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Aesthetic advice please!

I have an interesting looking piece of oak which I'm thinking of using as a fretboard on a mahogany neck, for a tenor guitar. It's light though, like a maple fretboard. How do you all think it might work to the eye? (I'm happy it will work mechanically, including humidity expansion, though I guess it will show finger-wear dirt in time).

The mahogany may end up a shade or two browner, and the nut which separates headstock from fretboard, visually, will be a very dark brown. And if it helps, this goes on a black body with cedar top, so the top is a similar shade to the fretboard.

I like it.

To my eye it is too close to the mahogany, but not a match. I think I would either fume the oak to significantly darken the color or choose something else.

Yeah, color is too close.

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Pat

I like it and would do as you said and darken the mahogany to somewhat match the body. Let the oak stand out in contrast.

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Hutch

Get the heck off the couch and go build a guitar!!!!

What are you going to bind the body with?

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sweat the small stuff.

+1 for the opinion that they are too close in colour to each other. I think it is better to have some contrast. I also don't tend to like light coloured fingerboards, and find them hard to keep clean - but that is just a personal preference. So, my $0.02 worth of opinion would be to keep the mahogany colour and darken the oak.