
A good instrument is one that once you strum it, you’ll feel the vibrations going from one side all the way through to your hands and back. The customer for this instrument tunes their guitar. The rosette, head plate and arm bevel are macassar ebony, and the bindings are ebano. (It’s also one of its most sought-after. This guitar has a sitka spruce top, pale moon ebony back and sides, mahogany neck, ebony fingerboard and bridge, with a bone nut and saddle. More commonly known as Pale Moon Ebony to US guitar luthiers and aficionados, this Southeast Asian true Diospyros ebony is, without question, the world’s most difficult, perplexing exotic wood and at times, one of its most visually stunning. Sapwood is a paler white color, not always clearly defined. Mayones Hydra Elite 6 Pale Moon Ebony Top Black Limba Back Black Body Binding 5-Ply Wenge/Purpleheart Neck 16 Radius Fretboard Pale Moon Ebony Fretboard. peregrina) Color/Appearance: Heartwood is a pale straw color, with darker black streaks throughout some pieces may be predominantly black rather than white. The end result is what the pickups will pick from those vibrations, therefore, if the vibrations are incorrect or intersect with each other, you’ll get a shitty sounding instrument. This a pale moon ebony and sitka OM with an arm bevel and cutaway. Timber Tones Guitar Wood Pick - Pale Moon Ebony (medium soft - hard). Scientific Name: Diospyros malabarica (syn. Each wood has its way of picking up the vibrations from the strings and transmitting it back to them and then back to the rest of the components. Very rare and expensive to acquire, Pale Moon Ebony is very dense and heavy which results to a very focused tone with tight lows and clear highs. It has nothing to do with the pickups yet, that is just pure physics. Pale Moon Ebony This Southeast Asian true Diospyros ebony is probably the most perplexing exotic wood.

It’s a “closed circuit”, each string has its own amplitude frequency and the guitar components must react to that amplitude, for instance, if the neck is too strong and has no flexibility, you will end up with wrong overtones or non at all. Sculpted from a gorgeous, dark piece of pale moon ebony, the handle is comfortable and minimalist, transitioning throgh a spacer of black micarta before merging. The Tone is dependent upon the colour of the timber at the Tip.


Before we dive into it: Does wood make a difference in an electric guitar? Let’s put it this way, If you take a Lamborghini engine and put it inside (let’s say) a Ford Fiesta, it will not be a Lambo, right?! The guitar body and neck is the chassis for the pickups, yes, each pickup has it’s own tonal characteristics, but that chassis will make the pickups behave in a certain way. Pale Moon Ebony has a soft Golden yellow timber with much harder dark streaks running through it.
