• Optional@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Yeah I guess that’s right, but they fit the overall look at least for the natural finish.

    Here’s a pic showing the frets-on-neck approach:

    Yeah maple fretboards for me. Because Jimi. Although he didn’t really care afaik, it just looked the coolest.

    • anon6789@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      I do enjoy some natural finish maple. I think maple fretboards make the guitar stand out a bit more since it’s a brighter color. The worn in ones look like they’ve got stories too, which I like. Maple’s just got character that the other fretboards don’t seem to get.

      I don’t even know how it got on my feed, but I’ve been watching a ton of videos from the NirvanaGuitars YouTube channel about the history of all of Kurt’s guitars. Now those things have character! Even if they were only around for a couple weeks, they all seemed to live hard lives and are very distinct and personalized instruments even though they all would have been considered junky at the time. That’s much more exciting to me than some expensive off the shelf guitar.

        • anon6789@lemmy.world
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          4 days ago

          I’ve thoroughly enjoyed everything I’ve seen on that channel, and before I started watching him I would have said it wasn’t my thing. His guitar histories and recreations, and also his this album but with this other one’s tone or the alternate what-if Unplugged setlists are awesome.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 days ago

      The neck-tilt adjustment was in the heel in the neck plate and made it super easy to get the action you wanted without futzing with saddles and the truss rod

      In later years they made the truss rod as easily accessible

      • anon6789@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 days ago

        Both of these features look cool!

        I like how both seem simpler than the common ways of dealing with these 2 adjustments.