All Wenge All the Time

[musicispeace]

Hi All. I visited a couple regional wood suppliers over the weekend and got all excited about Wenge. Then I spoke with a couple of people I know who have had their hands on necks with it and got two different opinions. (not surprising) So my question is for a strat with vintage style pickups how distant would Wenge put you from say a traditional maple/rosewood neck? I have a strat with a Bubinga neck that I really like and I would tell people it sounds like a strat with maybe a slightly rounder attack from maple. I have seen at least a couple forum members with Wenge necks on their tele's so I take it that it does not put one on another planet from "the Fender sound." I'd be looking at Wenge neck and fretboard.

 

[AutoBat]

The nice thing about electric guitars is that the actual wood variety makes minimal impact on the overall tone.
If you build it with traditional Tele pickups it should hardly matter if the other woods in the entire guitar match the usual ash/alder body with maple/maple or maple/rosewood neck.

I have a wenge/bloodwood neck on my mahogany VIP, with EMGs and Floyd Rose, if that matters. I wasn't going for tele sound, but it doesn't sound too far off from my strat, if that makes sense at all. It's almost like the same guy is playing them.