All wenge neck experience?

[Myxu]

Hi guys! Recently, I am really temped to try an all wenge guitar neck - I am about to place an order for a custom guitar and I wonder if any of You tried such wood combination for a guitar neck and fretboard? What do You think about it and how You think it will sound?
This will be 24.75 scale with mahogany or swamp ash body (haven't decided yet), with probably BKP manhattan in the neck position, and BKP flat 50 under the bridge.

[dani]

loved the feel of it. super slick albeit the grainy texture. apparently less friction due to less surface area being in contact between skin and neck.

can't tell you how the tone as it was the sum of all parts and i did not have the opportunity to try another neck with different wood on the same body.

it was also said that wenge is not very stable as they tend to move with temperature and humidity changes. it is recommended to go for a laminated construction if possible.

[PhilKing]

I have a Wenge strat neck with an bloodwood fingergoard.  It's very resonant and gives great sustain, while keeping a nice attack on the notes.  It is a hefty neck, with a 1.75" nut and a Wolfgang carve (it's a Warmoth neck).  THe wood feels great but you have to watch the headstock as it is a coarse grain.  I lacquered mine to stablize it.

[JacksonRR]

Wenge neck-through here. Very wide dynamic and frequency range. Real unique bark to the mids. Nice snap in the attack. Unstable? Hardly. Most stable neck I've ever had. It is laminated though. Just this year, it went from a southern Appalachian Autumn, to the Big Island of Hawaii for 2 months and then to a very dry and very cold last 3 weeks of an Indiana Winter. Shipped the long way(by boat), not stowed on the airplane. I don't think conditions really get much worse for an instrument. Enough time for it to adjust to the climate and then it had to deal with a complete change in humidity/ambient temp. Neck RAW, body has an oil finish. Jackson thin with very low action. Have not touched my truss rod in over a year as the neck just won't budge unless I tell it to with a change in string gauge or something.

If you've tried a rosewood neck, maybe a PRS... think along the same lines, but more aggressive. I'd probably pair a wenge neck with a swamp ash body, but that's just me. I think a mahogany body might muddy up some of the throaty high-def response you get out of a wenge neck.

[PhilKing]

Probably a bad use of the word stabilize.  What I lacquered it for was to stop the sharp edges where the grain ends on the headstock from splitting off.  The neck itself has no lacquer and is fine.

[JacksonRR]

Then, I agree wholeheartedly LOL. Yeah, my pointy headstock isn't as pointy as it once was... Nothing heartbreaking... But some very small snags happened there.