Jakem
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So Gibson's using ebony fretboard on their new 20th anniversary Les Paul Custom RI. Wondering if the ebony is coming back to production now that the 1-piece rosewood boards are being used? Rumors? Information?
charveldan
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Ebony ? Sure if u wanna pay 10K for a LP. Otherwise ur prolly gonna get Richlite or some other flavor of the month ... 
As far as Rosewood i have no idea what they're using.
Last i heard about 4 months ago they were getting some RW variety from central america.
As far as Rosewood i have no idea what they're using.
Last i heard about 4 months ago they were getting some RW variety from central america.
Jakem
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charveldan":1ak8mdtl said:Ebony ? Sure if u wanna pay 10K for a LP. Otherwise ur prolly gonna get Richlite or some other flavor of the month ...
As far as Rosewood i have no idea what they're using.
Last i heard about 4 months ago they were getting some RW variety from central america.
I have no idea where the new 1-piece rosewood materials come from. It would be nice to get ebony fretboards back to the regular LP Customs!
Shawn Lutz
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from what I understand is even though richlite was being used on CS Customs ebony was still being used on RI's. I'm not a fan of richlite as an ebony replacement which is why I bought a used 2008 ebony 57 RI Black Beauty LP Custom back in March.
They were using 2 piece rosewood, laminate one on top of each other in 2012, not sure if they stopped doing that or not
They were using 2 piece rosewood, laminate one on top of each other in 2012, not sure if they stopped doing that or not
Jakem
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Shawn Lutz":1yyhhxua said:
Didn't know that the RIs still had ebony boards.
