when you look at a normal rosewood-board Strat in blue, red, black or whatever, the only maple-coloured thing is that headstock perched at the far end of the neck...
Exactly, it's that "icing on the cake" effect... YUM!! :lol:
For me, I've realised that there's also a lot of "that's the way they look..." that I've bought into. Suddenly seeing a headstock matching the red of the body, for example, then comes as a bit of "that's not quite right" shock.
It's weird with that Jaguar though - now you've pointed it out, I can see exactly what you mean about it trying to match the fretboard, but I didn't notice that at all!!
Interestingly, one of the things that kept me from maple boards so long was that I don't really like the headstock to match the board. Not a show-stopper at all, but I much prefer a hard visual line between the board and the headstock - I
think this applies to all guitars, but I'm not sure though. And on Fenders I kinda want them both to be wood, not paint. (btw - painting a headstock on a maple-boarded strat seems no crazier to me than painting the headstock on a rosewood boarded one... can't tell you why though)
The fretboard on a guitar obviously seems to have some sort of weird "otherness" to me - I suppose it is "the playing surface" in my mind. On this Jaguar strat I must have seen the rosewood at either end and mentally blocked out the fretboard in the middle.
Not saying any of these preferences/prejudices are right, though, or even sane! It just seems to be how it all affects me.
