White Fingerboard

[Mr. Preston Swift]

I was recently looking at Parker Acoustic guitars and i saw that one of them had an all white fretboard and bridge made of ivoroid.

http://parkerguitars.com/code/models/model...cp10e_intro.asp

It looks really cool, but is it a suitable choice for a fingerboard? Also where could someone obtain a piece of ivoroid big enough to be a fingerboard or a bridge?

[Hector]

I was recently looking at Parker Acoustic guitars and i saw that one of them had an all white fretboard and bridge made of ivoroid.

http://parkerguitars.com/code/models/model...cp10e_intro.asp

It looks really cool, but is it a suitable choice for a fingerboard? Also where could someone obtain a piece of ivoroid big enough to be a fingerboard or a bridge?

You wrote the answer for your own question.

Ivoroid! which is not the same as Ivory

Edited August 26, 2007 by Hector

[Mr. Preston Swift]

Yeah, but is ivoroid actually white white and not sort of cream colored? Is there a wood that's almost completely white out there that could be used as a fingerboard wood?

[low end fuzz]

holly;

but to find a piece w/o knots and defects is difficult; for the lenght of a fb

[Hector]

I believe ivoroid is a man-made material

ivory is the real deal.

kinda like abalone X abalam.

Edited August 26, 2007 by Hector