Best Wood for a Strat w/P-90's ?

[MikeyT]

     I bought a loaded Strat style P-90 pickguard (2 pups) with the intention of putting it on one of my Strats.
I like traditional single coils, but wanted one Strat w/P-90's for Rock'n'roll/Rockabilly & related stuff.
I'm leaning toward Ash w/Rosewood; but wanted your opinions/ideas.

[Mr. Foxen]

Strats in wood never look quite right to me, too fiddly I guess.

[RacerX]

Mahogany & Rosewood.

*edited to add: I don't think the fretboard material changes the tone as much as the feel. For example, rosewood's gonna provide more resistance on bends & maple's like ice.

[justinhedrick]

Mahogany & Rosewood.

*edited to add: I don't think the fretboard material changes the tone as much as the feel. For example, rosewood's gonna provide more resistance on bends & maple's like ice.

agreed with the neck comment. rosewood fretboards are more . . . chewy (if that makes sense), maple are more snappy . . . again, i hope you can make sense of my moronic morning musings.

[Baltar]

Ash, maple.  Just like a '72 Tele DLX

[justinhedrick]

Ash, maple.  Just like a '72 Tele DLX

yeah, i'd pick that with a black stain so you can see the ash grain. and all blacked out hardware. oh, and stained headstock. i usually don't like those, but it sounds good on this.

[SpaceTrucker]

Ash and maple, just like my t40. heh, but really All mahogany sounds great with p90s and I don't like the sound or feel of rosewood at all.(except on acoustics, but that's cause I don't have one with a maple fretboard.)

[mawso]

P90s don't pump out massive amounts of low end, so i think generally you'd opt a warmer sounding wood.. which speaks well for the mahogany, basswood, and rosewood.

I don't think there's really a wrong answer tho.

[Isabellacat]

Mahogany with Rosewood for me 


I've got an early 90's Strat(made in Korea) and it was built that way.


Frets still play smooth after all these years. Maplewood ain't bad either.