Well maybe not everyone's but
it's my favorite neck wood. Alder, ash, doesn't matter. It's a bright wood but not edgy so lots of versatility. It's got a waxy feel that some people don't like. I have one in an ash body and a Dimarzio DSonic. At first, it had too much sizzle with the pickup oriented rail to bridge (typical for that pickup). With the poles towards the bridge, perfect. I have another in an alder body and it registers just a notch under the upper midrange of maple. It's a very particular wood that not everyone likes. It can make mahogany sound more nasally. You will hear more of a difference with SS frets, but the harder woods tend to do that. Nickel/silver frets + Goncalo Alves is best in my opinion. I only use it as neck+fretboard wood, never as a neck wood with different kind of fretboard or as a fretboard wood with different kind of neck wood. To me, that kind of defeats the purpose.
