me, looks great, and so is marketed as a boon.

Anyone actually know about this?

[nash]

no roasted maple fretboard? looks awesome