How can you tell how thick the fretboard is?
Height of the binding.
That was sort of a rhetorical question.
Tom could I please ask you about the 2012 R 9's that had the two piece fingerboards ? the reason I ask is because now the new CITES 2 regulations have come out and I have been reading about the travel issues with instruments containing East Indian Rosewood have been put into a similar category as Brazilian Rosewood (what in the world is happening with all of this furniture being built and issues of supply and sustainable harvest have creped up for of all things East Indian Rosewood ) I do know the feds confiscated Rosewood from Gibson in 2012 and hence the two piece boards but I do not know enough about specifically the 2012 R9's and the issues involved and their said desirability due to the two piece boards and was this something that the naked eye could see or was it underneath where it was glued to the mahogany necks and how did it affect tone and playability at all of the guitars and any insight and photos would be greatly appreciated ?I realize now, that I immediately think of the thickness at the edge of the board, rather than the center. :hmm
Tom could I please ask you about the 2012 R 9's that had the two piece fingerboards ? the reason I ask is because now the new CITES 2 regulations have come out and I have been reading about the travel issues with instruments containing East Indian Rosewood have been put into a similar category as Brazilian Rosewood (what in the world is happening with all of this furniture being built and issues of supply and sustainable harvest have creped up for of all things East Indian Rosewood ) I do know the feds confiscated Rosewood from Gibson in 2012 and hence the two piece boards but I do not know enough about specifically the 2012 R9's and the issues involved and their said desirability due to the two piece boards and was this something that the naked eye could see or was it underneath where it was glued to the mahogany necks and how did it affect tone and playability at all of the guitars and any insight and photos would be greatly appreciated ?
Thank you Tom .My experience is limited to the CC#4 Sandy series. I have found no problems or issues when playing these. I see no way to make a tonal comparison, short of replacing the fingerboard [which of course, I won't do]. The laminate is not visible unless the nut or the binding is removed.