Tele fretboard woood preference?

[MikeRocker]

I have built 6 guitars from parts (USA Custom and Warmoth), and kind of have a wild hair to build 2 more Teles (if this idea ever comes to fruition, it will probably be a long-term project...unless I win the Mega Millions), which should pretty much round out my Tele wants/needs (at least for the moment, haha...). I want one to have a B-Bender, and the other to have a Bigsby. So, here's the question: I already have 2 homemade Teles with Maple fretboards, and while I tend to gravitate more toward 50s style/aesthetics, I'm thinking I want to do one of these with maple, one with rosewood. So - do you prefer:

1)B-Bender + Maple, Bigsby + Rosewood

or

2)B-Bender + Rosewood, Bigsby + Maple

Music styles I play are rock, Americana, country, rockabilly, etc.

Thanks for any thoughts/input/reasons/etc.!

 

[MikeRocker]

Re: Tele fretboard woood preference?

Uhhh...anybody??

 

[AlexR]

Re: Tele fretboard woood preference?

Maple is the staple......ah, that is like Dr Seuss.

Anyhow, maple is the usual tele choice, mixed with an ash body. I've also got one that has an ebony fretboard, and that sounds quite good too.

 

[Falloffthebonetone]

Re: Tele fretboard woood preference?

Go crazy and make a solid rosewood blackguard tele with a floyd rose and a p90 in the neck.

 

[cayle_6]

Re: Tele fretboard woood preference?

I have an ash bodied tele with a maple fretboard. I've also tried an Am Std tele with a thin finish on the maple board. Maple board felt good, but I got to try out a Japanese Fender 62ri Tele with a rosewood fretboard that plays very very nice.

I say go for the B Bender with Maple and Bigsby with rosewood.

 

[jon the art guy]

Re: Tele fretboard woood preference?

I like maple necks. Maple errywhar.

Seems like if you're going to use rosewood, you should do it with a bigsby. Slightly less snap to the tone matches milky vibrato chordwork.