BSR 'B' & Burner Series Basses

[Sercan Say]

I love this bass It has great sound even with really old strings And what a playability, I know this is not my last ken smith bass I will have more

By the way is this fingerboard Pau Ferro?

[Tim Bishop]

Originally Posted by Sercan Say

I love this bass It has great sound even with really old strings And what a playability, I know this is not my last ken smith bass I will have more

By the way is this fingerboard Pau Ferro?

Most likely Pau-ferro unless custom ordered with other. By the way, the photo you inluded in your original post appears to be the same pic from Ken's Burner Archive off his site. So, do you in fact own the same bass? If so, Ken should be able to help you with all you want to know about this bass.

Here's the link: http://www.kensmithbasses.com/models/bsrb/cm6.html

[Ken Smith]

Originally Posted by Tim Bishop

Most likely Pau-ferro unless custom ordered with other.

Sorry, but there was no custom ordering available on the Burners at all. They were made and shipped as made, period. We supplied all the Fingerboard blanks to Japan for the Burner 6s in Morado/Pau-Ferro from the beginning to the end of the production and never used or offered any other wood choice for the Fingerboard.

[Tim Bishop]

Originally Posted by Ken Smith

Sorry, but there was no custom ordering available on the Burners at all. They were made and shipped as made, period. We supplied all the Fingerboard blanks to Japan for the Burner 6s in Morado/Pau-Ferro from the beginning to the end of the production and never used or offered any other wood choice for the Fingerboard.

Ken, can you tell me what fingerboard is on this Burner-6?

[Tim Bishop]

Originally Posted by Tim Bishop

Ken, can you tell me what fingerboard is on this Burner-6?

Allot of red in this fingerboard, can you tell me what fingerboard wood is used on this Burner-6?

[Ken Smith]

Again, ALL Burner 6-stringFBs were Morado. The color varies from light to dark and reddish to brownish and even a bit purplish on the real dark ones.. That's the species of the wood.

[Sercan Say]

Originally Posted by Tim Bishop

Most likely Pau-ferro unless custom ordered with other. By the way, the photo you inluded in your original post appears to be the same pic from Ken's Burner Archive off his site. So, do you in fact own the same bass? If so, Ken should be able to help you with all you want to know about this bass.

Here's the link: http://www.kensmithbasses.com/models/bsrb/cm6.html

Yes Tim the photos from Ken's site.I took some pictures too.

[Tim Bishop]

Originally Posted by Sercan Say

Yes Tim the photos from Ken's site.I took some pictures too.

Ahh, that would be Pau-ferro. Wow, if this is the same bass, the fretboard looks really different between the pic from Kens site and yours. Must be the lighting.

Check out my post just before this one. The fretboard has alot of red in it. I've never had a Pau-ferro fretboard with this much red in it. Must be a unusual species of Pau-ferro, or Rosewood.