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Of course, you can use East Indian Rosewood for fretboards. I'll take ebony first. I'll take maple on a Telecaster or a Stratocaster before the rosewood option. But you can use it on fretboards.

Funny how Fender wasn't raided, when it uses all of that rosewood on fretboards. And how Guild wasn't raided, or the smaller luthiers like Collings, and Goodall, and Olson, and Froggy Bottom, and . . .

But they probably had the paperwork straight and obeyed the rules, no matter how arcane, unlike Gibson.

Seems to make a lot more sense than immediately assuming this was a targeted hit because of Republican donations.

34 posted on 08/27/2011 12:56:42 PM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.)

Scoutmaster wrote:

Funny how Fender wasn't raided, when it uses all of that rosewood on fretboards. And how Guild wasn't raided, or the smaller luthiers like Collings, and Goodall, and Olson, and Froggy Bottom, and . . .

Just curious. How many of those other companies are located in "right to work" states? How many of those operations are union shops?

39 posted on 08/27/2011 1:13:01 PM PDT by cc2k ( If having an "R" makes you conservative, does walking into a barn make you a horse's (_*_)?)

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