Would you paint/dye a maple fretboard?

[ross.pearson]

You certainly can stain or dye maple any colour you want and then clear coat it.

If you're talking about just doing the fretboard a different colour than the rest of the neck, I think the difficulty would be not getting bleed from the fretboard wood onto the wood under it. I'm not sure simply masking would be able to prevent that. I've never tried it, so can't say emphatically one way or the other.

I had thought about that, but then I'm considering dying the neck darker also, so that might hide any bleeding that happens. All hypothetical at this stage, I'm not firm on the idea. Just interested to see if there's any terrible reason not to do it.

FWIW I don't think I'd use any kind of paint on a fretboard though

Personal taste, or any particular reason?