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Rosewood would hide better
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Neither - better to replace the neck. Adding thickness to the front rather than the back will mean you either have to raise the bridge a lot, deepen the neck pocket, or reverse-shim it.
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Veneer standard thickness is 0.6mm This will not be that noticeable if the profile is exactly the same, which it will be. A small difference in thickness can make a big difference to feel, but when the profile is the same it will not be as noticeable.
You can get maple in constructional guitar thicknesses which will work better but thicker peices will be more noticeable and less likely to grain match when cut like a veneer is. If rosewood or grain matched maple is wanted you would have to thin down a piece yourself.
As @ICBM says, it will affect neck angle geometry, but you might get away with this. It will be affected by the thickness of the veneer as you are raising the whole fretboard plane by the same amount. If you are adding 1mm to the front of the neck and have 1mm extra height available at the saddles you should be fine, if not you would need to deepen the neck pocket instead. If you thinned the piece of wood yourself and it wasn't perfectly flat you could easily change the neck angle, which is much more likely to throw things off
plan to include a re-fret in the work. The board will likely need a tidy up after removal and being re glued. It's best not to assume the frets will be in a usable after this
A lot of work!!
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As @ICBM already pointed out, a thicker neck would oblige you to either raise the bridge, shim the neck to increase the pitch angle or shave out a little of the neck pocket floor.
The Baja telecaster neck or more recently Vintera 50's Modified neck is fairly hefty, especially for Fender. I would look for one of these (or even the whole guitar) as a replacement
Width at nut: 43mm (1.69 inch)
Width at 12th fret: 52.0mm (20.4 inch)
Depth at first fret: 20.6mm (0.81 inch)
Depth at 12th fret: 22.0mm (0.87 inch)
Width at heel; 57mm (2.24 inch)
It is just at the edge of my comfort zone. If it wasn't so wide, it would be unplayabe for me. As it is, I can play but it tires my hand and wrist out after a little while.