Best body wood for a rosewood neck?

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I´m thinking about building a custom guitar made of Warmoth parts. So I´d really like to have a rosewood neck / fingerboard which would result in a pretty dark and fat sounding neck. Which would be my best choice to go for the guitars body / top to prevent it from getting too dark/muddy? From the descriptions, I´d probably like basswood or alder, each with a flamed maple top. Would that be too dark sounding? I´m planning to build a strat kind of guitar with a bit more traditional sounds (will be a hss pu configuration). More or less like the typical Suhr standard guitar.

Any recommendations are greatly appreciated.
 
All three of my rosewood neck'ed guitars are mahogany back/maple top bodies. That's what I'd go with.
 
Robotechnology":3garetrs said:
All three of my rosewood neck'ed guitars are mahogany back/maple top bodies. That's what I'd go with.
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Yep, seems to be the combo of choice from PRS, who seem to have the most rosewood necks I've seen.
 
snowdog":2t4hrnbi said:
Robotechnology":2t4hrnbi said:
All three of my rosewood neck'ed guitars are mahogany back/maple top bodies. That's what I'd go with.
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Yep, seems to be the combo of choice from PRS, who seem to have the most rosewood necks I've seen.
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This!
 
I had an all rosewood tele (like George Harrison) and that guitar was far from dark. Twanged like a bitch. A rosewood body and neck do look nice together. The guitar would give any LP a run for it's money as far as weight went though.
 
Robotechnology":3cpb00ek said:
All three of my rosewood neck'ed guitars are mahogany back/maple top bodies. That's what I'd go with.
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I agree and you'll want a heavier body because rosewood is heavy and you dont want the guitar to be to heavy on the neck.
 
A solid rosewood neck will most likely be anything but dark sounding. I say most likely because all too frequently I find bodies and/or necks that completely differ from the preconceived notions of how they "should" sound...for example I have a mahogany strat body that's extremely bright.
 
The first solid rosewood neck guitar I played was a PRS, and it didn't do much for me, so I kinda wrote off RW. Fast forward years later and I played an Anderson Cobra with a solid Indian RW neck and it was a completely different animal. Not dark and muddy at all like the PRS was, but snappy, chimey highs and very solid, fat, quick low end. I still own the Cobra and play it almost every day. It's a short scale mahogany back, maple top, dual bucker w/5 way switch. Love it !!!
 
I have a Brazillian rosewood necked/mahog/maple PRS that sounds like it has piano strings attached to it :lol: :LOL:
Its not dark at all, its actually pretty even sounding, but it rings like a bell :rock:
 
Thanks for all your input and your experience with rosewood neck guitars :thumbsup: Seems like I´ll be going for mahogany with a flamed maple top.
 
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