It is finished!!

Gingrel

Gingrel

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Ladies and gentlemen of the forum,

Some of you may remember my initial excitement at the purchase of a Warmoth Explorer nearly 2 years ago. You may also know that this guitar has been plagued with difficulties (mainly my inability to solder) resulting in it spending a lot of the time sat doing nothing.

I am now pleased to announce that the guitar is now in working order.

Say hello to Raven

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More pics and sound clips to follow!!
 
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Cool man! It's nice. Getting through those difficulties always makes me appreciate the finished guitar that much more. Congrat's!
 
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Guston7 said:
What pickups and control scheme did you go with?
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Snoogles said:
those look like prails with the mounting rings with the switches
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Yea those are P-Rails with Triple Shot mounting rings. The bridge is a Fishman Powerbridge piezo. The controls are 2 volumes (concentric), 1 tone, and a dedicated preamp volume for the piezo. There is one 3-way switch selecting neck/bridge P-Rails, and another to select between P-Rails and piezo. I also included a push-pull on the tone pot to switch the two P-Rails from being in parallel with each other to being in series.

Lazarus1140 said:
Cool looking top and finish ... is it transparent black?
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That's black dye over flame maple
 
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What tuners did you use? I've got a neck with that headstock and everything sticks out further than the end of the headstock. I've got Schallers on it, I think a switch to the mini buttons would work.
 
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cool lookin' body! kinda surprised you didn't go with a typical explorer type headstock, but whatever makes your boat float! (not bad, just different)
 
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Hotness, but +1 to the non-matching headstock.

also I think you should've done the headstock in either opaque black or trans black with a flame maple veneer.
 
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that looks cool! love the colour! I agree it would look killer with a black or black dyed flame maple veneer on the headstock to match the body.
 
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I wouldn't worry too much over the headstock. It is a sweet instrument. You like the P rails? I'm thinking about putting one in the neck on my next build.
 
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King IzzO))) said:
What tuners did you use? I've got a neck with that headstock and everything sticks out further than the end of the headstock. I've got Schallers on it, I think a switch to the mini buttons would work.
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The tuners are Gotoh SG38's. http://www.warmoth.com/Gotoh-SG38-Tuners-C727.aspx

DarkMatter said:
I wouldn't worry too much over the headstock. It is a sweet instrument. You like the P rails? I'm thinking about putting one in the neck on my next build.
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Yea I like the headstock how it is. Also the P-Rails sound very sexy indeed, very versatile pickups. If you're going to get some I'd recommend a pair, because you open up a whole load more combinations to play with. One of my favourites is the two P90's in series with one another... Super fat and growly :)
 
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