A Moe's staple - Rosewood v Maple

Lately I've been on more of a maple kick. 2 of the last 3 guitars I've purchased have had maple fret boards, and the 1 non-maple one I purchased was because they didn't have maple in stock when I ordered.

As far as the video goes - in the beginning when he was playing I closed my eyes and opened them occasionally to see which guitar he was playing to verify if I could hear the difference. I guessed correctly every time except once, and that was when he was playing on the lower strings high up on the fret board.

I like them both, but lately I've come to appreciate the smooth feel of maple.

The maple vs rosewood thing seems to be a Fender thing since maple isn't too common with other manufacturers. Looking at my inventory of Fender/Fenderlike guitars I have:

2 maple
1 roasted maple
1 ziricote
4 rosewood (counting Jazz bass)

I used to be a maple-only weenie, but have come around. I like 'em both, don't find the tonal attributes very empirical about either. Honestly, its more about aesthetics to me than anything. For instance, I love fiesta red/rosewood but not with maple.

All that said, if I were to scale down to 1 Tele and 1 Strat, they'd sport maple.

Ebony.

I have both ,but 2 of my 3 strats are rosewood. The brightest strat with the most spank is my ash/rosewood strat with custom shop 50s pickups. I’d be willing to bet on a double blind test it would be hard to tell which is maple .

For me it's all about the feel. The tone doesn't enter into it because I don't feel it's that substantial. I love the ebony fingerboards on my Gibsons but I also have a rosewood on a Les Paul that I play the most. I have a maple fingerboard on my Strat and on a Tele copy I have and I like them all.

I've had ebony on a number of guitars and always dug it, except one. It was an early Warmoth Strat neck and I swear when I gigged that neck by the end of the evening it felt like the fretboard was made from sandpaper.

I don't get it; when I play guitar I only feel the back of the neck and strings...

Definitely gravitate towards rosewood. If I find I maple neck that has the tone, it feels dirty

Nice!

I ain't exactly delicate myself.

I like the glassy feel of ebony and maple, but like Charente wrote it's mostly about aesthetics for me.

Rosewood for me but sometimes its hard to see on dark stages. I have wondered if that is why Clapton, Trower play maple and Hendrix switched to maple

I know this post is getting old but it's not too far down the list and thought I would pass this observation along as we are a few months into cold weather.

I have 2 MIM Tele's one with a maple and the other with the Pau Ferro fingerboard. Can't really notice any difference in playing or sound. There is a big difference in how they handle lower humidity during the heating season. I do run an "April Aire" on my furnace.

The Pau Ferro has bad fret sprout unless it stays in a case with a sponge humidifier only emerging for a few hours now and then.
The Maple sits out on the stand 24/7 laughing with no signs of fret sprout.

So the pair has become a seasonal deal.

Maple is my staple.