chocolate maple

[tom]

our supplier has not had enough demand for the real dark stuff we have been using, but has done some really nice stuff that is darker than the "roasted" stuff you have been seeing on other brands. it is a nice milk chocolate color and a really nice thing we have seen so far is that because it is a little lighter, you can still see the grain through it better. they should start showing up in stores in about a month. same great supplier we have used exclusively for the past 20 years. he has the best hard maple on the planet.

[GDane1]

Quick question, other than color, does the chocolate maple sound and feel
Like regular maple (ie:potential to get 'sticky')? I'm GASing for the 7 string pro-am online, but not sure about choc neck. Thanks.

[tom]

i keep wanting to hear a difference in sound but in a blindfold test i can not. feel is the same on the back of the neck as the finish is the same. on the chocolate fingerboard, we do not apply finish since it will not get "dirty" like untreated maple so they do feel somewhere between maple and rosewood on the fingerboard.

[gibson5413]

This is cool news. I have a plain maple and two chocolate maple necks and I can't tell or feel a difference. The chocolate maple looks amazing. The one on my Drop Top is darker than the one on my Classic. I think the darker neck looks fantastic with the Burnished Orange Burst finish. The lighter looks awesome with the Metallic Sage Green.

Either way, I love showing off my guitars. Here are pics of the two chocolate maples I have.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/gibson5413/DSC_0520-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/gibson5413/DSC_0109.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/gibson5413/DSC_0522.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/gibson5413/DSC_0546.jpg

[tom]

the one on the sage looks more like the new stuff we are getting.

[gibson5413]

the one on the sage looks more like the new stuff we are getting.


That's part of the reason I posted the pics. My thought was that was the tone you were talking about since I can see the wood grain better on the Classic than the Drop Top. I get more compliments on the neck of that Classic than anything.

The other part of the reason I posted the pics, because I like to show off my amazing TAG collection!

[tom]

and i'm glad you did:D

[Briggs]

I've always had rosewood fretboards, but I love the looks of the chocolate maple. What would a choc neck be like on a crowdster +2?

[tom]

we do maple on the crowdster player and it's a pretty similar sound. the mahogany has a little softer prettier top end to me. so a chocolate neck on a c+ would do about the same thing, a little harder attack.