East Indian Rosewood

Hippety Hop · Post by **Hippety Hop** » Tue May 20, 2008 11:45 pm

I reckon half the attraction of a rosewood fretboard is it's pore structure.

What I've seen of EIR doesn't appear to have pores.

graham mcdonald · Post by **graham mcdonald** » Wed May 21, 2008 9:07 am

Wait until you start spraying nitro onto EIR back and sides. The pores became quite obvious

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Wed May 21, 2008 9:08 am

E.I.Rosewood has plenty of pores. It sure would be handy if it didn't !

Edit ; sorry Graham ,posted the same time

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Wed May 21, 2008 5:33 pm

I've got a couple of guitars with EIR fret boards, and the pores are plenty obvious. I'm not a big fan of them, so I've moved on to other local woods for fret boards.

Alain · Post by **Alain** » Fri May 30, 2008 7:17 am

Actually, the last EIR guitar I build didn't have pores so much as craters...

kiwigeo · Post by **kiwigeo** » Fri May 30, 2008 1:37 pm

If the stuff you have hasnt got pores then its probably not EIR.

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