I've used many different woods for fretboards including ebony and rosewoods of differing species and I could not make the claim that it has anything to do with tone, or better said that I can use it to control certain aspects of tone. I'm sure on paper one can spec out the science behind it to 'prove' there is a difference but then a responsive guitar might sound different in the morning then it does in the evening too. I like both ebony and rosewood. Rosewood has character to it's look, especially BRW or cocobolo and it's also more stable then ebony. But then that nice jet back color or the striped textured ebony is beautiful too and ebony holds frets very well. So I mostly suggest to people that they make the choice of fretboard based on appearance and cost first.
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