The image above may look like something that was computer generated, but it’s actually a piece of ebony, a wood commonly used for fretboard material.<\/p>\n
Hardness of wood does actually have test to determine how hard it is, and it’s called the Janka hardness test. The Janka number is pounds-force, as in how much force is needed before the wood will dent and\/or wear.<\/p>\n
On super-soft side you have woods like basswood and eastern white pine with a Janka number of 380 to 410, respectively. On the super-hard side there are woods like Brazilian Olivewood and Austrailian Buloke, with Janka numbers of 3800 to 5000, respectively.<\/p>\n
Ordinarily, a Janka number is important when choosing a wood for flooring<\/em>, but how about for guitar building?<\/p>\n For example, many builders are put off by basswood for the fact it dents so easily. So even while basswood is readily available, several builders specifically avoid it because of its dent-prone nature.<\/p>\n Does wood hardness affect your tonewood choice when building?<\/strong><\/p>\n Does the hardness play a factor in determining which body, neck and\/or fretboard woods you go with? Or do you go by other factors such as appearance and weight and\/or if a wood “knocks” correct when you listen to it before cutting?<\/p>\n All comments welcome, so please be sure to post a comment or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The image above may look like something that was computer generated, but it’s actually a piece of ebony, a wood commonly used for fretboard material. Hardness of wood does actually have test to determine how hard it is, and it’s called the Janka hardness test. The Janka number is pounds-force, as in how much force … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}