Aceman
I am your doctor of love!
Yes I do. Want it? It is on the block. I was gonna pimnp it to a John Deere Dealer. I've had offers before.
NO NEW (or used) GUITARS!!!!!
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Yes I do. Want it? It is on the block. I was gonna pimnp it to a John Deere Dealer. I've had offers before.
Aceman
I am your doctor of love!
Wait - LOOPHOLE!!!!!!
A Warmoth isn't used. Would have to be new. But is it really a guitar????? I think NOT!!!!!
A neck is a neck - but it isn't a guitar.
A guitar body is a body, but not a guitar.
A Floyd is a bride - not a guitar!
Warmoth PARTS are no guitars anymore than arms, legs heads are people!!!!!!
I CAN BUY ALL THE WARMOTH PARTS I WANT AND ASSEMBLE THEM AT WILL!!!!!!
PFDarkside
of the Forum
It’s like my Theseus’ Strat. I started with one Strat, changed the pickups, then pickguard, then body... then bridge.... I got a cool neck and replaced it... At which point I think the only original items would have been the neck plate and output jack hand plate? So I got new ones and basically ended up with a new guitar and the original guitar.
By the way, impressive sticking to it over 2020. Any other year... haha
Thing is, you will get better guitars in the end than finished products by a lot of companies! If I spend $1500 on a build, but over the course of 6 months, for some reason, I feel better about it.
ErikH
Well-known member
My most recent Warmoth happened similarly. It was an Esquire with a maple Strat neck. I had the neck from another build with a MIM Strat body that I sold. The Esquire was fun but couldn't get it to balance right (neck dive). Sold the body fully loaded, kept the neck. Got a Strat body from the Warmoth Showcase and all the necessary hardware. Then changed the neck to a baked maple with a 1 5/8" nut width, new tuners, and sold the plain maple neck with the tuners that were on it. Only difference is I ended up with a totally different guitar and only 1. The Esquire slowly morphed in to the Strat I have now, and I love it.
ErikH
Well-known member
Yup. I haven't totaled up what mine cost but I know that it feels better and plays better for me than anything else on the walls at a shop.
muttznmongrelz
New member
Good luck Aceman! I whittled mine done from 13 guitars to 5 over the last 12 months. I have tried to stick to the "one in, one out" philosophy more or less but if I run across a good deal on a great guitar I'll consider purchasing it. Only thing that I am kind of thinking about for 2021 is a used Bozeman Gibson Songwriter Deluxe; played one locally and was really impressed with it for body size/comfort, big full tone and overall build quality.
PFDarkside
of the Forum
Sorry for the OT - how did you do the wind down? How did you decide what to keep and what to let go of? I want to do something similar, but I bought everything for a reason still like them....
muttznmongrelz
New member
Basically; I had a bevy of guitars and I tended to gravitate to the same couple of guitars, i.e., they were my "favorites" for playability/feel/tone reasons so those were the ones I chose to keep. I figured it better to have a handful to which I really gravitate than a "herd" sitting in cases per se. Don't get me wrong; I still liked most of the guitars I sold but they were seldom used and sat in their cases so my first thought was "why not convert them to cash" and my second being that "if I run across another truly awesome guitar, I can pick it up".
After I had liquidated the below eight guitars and one amp I just stashed away and accumulated the cash so that I could pick up a couple replacement guitars when/if I ran across something that appealed to me. To date that has been an '88 Kramer Nightswan Blue Metallic, '04 Roman Quicksilver Classic Archtop, a Rivera Hundred Duo Combo, and, as of a couple days ago an '89 ESP Maverick Deluxe Maple Fretboard Purple Metallic. Puts me at six guitars and two amps which is a gear reduction of 53.8% and still left me with $5k in cash for my Corvette Restoration Fund!
Electrics:
- 2009 Gibson Studio Raw Power Les Paul Trans Aqua (Maple Fretboard/Maple Body/SD Jazz-JB)
- 2009 Gibson Studio Raw Power Les Paul Trans Satin White (Maple Fretboard/Maple Body/SD JNJ-CCJ)
- 1983 Kramer Pacer Imperial 3 Color Sunburst (Maple Fretboard/Maple Body/SD JNJ-DiMarzio Tone Zone F)
- 2013 Warmoth Iceman (Maple Neck/Mahogany Body/SD Jazz B-CC/TB4J A2 Hybrid)
- 2018 Frankenstein (USACG Maple Neck/KNE Azusa Ash Body/DiMarzio True Velvet-NOS TB4J)
- 1989 Seafoam Green Pacer Custom II (parted/sold)
- Charvel MIJ SD Neck/KNE GGG (parted/sold)
Acoustic:
- 1989 Guild F50 BLD Blonde Jumbo Westerly R.I. USA
Amps:
- 1992 Peavey 5150 2x12
The most recently procured '89 ESP Maple Fretboard Maverick Deluxe:
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Aceman
I am your doctor of love!
So - technically I have violated my 2020 vow. There is indeed a new guitar in the house.
However....(and Demaniac - whatch this as my "Fight The Power" by not fighting move from my option D that I have not discussed....but..."Monetize Everything")
However - Logistics dictated that I make this move when I did, so executing Operation Big As Texas yesterday.
So now the new Battle Cry is
NO NEW GUITARS IN 2021!!!!
However....(and Demaniac - whatch this as my "Fight The Power" by not fighting move from my option D that I have not discussed....but..."Monetize Everything")
However - Logistics dictated that I make this move when I did, so executing Operation Big As Texas yesterday.
So now the new Battle Cry is
NO NEW GUITARS IN 2021!!!!
