Olympic white strat.....

Hootsmon

for the look....rosewood or maple?

Richardj

Rosewood, with a mint or torty guard.

Panama_Jack666

Rosewood!

guitarfishbay

Rosewood. White guard with white single coils, black guard with black humbuckers.

richardhomer

One of the few Fender colours where 'either' is the correct answer - though obviously there are caveats.

Rosewood - small headstock/mint green three-ply scratch plate.

Maple - Big CBS headstock/three-ply w/b/w plastic scratch plate.

DrBob

Richardj said:

Rosewood, with a mint or torty guard.

You knows it ! 

usedtobe

Rosewood 

meltedbuzzbox

Pretty much all fenders work with a maple or rosewood board

Kylef

Rosewood. Mint guard. 

Mine:

http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p437/Kylefarrell/Fender 62 Stratocaster/2C7340A2-BE33-4844-ADB0-A74ACD086B27_zpstpycth9h.jpg

Kebabkid

Richardj said:

Rosewood, with a mint or torty guard.

This ^ - None more iconic in my opinion.

siraxeman

Both is the correct answer. I have oly white/maple but have had rosewood also. And anyway with my sunburst strat having rosewood i can just swap necks....been thinking of doing just that but slightly scared of having a neck pocket paint chip as often can happen from just loosening the neck bolt screws. 

I also have a sexy sienna sunburst w/maple now that is one colour when rosewood is always the wrongerer answer.

richardhomer

siraxeman said:

I also have a sexy sienna sunburst w/maple now that is one colour when rosewood is always the wrongerer answer.

I had a 1980 Sienna Sunburst with a maple neck - my first ever Strat. You're absolutely right - 'no one' bought rosewood then.

I wonder what happened? SRV would be my guess - prior to him, most Strat-playing guitar heroes played maple necks.

Having owned lots of rosewood Strats in the intervening years, I've recently gone back to maple - the guitar in my profile pic - and I think I've concluded that for me, a maple neck Strat is the ultimate Fender guitar.

Which is now the wrong answer, of course....

bazxkr

CHRISB50

Rosewood. 

For the looks and the feel. 

Maple is pants. 

cacophony

white strat.white pick guard. maple neck. 

anything else should be made illegal.

siraxeman

^^^its what jimi would've wanted!

Bucket

1st place: Rosewood, mint green scratchplate
2nd place: Maple, white (or black) scratchplate
3rd place: Rosewood, tortoiseshell scratchplate. That colour scheme should stick to Jazzmasters IMO.

richardhomer

Bucket said:

1st place: Rosewood, mint green scratchplate
2nd place: Maple, white (or black) scratchplate
3rd place: Rosewood, tortoiseshell scratchplate. That colour scheme should stick to Jazzmasters IMO.

Your post has just reminded me that my 'slide' Strat is in fact Olympic White, with a rosewood board and tortoiseshell scratch-plate.

It lives in a gig bag in the wardrobe in my son's room - and only comes out when some midi guitar or slide is needed on a recording....

 You're right - not a great look on a Strat....

Fez

My preference would be rosewood.

Gassage

Point of order: although rosewood is the win, the maple variant has to be a maple cap, not solid maple, or epic failure.

siraxeman

Blackmore vs hendrix eh? (With Beck helping Blackmore)