Slotted Fingerboard for Fender Bass

Excellent product! No more words!

gostei muito do produto, atendeu minhas necessidades.

Nothing to complain about with this one. The ebony is not pure black, just like they warned, and I even prefer it with some sort of texture on, as it seems more natural. It seems to be radiused and even all around except for one tiny little flat spot I found, but it's near the very upper frets and probably won't make any noticeable difference in playing. The slots are nicely and accurately cut too; much better than I could do by hand!

I've bought many items over the years from Stewmac and by and large have been very pleased with most of them...unfortunate then that I feel compelled to write a review regarding the slotted bass fingerboard recently received. I usually cut my own slots on fingerboards but bought this ready cut board to save time on an experimental project I am working on. Straight out of the box the rosewood was a disappointing colour...uneven across the board, not great but 'one of those things'. However, that wasn't the only problem...the radius was very, VERY uneven, indeed, sighting a line along the edge of the board revealed numerous bumps and humps along the length, particularly on the 'bass' side. The fret slots as a result look to be of uneven depth too. As a professional luthier this isn't a great problem for me, but if this was being ordered by someone trying to make their first dream bass project...they might not have the tools and/or knowledge on how to deal with this...if you fretted this without rectifying these problems you could run into a whole heap of trouble when you come to set the bass up, I don't believe a playable bass could be made!...beware!!! C'mon guys...this one really shouldn't have got out...

Nice quality wood, no problem with the slotting, it also has plenty of wood in back of the nut slot. A negative is that the board is not graduated in thickness, a Fender style board has uniform thickness at the edges, not in the center as the Stew-Mac board has, it takes some work in addition to cutting to shape.

I bought this for my senior project for school. I built a custom bass guitar designed based off of the 1961 Fender Bass VI. I thought the design was pretty cool. So i set forth on taking the design and putting it into my own view, using this fingerboard for the neck.