Re: What's up with the Warmoth website?
Thanks for the tips, y'all!! I used SpyBot, but I still get the same website, not Warmoth's. Going to try it on another computer.
loudriver23: I'm building a Tele from scratch. I have a 20 yr old Strat I built and it has a solid rosewood neck (neck and fingerboard are the same wood). The sound is marvelous! I got an itch to build another guitar after I played a real nice Tele at a little music shop in upstate NY. I want a rosewood neck with an ebony fingerboard. I'm making the body out of two woods - padauk and cocobola. Padauk has a marvelous ringing, woody quality to it (makes great marimba keys), and cocobola is a close relative of Brazilian rosewood and is more colorful, too. The top of the body will be 3/8" thick bookmatched cocobola laminated to a 1 3/8" thick slab of padauk. I imagine that the tone will be bright and woody at the same time - really delicious! I built a bass using padauk as the main wood (with a zebrawood laminated top) and it has a wonderful woody tone to it. So imagine the classic Tele twang with a lovely woody resonance added - that's what I'm going for! Hopefully, it'll come out sounding right.
If the tone is right on, I'm thinking of adding the GraphTech piezo saddle pickups to it. Mixing an acoustic tone with the Tele twang should be really sweet! That'll come later, though, and only if I'm happy with the guitar's electric tone first. I'm pretty excited about it. I built about a half dozen guitars years ago (of which I have two) and it was really rewarding. I love experimenting with different designs, but the Tele is such a classic design and tone that I have to make one...