"Club Of Snobs": Gibson Historics and Custom Shop

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Le Custom Shop nous soutient depuis toujours être au plus proche des specs originales sur les reissues et là pour le 60ème anniversaire de la Les Paul 59 ils nous foutent du Pao Ferro en l'appelant "Bolivian Rosewood" et surtout pas "Pao Ferro" évidemment…
Même si celui qu'ils utilisent ressemble vraiment à du palissandre et qu'on entend pas la différence, je trouve ça aberrant. Surtout sur des reissues à 5-6000, on est en droit d'exiger du véritable rosewood à ce tarif-là. Fender ont conservé le palissandre pour la plupart des modèles US (de base en plus!) et ont mis du Pao pour les grattes d'autres provenances. Gibson nous fout du Pao, certes plus ressemblant au palissandre que celui de Fender, mais ils font ça sur du Custom Shop à 5-6000.
J'ai rien contre le Pao Ferro mais pas sur une Historic bordel!
Ils mettraient de l'ébène que pour moi ce serait pareil. Sur une LP Standard Reissue des 50's c'est du palissandre, point.

Quoique entre ça et du richlite...
Par contre leurs ferro je sais pas ou ils le choppent mais il ressemble vachement au palisandre!

This guitar’s major departure from vintage specifications is, of course, the absence of a Brazilian rosewood fretboard. Gibson has only been able to source very limited quantities of high-quality Brazilian rosewood in recent years and none of it has shipped overseas since 2003. It isn’t even a custom option for US customers and is only made available in limited runs.

However, there are two options for fretboard material when it comes to 2019’s R9 – Indian and Bolivian rosewood. Thanks to CITES, many of us have been forced to become armchair experts on Dalbergia latifolia, but our review guitar’s Bolivian ’board – with its smooth finish, dark-brown hue and far less noticeable pores than Indian or Brazilian rosewood – requires further investigation.
Gibson Custom 60th Anniversary 1959 Les Paul Standard fretboard inlays
The trapezoid inlays are aged cellulose nitrate

“Bolivian rosewood is essentially pau ferro from Bolivia that has been sorted and processed in Brazil and selected for its visual characteristics,” reveals Mat. “It’s dark and dense, unlike some pau ferro you see out there. The reason we offer it as an option is because it’s export-friendly in the current CITES climate and it’s a great fingerboard wood to use. It’s actually a little closer density-wise to Brazilian rosewood than Indian rosewood.”

So which does Mat prefer? “Honestly, I believe you can’t go wrong. Indian and Bolivian are both great choices. No one has detected any tonal differences, as far as I know. I would expect maybe a little less compression and more clarity out of the Bolivian because of the density. But we’re talking about splitting hairs here.”