Favourite fretboard wood?

[mystique1]

I recently put together my first Warmoth Stratocaster and am hugely impressed with the build quality. I ordered a regular Fender type Maple/Rosewood fretboard neck, but am now seriously considering getting a Maple neck with something a little more exotic for the fretboard. Pau Ferro looks nice, as does Ebony. Any opinions on these and the plethora of other woods Warmoth offer for fretboards?

 

[Xplorervoodoo]

If you like the feel of Ebony, may I suggest Bloodwood?  Feels similar, and has a cool red color  :icon_biggrin:

 

[Noodler]

This will blow your mind. A maple neck with a MAPLE board

 

[SustainerPlayer]

Let's see ... 2 x Ebony, 3 x Pau Ferro, Macassar Ebony, Wenge, Canary ... that's ones I got so far. All thou a little different - they actually are all great.

And I still want to try the the others ... Ziricote, Bloodwood; Bubinga, Cocobolo, Kingwood ... well you get the picture. All woods that can go raw.

Choose the one(s) you like the look of. You can't really loose.

Oh yeah ... almost forgot ... go RAW on the neck. Get something else than maple.  arty07:

 

[mullyman]

My personal preference is maple on maple. With that said, my main guitar, a Warmoth Stratocaster, is ebony over maple. The ebony is very smooth and slippery.....it feels great. I'm not big on rosewood. My first guitar had rosewood and it always felt.....dry, for lack of a better term. I don't like the feeling under my fingers while bending strings, you can feel the grain.....uggghh, makes me shudder just thinking about it. Hey, kudos to those that like it, I'm not trying to change anyone's opinion. If we all liked the same thing this world would be pretty boring.

One of these days I'd like to try a Kingwood fingerboard. But it'll have to be the right piece. There was one in the showcase a few years ago that I should have grabbed but I missed it. I keep looking for another one similar to it but they haven't shown up yet.

No matter what I have on the fingerboard it has to look nice too. I could spend 150 bucks and get a straight maple fingerboard with zero grain on it, but that's not pleasing to my eye. Warmoth makes quality products so there's plenty of reason for me to look for something that looks appealing to me. The ebony fingerboard on my Strat is jet black with these yellow streaks in it that kind of looks like a flame running up the fingerboard. The Kingwood board I saw many years ago looked like marble cake mix with the streaks all swirled around on it. When I go looking for a neck I punch in the parameters I'm looking for then go in and look at each and every one of them until something jumps out at me. It could take weeks or months for me to find that right piece. Luckily Warmoth tends to have a lot of good stuff to choose from.
MULLY

Here's the latest neck I just bought about a week ago

 

[crash]

Tulipwood.  I thought it would be an open grain, being a type of rosewood.  But it is z very tight grain like ebony.  And it has a really cool flame that does not show up on the pics on the unique choice page.

 

[Patrick from Davis]

I have, Ebony, Macassar Ebony, Bocote, Pau Ferro, Rosewood, Ziricote, and Maple.  For sheer coolness in looks, Bocote is unreal, and Ziricote is trippy.  The Ebonies, Maple, and Pau Ferro are all very slick tight grained jobbies(the maple is finished, but it fits here anyways.)  Bocote and Rosewood feel quite a bit more flannel than satin.  The Ziricote is just different.  It has a very waxy feel to it, but it is quite hard.  Words fail me I guess, but they all work.  For this, I'd go with whatever piece rally draws me in, because it is fun to grin at the guitar you are playing.
Patrick

 

[Cagey]

I recently put together my first Warmoth Stratocaster and am hugely impressed with the build quality. I ordered a regular Fender type Maple/Rosewood fretboard neck, but am now seriously considering getting a Maple neck with something a little more exotic for the fretboard. Pau Ferro looks nice, as does Ebony. Any opinions on these and the  plethora of other woods Warmoth offer for fretboards?

Those are both excellent choices. As for others, it's like being at the Cheesecake Factory. Tough to go wrong. Everything is gonna be delicious. The main thing is you have to get their Stainless or Gold frets. Makes all the difference in the world.

 

[swarfrat]

Maple/Maple is a standby for me, but the finish requirement always drives me to exotics when I'm drooling browsing the showcase. I know tru-oil isn't that bad. I'd be tempted to scarf a showcase neck if the right options were to surface at the right price.

 

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but am now seriously considering getting a Maple neck with something a little more exotic for the fretboard.
Pau Ferro looks nice, as does Ebony.
Any opinions on these and the plethora of other woods Warmoth offer for fretboards?

I'm a bit like the others, to many to list  :doh:
Got a Ebony on Maple (Satin Nitro) on my Yella Terra ... Love that.  :toothy10:
http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=20346.0

Ever thought of a Raw neck  :dontknow:

Couple of the others I have ...
Ebony on Pau-Ferro .... pure sex on a stick  :icon_thumright:  .... one of the best combos IMHO.
Wenge / Wenge .... wonderful
Ziricote / Bocote .... more sex on a stick

Plain Black Ebony isn't really exotic looking.
But ... Ebony Macassar sure is.
http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=19269.0

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Of the ones I've owned, rosewood is my favorite.  The instruments I play most often have it.

 

[greywolf]

ebony as long as it is available , I won't use anything else

 

[AutoBat]

I've one with ebony, and one with bloodwood.  Both are excellent fretboard.  I chose the bloodwood for some colour, otherwise I probably would've gone with ebony again.