My Dilemma:

[Xeromus]

For a while now I've been wanting to build a Warmoth strat. Mahogany body, hard tail, neck would be maple with ebony fretboard, jumbo frets, flat 12" radius, satin finish. Color white. Electronics one tone one volume, two cool rails and one distortion. My Ideal hot rod rockin strat. I figure a painted body with the options I want would be $415 from warmoth, and the neck a little under $300. Which I place just the neck and body around $700. If I'm gonna do this, I don't mind spending the money to get it exactly how I want. I figure another $300 or so for hardware, electronics, etc. So I'm at around $1,000. I just bought a parker nitefly that I could probably make a profit on if I resold it.

here are my options:

Sell parker, and schecter tele, put aside money for warmoth

sell Schecter strat and tele, put aside for warmoth

Sell just Schecter Tele to get new pickups for parker and forget warmoth project.

I play a lot of modern rock and jazz so I don't use the tele so much anymore, and it's something I could replace down the road anyway.

 

[Curly]

Re: My Dilemma:

since you just got the Parker, why don't you play it a bit before deciding ... it sounds like you've already decided on selling the Schecter either way

you can build your custom project whenever you have the money and desire

 

[Xeromus]

Re: My Dilemma:

since you just got the Parker, why don't you play it a bit before deciding ... it sounds like you've already decided on selling the Schecter either way

you can build your custom project whenever you have the money and desire

that's what I was thinking. It's too soon to say whether or not the parker is a keeper. It virtually plays itself. But it has a brigher and thinner sound than I'm used to, but that might be good considering all of my other instruments are darker and warmer. It might be good to have something different. Plus it has a lot of really nice features.

 

[FretFire]

Re: My Dilemma:

I say go ahead and sell the tele for some cash, and hold off on the project until you're sure about keeping/selling the Parker. One nice thing about a custom project, is that you don't really have to worry about a time frame .

 

[mongrollo]

Re: My Dilemma:

For a while now I've been wanting to build a Warmoth strat. Mahogany body, hard tail, neck would be maple with ebony fretboard, jumbo frets, flat 12" radius, satin finish. Color white. Electronics one tone one volume, two cool rails and one distortion. My Ideal hot rod rockin strat. I figure a painted body with the options I want would be $415 from warmoth, and the neck a little under $300. Which I place just the neck and body around $700. If I'm gonna do this, I don't mind spending the money to get it exactly how I want. I figure another $300 or so for hardware, electronics, etc. So I'm at around $1,000. I just bought a parker nitefly that I could probably make a profit on if I resold it.

You REALLY want it...

If you don't play the tele, then you don't need it.

 

[MikeRocker]

Re: My Dilemma:

You could save $ by doing the finish yourself. I have done 2 now, and they turned out great (and it's much cheaper than having a parts company do it).

 

[Kac]

Re: My Dilemma:

I know what It's like to want a Custom HotRod Strat, I'm working on one right now, I say sell the parker for a profit and work on that strat.
Rock On. :smoker: