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| Author: | af_one [ Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:31 am ] |
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I have two boards and bridges if anyone needs them--FREE. They are 1 11/16" and 2 1/8". |
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| Author: | Michael Dale Payne [ Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:17 am ] |
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Micarta FB? I bet you ment Nuts |
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| Author: | Brock Poling [ Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:56 am ] |
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No, I think he means fbs and bridges. For a look similar to the old Martin Ivory ones. |
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| Author: | Michael Dale Payne [ Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:22 am ] |
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I don't guess I have ever seen a Micarta fretboard before and 1 11/16 x 2 1/8 will mot make a fretboard |
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| Author: | David Collins [ Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:42 am ] |
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If you've played a modern 15 or 16 series Martin then you've seen Micarta fingerboards and bridges. I'm not sure it they use actual "Micarta" brand, but even if not it's a black phenolic resin that's pretty much the same. These come in just about any color you want, usually white for nuts and saddles and black for fingerboards and bridges. I'm really not a fan because Micarta expands and contracts with humidity quite a bit - many people assume synthetics will be dimensionally stable with humidity changes, but this is often far from true. The most humidity hyper-sensitive Martin necks I've seen have been ones with the Micarta boards. It hasn't been a consistant flaw however, so I wouldn't rule out correlation with second grade mahogany used on these lower series instruments. |
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| Author: | af_one [ Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:09 am ] |
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The Fingerboards are black micarta and are 1 11/16" width at the nut. The bridges are black Micarta and the string spacing is 2 1/8", they are also slotted for unslotted pins. Hope this clears things up. |
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| Author: | ballbanjos [ Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:23 am ] |
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I've used the "Garolite" brand phenolic for fingerboards on banjos with good results. I use them mostly on fretless banjos, and both the tone and the playability of the necks I've used Garolite boards on are better than any other solution I've tried. I've really not had any stability problems at all with the material (and I have instruments dating back 30 years or more with phenolic boards--Charles Fox was using phenolic fingerboards on guitars back when in the 70's when I went up to Earthworks...). Geoff Stelling used some phenolic boards that had problems back in his earlier banjo building days, but other phenolic fingerboard banjos had no problems at all. It seems to have been a bad batch of fingerboards. Of course, every once in awhile you get some not-as-stable-as-you'd-like ebony too... All in all, I think phenolics have their place. I prefer ebony for fretted fingerboards, but for fretlesses it's hard to beat phenolic. Dave |
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