I've only ever owned one electric guitar, and it has an ebony neck. I like it, but my favourite type of neck is maple, thats what's going to be on my upcoming strat I think maple feels the best to play on, looks the best, and ages well.

What are your preferences as to necks, do you stand by one type or a mixture, what do you like for playability vs looks?

For aesthetic purposes only, maple. My JEM is rosewood, Clapton maple, PRS Custom 24 rosewood, Ibanez RG450DX rosewood, Martin rosewood.

I like maple.

i like the feel of maple but all my guitars have rose wood. My upcoming guitar (tele standard ash) which is on lay away has a maple fret and should sound sexy and look

I prefer Maple. I have a couple guitars with Rosewood, but for some reason I just like Maple better.
ABS

I don't have a preference. My Strat Ultra and the Gibson ES-347 both have ebony boards, The 1970-1971 Stratocaster and the Gibson L6-S have a rosewood board. The Baja Tele has a maple board. I think it has no effect on sound, but I like the look of all of them.

I like to say I have an ebony fingerboard on any guitar, and especially on a Fender. My best guitars for sound are the ones with the Ebony boards, but I think the Lace Sensors on the Strat and the Dirty Fingers pickups on the Gibson make ALL the difference. These are stellar pickups.

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2007 Classic Player Baja Telecaster
1991 Strat Ultra
1990 Gibson ES-347
1986 Yamaha SBG2100
1980 Gibson L6-S
1971 Stratocaster
Fender Stage Lead Combo
Marshall MOSFET 100 watt Amp

Rosewood here on all my guitars (electric, acoustic, 6 string or 12 string) - I just prefer the look and feel.

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Steve

I dont think I like one over the other (although most mine are RW) I take what I think goes good with the color of the guitar.

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2008 Am. Std. Strat
2008 Am. Deluxe Strat
2010 Am. Deluxe Strat
2011 Am. Std. Strat
2011 Am. Std. Strat
Hot Rod Deluxe
Hot Rod Deville 410

I just love a strat with a maple/maple fret board. I love the feel, tone and especially the look.

However, all my favorite players seem to use maple/rosewood. Go figure.

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I'm almost out of stuff to sell.

I prefer the looks of Rosewood, but I have 1 Stratocaster with maple.

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RK

2007 Fender Highway 1
2012 American Deluxe
2015 MIM Dave Murray HHH
2010 Fender Blacktop
1987 Fender Avalon Acoustic
2012 Marshall DSL 15 watt head

I think Fender is the only one who ever got maple right. I like maple. Now I would never buy one of those new Les Pauls that Have the maple neck. It's not right, Gibson gets Rosewood.

All my Fenders have maple necks, I tried one of the Gibson Power whatever it was called... with the maple neck... I got splinters

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Hey, Boy Blue is back!

i have 4 guitars with rosewood and 2 with maple and i have to say maple is my favorite.

Maple allows for marginally easier bending and rosewood gives you more feel but I really don't care which I use although some guitars look better to some with one or the other.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.