Warmoth roasted alder

[ItsaBass]

Just curious if any of you have tried a roasted alder body from Warmoth.

Theoretically, seems like it might have a little merit, especially for pre-stabilizing neck lumber. My thought is it might add a little stability to a whole guitar too, and maybe take a sliver of weight off along with it. As for tone, maybe... "Might" being the key word; I'm not sure I totally buy the jive.

Any experience with roasted alder bodies? I'm thinking about one for a slim (1-1/2" thick) Tele-Gib build with EJ Custom Humbuckers (which are designed to sound like Gretsch pickups). I want it to be a lightweight guitar, but tonally balanced with the pickups, which I expect to be bright.

 

[Clint 55]

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Did you email the friendly folks at Warmoth?

I'm scheming about woods for my next guitar also and might have to chat with them.

 

[MetalManiac]

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Quality Roasted Alder changed the the game on Strats, and Warmoth is a key player. It lets you have , for all intents and purposes, the very next best thing to an air dried Vintage Strat..the difference is in the old select woods used in the vintage Fenders, and that cannot be replicated..plus you do not have the complete hand crafted by old master craftsman, along with the vintage electronics which can be approximated, but never really replicated , which is why old Starts are so supremely good..But roasted Alder a great thing with the quality wood Warmoth uses.

 

[Mincer]

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I've never used it, but it certainly looks cool. I dig how 5 years ago, 'roasted' woods weren't a thing, now it is a really big thing. We are still figuring out cool stuff to do with wood.

 

[Lazarus1140]

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No experience with roasted Alder, but I bought a roasted Maple neck. The look and feel are sexier and more organic than you could possibly imagine. I like forward to finishing its home and installing it.

 

[Demanic]

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Roasting tightens up any grain.
Roasted ironwood anyone?

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[treyhaislip]

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Not used Roasted Alder, but have two Roasted Swamp Ash bodies from Warmoth (one is a bass project currently in the works.)

My Tele is amazing—super lightweight and has lots of sustain. It does sport a Roasted QS Maple Neck with a brass nut and brass saddles (just for fairness sakes on the sustain.)

I am more for Swamp Ash due to the wood grain, but from my experience with a Warmoth I wouldn’t have any hesitations about their Roasted Alder.

Kinda impossible to “compare” these guitars to un-Roasted Counterparts; however, these guitars are by far the lightest solid bodies I’ve ever owned—even lighter than my Nitro Basswood Strat with a Roasted Maple Neck.

Hope that helps!

 

[Mincer]

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How is the neck/body balance on these? ^

 

[treyhaislip]

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How is the neck/body balance on these? ^

Can’t say yet on the Bass as I haven’t installed the tuners yet BUT the Tele is extremely well balanced. No neck dive, very comfortable whether sitting or standing.

Edit: FWIW the Bass feels a tad “bottom” heavy when I hold it; however, I think the tuners will even it out on such a long Neck.