Black tele- rosewood or maple fretboard?

[Rstewart8706]

I will always choose maple for a Tele fretboard.

Funny, I'm just the opposite. I'll always chose rosewood over maple on a tele.

 

[Mike Eskimo]

( Ferro )

 

[d barham]

Rosewood.

 

[VintageSG]

Rosewood.
+
Red scratchplate.
Curly lead.
H|H IC100 amp.

 

[rze99]

Rosewood.
+
Red scratchplate.
Curly lead.
H|H IC100 amp.

Palid complexion, manic stare, pudding bowl haircut, machine gun guitar stance

And.......


Killer riffs!

 

[boris bubbanov]

A black Tele with a maple neck is like a t-shirt and jeans. It’s never going out of style.

I guess.

But black with maple is my brother's trademark thing, and so my black guitars need to be rosewood. No copying the brother. Even if he is a bassist.

 

[Freeman Keller]

Black on black baby! Ebony preferred, but dark Rosewood will work.

Not a tele but a black strat with a roasted flame maple neck and macassar ebony fretboard

 

[boris bubbanov]

I just thought of something: Maple is like cement pavement and Rosewood is like Asphalt. When the heavens open and the rain falls hard, water pools on the cement just as sweat pools on a maple board. In contrast at least some of the cloudburst melts away when it falls on the asphalt and this is why our fingers slip less on rosewood when playing outdoors in stupid hot/humid conditions.

 

[badinfinities]

 

[Chicago Matt]

 

[Mike Simpson]

Maple?

Or Wenge?

 

[Tommy Biggs]

Rosewood with double bound black Teles.

I owned this non-bound Tele in the 70s…

 

[rze99]

Maple?
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Or Wenge?
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Left the black strap at home….

 

[badinfinities]

I don't have a black Tele. Somehow this feels wrong and it must be rectified.

 

[AAT65]

 

[Dismalhead]

I prefer the feel of maple on my Fenders, but if we're talking purely cosmetic here I think rosewood usually looks better on dark guitars in general. I just bought a sunburst strat with a rosewood board, and the board decision was purely because I thought it looked better than the maple.

 

[Highway 49]

Even though I’m a Wilko Jonson fan, I’ve got to go with maple fretboard on a black Tele or Strat. Maybe it’s the contrast than makes it seem cooler, maybe it’s the history, but definitely maple fretboard with either a white or black pickguard…

 

[THX1139]

Not a tele but a black strat with a roasted flame maple neck and macassar ebony fretboard

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Tasty! What did you throw in for pickups if I can be rude and take a slight detour with the thread.

 

[Dan German]

There are a few colours where I would prefer the look of rosewood, but black ain’t one of ‘em. Maple.

 

[Freeman Keller]

Tasty! What did you throw in for pickups if I can be rude and take a slight detour with the thread.

I frankly don't know what they are. I was approached by a friend putting together a Pink Floyd tribute band and he wanted me to assemble a "black strat' inspired by David Gilmore's. Not necessarily a clone but close in both appearance and voice. He bought the parts and had me assemble them. The loaded pickguard was custom assembled by 920D, I just screwed it in place. To my ears it sounds right.