The Warmoth Club

[jmh151]

The Warmoth Club

Awesome wood there! What is she loaded with?

EVH Wolfgang bridge pickup
German Original Floyd Rose with Big Block, all parts slowly being changed to Stainless steel and Titanium saddle blocks
Gotoh tuners
FU Tone PMS mounting system
EVH volume pot
Warmoth neck, slight Birdseye maple, Wolfgang countour, 1 11/16 nut, stainless 6105 frets, satin nitro finish
Switchcraft long barrel output jack
Hollow White Korina body with black Korina top, recessed Floyd with trem stop, countoured heel. Danish oil followed by birchwood casey sealer and tru oil

Now I have to find a knob that fits the solid shaft EVH pot

She's all wired up now, now the string up and lengthy setup begin

 

[henry_stax]

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Beautiful

Tune up, Plug in and Rock out

 

[kramersteen]

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i have seen a few folks mention that the frets on the warmoth neck can be a bit hit and miss?

Whats your opinion on this warmoth fan boiz?

Are they tip and top straight out of the box? Ya'alllll

I have only ever purchased truss rods from them. They seem good.

 

[Snake Aces]

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i have seen a few folks mention that the frets on the warmoth neck can be a bit hit and miss?

Whats your opinion on this warmoth fan boiz?

Are they tip and top straight out of the box? Ya'alllll

I have only ever purchased truss rods from them. They seem good.

All of the necks I've ordered from them have come at about the same or better than guitars I've owned or played from Fender, Epiphone, Gibson, Music Man or Schecter over the years. I'm sure there are some bad experiences out there as there are with any guitar brand, but in my experience all of my Warmoth necks have been ready to play right out of the box.

The most interesting thing to me was I had not placed an order with them since 2009. In the time since then their business has really skyrocketed if their order numbers are any indication. So, I wasn't sure what to expect from their QC on both the new Regal body and Regal neck I ordered. The body arrived with perfect finish workmanship and the neck was their best work yet! I have the lowest action I've ever been able to set on one of their guitars on this Regal! Very impressed with the workmanship on the new neck and the fret ends are as smooth as could be.

YMMV but my experiences have been great which has definitely built up some Warmoth brand loyalty from me.

 

[Chickenwings]

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just finished this one yesterday. It has one gig under its belt. French polished by hand like old violins. 3lb12 swamp ash body. Vintage modern roasted maple neck with a couple coats of linseed oil. Compound radius 6150 frets. Gotoh hardware (factory relic) with an intonated 3 saddle bridge. Bakelite pickguard. Fralin 5% over broadcaster bridge and 2% over neck. 250k pots with a .022uf cap. Excellent vintage 1970s calfskin leather jacket by Remy.

This one was my first build. Also finished in french polish. Rosewood board on a dual truss rod "pro" neck. compound radius and 6150 frets finished in vintage tint nitro. Pearly gates in the neck and Jerry Donahue in the Bridge. 4lb body. Joe Barden compensated bridge. 500k pots with and extra resistor for the bridge so it sees 250k. fender amp knobs.

 

[Snake Aces]

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just finished this one yesterday. It has one gig under its belt. French polished by hand like old violins. 3lb12 swamp ash body. Vintage modern roasted maple neck with a couple coats of linseed oil. Compound radius 6150 frets. Gotoh hardware (factory relic) with an intonated 3 saddle bridge. Bakelite pickguard. Fralin 5% over broadcaster bridge and 2% over neck. 250k pots with a .022uf cap. Excellent vintage 1970s calfskin leather jacket by Remy.

This one was my first build. Also finished in french polish. Rosewood board on a dual truss rod "pro" neck. compound radius and 6150 frets finished in vintage tint nitro. Pearly gates in the neck and Jerry Donahue in the Bridge. 4lb body. Joe Barden compensated bridge. 500k pots with and extra resistor for the bridge so it sees 250k. fender amp knobs.

Those are awesome Teles man! Nice work and really nice touch with the Fender amp knobs!

 

[Will S-T]

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Some very inspiring guitars here folks.

Those last two teles are absolutely beautiful !

 

[LazNovak]

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Only the neck is Warmoth on this guitar but it's my favorite neck of all my guitars. Got it in '91.

 

[Snake Aces]

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Sweet man, I could be biased but I love the color combination!

 

[rgand]

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There are some outstanding guitars here. Every one is quite impressive.

i have seen a few folks mention that the frets on the warmoth neck can be a bit hit and miss?

Whats your opinion on this warmoth fan boiz?

Are they tip and top straight out of the box? Ya'alllll

I have only ever purchased truss rods from them. They seem good.

This is my first experience with Warmoth but it sure isn't the last. The neck on this half breed only needed a slight dressing on the ends of two frets. Other than that, it bolted right up and was great after a normal decent setup.

 

[Snake Aces]

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That's awesome rgand!

 

[rgand]

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That's awesome rgand!

Thanks. Looking forward to doing another one.

 

[JollyRoger523]

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This is one I did in 2010. It has its own thread on here somewhere. I went with a WWII jeep or truck theme.

Here is one I just completed. Well almost. Control knobs didn't fit. And it still needs a proper setup.

 

[Snake Aces]

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Those are awesome JollyRoger523!

 

[MetalManiac]

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just finished this one yesterday. It has one gig under its belt. French polished by hand like old violins. 3lb12 swamp ash body. Vintage modern roasted maple neck with a couple coats of linseed oil. Compound radius 6150 frets. Gotoh hardware (factory relic) with an intonated 3 saddle bridge. Bakelite pickguard. Fralin 5% over broadcaster bridge and 2% over neck. 250k pots with a .022uf cap. Excellent vintage 1970s calfskin leather jacket by Remy.

First off, I wanna say congratulations mate, that is the way -the ONLY way you do a warmoth build- at the end of the day,you want to say"no way would I trade this for an American Deluxe".

Secondly, about that jacket, don't you mean 'Ream me'?

 

[Snake Aces]

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that is the way -the ONLY way you do a warmoth build-

Hey, that's a great Warmoth Tele build but there are hundreds of thousands of great Warmoth builds all over the world that beg to differ on this bold statement of yours

 

[Skezza]

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I have a custom built (as in, I built it myself ) Warmoth Strat.

In England, Warmoth stuff is quite hard to get because the shipping is so expensive, so the best way is to crawl eBay for months, waiting for some muppet with way too much money to put a listing on with something along the lines of "bought this to build my own guitar, but didn't know how". Hate to sound harsh, but it's genuinely how it seems to go down in England. You'll be waiting months, but in time you'll get it.

So, with all the waiting and what not, this baby took me about 2-3 years to build.

The body is a Vintage Stratocaster with the 6 screw Trem in. I can't tell the finish from the website, but I'm almost certain it's Lake Placid Blue. If I remember rightly, it's alder, which adds some to the weight. I picked it up off a guy on eBay for very reasonable money, £97. The body is pretty mint except it could with me filling in a hole where the guy tried to fit a jack plate wrongly (the wrong way round, basically). I've never done body repair before, but I reckon a bit of epoxy and the original touch up from Warmoth and I could get it looking absolutely mint.

I got myself an original Fender 6 screw Trem, with the pressed saddles etc. Blows hot and cold in my opinion. Can't decide how I feel about it. Having used Floyd's for much of my guitar playing life, I am used to the comfort and flexibility.

The neck is a 'Modern' Maple Strat neck with a Maple fretboard, but..... and this is perhaps why it took so long to pick one up...... it's scalloped. Cries of anguish by some, I know. It was factory scalloped, but never fitted to a guitar. I drove about 2-3 hours to pick it up, but was so glad I did. Lovely neck to play. I'm not sure what profile it is for sure, but it's either a fatback or a boatneck imo. It would be hard to play if the neck wasn't scalloped, but I have the action just right so playing it is a breeze. I believe he paid about £350 with shipping. I got it for £191.

Finally, the scratchplate is lock stock and barrel off an older YJM Strat including the original DiMarzio pickups (sorry)

Yep, I was going for a Yngwie.

Sounds, and plays brilliantly. I can genuinely get very close to my favourite Yngwie tone (his early tone off Rising Force, he used from 1983 up until about 1990)


I will get some photos of it when I can, but I have to say, for the money, it worked out very well and I'm yet to find a Fender Yngwie that is better.... and trust me, I've tried.

 

[JollyRoger523]

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Those are awesome JollyRoger523!

Thanks!

I posted the pics from my phone last night so I didn't want to type too much. Here are some specs:

Strat is a soloist shaped body in mahogany. Custom 8 pickup. LP is an older true LP shape in korina. The flame is kind of hard to see in the pic, but it has a very nice flame pattern that runs through the entire body, not just a cap! Custom bridge, 59 neck. No special wiring on either. Gotoh bridge and tuners on both. Both necks are q-sawn maple with rosewood and SS medium frets (6105 if I remember right). Wolfgang contour on the Strat, SRV contour on the LP. Warmoth had their LP copyright issues when I ordered the neck for the LP so I went with the Warmoth shape. They had not yet developed their LP similar shapes at that time.

 

[DKSEARS]

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Here are mine. These are probably just the first two.

This was my first. It's a swamp ash body. The neck is 24.75 scale maple with Pao Ferro. The pickups are Seymour Duncan, a Broadcaster bridge and a vintage mini-humbucker near the neck. The control plate is reversed with the volume toward the neck.

This one is a mahogany body with a Koa top. The neck is 24.75 scale mahogany with ebony. The pickups are DiMarzios, a Super Distortion, Air Norton in the middle and PAF Pro near the neck. The SD is wired to its own volume and bypasses the tone control.


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[Chickenwings]

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Secondly, about that jacket, don't you mean 'Ream me'?

lol you wish! :lmao: