I have a great pawnshop guitar I'm getting ready to refinish as a way of making it looking older and funkier. My plan is to strip it to bare wood (alder body?) stain it deep red then spray it with polyurethane or something similar. I'm planning on ordering an unfinished maple neck to replace the existing rosewood one. What I'm wondering--what's to stop me from staining the neck (including the fretboard) red to match the guitar? I suspect the maple is harder than the alder and will absorb the red stain differently and thus might not match in color (unless I apply numerous coats, etc.) but my question--why do you never see a guitar with a colored fingerboard? Any reason I can't do this? (And hey, when this becomes the rage, you heard it here first!) Thanks.
