A fingerboard question

MissYouAllDay

I was just wondering about Black Micarta as a finger board wood. I have never even heard of this before. It looks something like ebony.

Has anyone had experience with that wood?

who's_pearljam?

Well, actually, Micarta isn't wood. It's a composite resin material. You know where you see it a lot, is on black kitchen knife handles!
It's used it for nuts and bridges, and a few manufacturers use it for fingerboards.
I think one of Martin's models has a micarta fingerboard. I've never played one with, so I don't know what it feels or sounds like. I bet we'll see more materials like this as the ebony and rosewood trees disappear, or become more scarce.
I have a few black micarta nuts laying around. It's easy material to work with.

MissYouAllDay

Hmmm,

That sounds not so great.
Why I ask is that the Martin 00-17 has fingerboard made of this stuff. I mean I can agree with the stoppage of mass produced guitars using rosewood cause we need our trees. But a slower factory like MArtin that doesn't pump out guitars like squire, I would expect them to keep using only rosewood and maple (or other woods).

Although the fact that martin used it on the 00-17 and D-17 models (which are fairly expensive acoustics) leads me to believe it is a pretty good sounding well charactered fingerboard material.