Show us your Warmoth beast!

[Ace]

I have to admit that my favorite Strat is a Stratoid. The body is from a Fender American Standard Swamp-ash Stratocaster. This was my friends back-up strat that I would lust after. The neck got snapped at a show and I bought the stripped body from my bud. I bought a replacment neck from Warmoth. The neck is fatter and wider than a Les Paul, which is perfect for finger-picking. I put a humbucker in the neck because fatter is betta. Has two EMG-89 and a single EMG-SA in the middle. I also have the EMG-EXG control and an "all off" switch for the Les Paul approved stu-stut-stutter...


www.gritoserpentino.com/images/chicanocaster.jpg

[nickvig]

I've got a couple....I'll post some pics in a day or two.

Better question. Where'd you get the decal?

[PatentAppliedFor]

Here's a shot of mine

[60burst]

I have a Tele that I had made to be like my 61. I don't know who made the ash body but Lay's finished it in nitro for me and I bought a Warmoth neck and put in Harmonic Design pickups. It is a great guitar, but nothing like the 61 I was trying to copy. I use it to experiment with and for outdoor gigs. It sounds good but not even close to my old Teles. Not inferior, just very different. It plays very well. :60burst

[Ace]

A fan of my ex-band Grito Serpentino made me seven of these "Firme Chicanocaster" decals.

[nickvig]

This guitar has a Warmoth alder body finished in 3-tone sunburst. It looks like a deep burgundy on the sides, there's not really any black.

Fender American Standard neck. I got this neck on a fluke at the store where I worked. We were supposed to get a replacement maple neck for a customer under warranty, and they sent the rosewood/maple instead. I lucked out and they let me keep it! All the other parts are USA Fender, the tuning machines, bridge, switch, knobs, neckplate, and string retainers. It has a Warmoth 8-hole vintage pickguard B/W/B and Duncan Antiquity pickups.

My attempt at a cheap SRV strat. I built this back when Warmoth used to give a wholesale discount to dealers. They don't do that anymore!! It plays nice and is very warm and round sounding. The antiquities are a great pickup with the alder body, rosewood/maple combination.

[nickvig]

This guitar is a Warmoth Swamp Ash body, Warmoth vintage spec one-piece birdseye maple w/skunk stripe neck, all Warmoth parts, and Duncan Antiquities. When I bought this guitar, I was afraid if I didn't buy Warmoth parts, none of it would work. When I built the SRV I realized you could use genuine Fender.

I wanted a player's strat, and our Assistant Manager at the store where I worked had a great '64 Olympic White Strat, and I was wanting something similar. The Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock vibe. I only dealt with Tommy at Warmoth at that time, and called him up. Told him I wanted this guitar, painted Olympic White. He said, "We have vintage white, or Arctic white, no Olympic white. But we've just started doing this cool Mary Kaye white, you can kinda see through the finish." So, not knowing what the color would look like, I told him to send it on over. I was very pleased. Not exactly like Jimi's strat, but pretty cool none-the-less.

Of all my strats, I play this one the most. It's real poppy sounding, without being too bright. The neck doesn't feel like any other guitar I've ever picked up.

[GuitarG]

My warmoth parts Tele.
http://www.thefenderforum.com/forum/...=&threadid=565

[nickvig]

This was my first attempt at a Warmoth hybrid strat. I kept seeing a picture of EVH in magazines standing in a batch of 30 guitars on stands and on the floor. In front of him was a strat style guitar with one pickup and a floyd rose. No paint, and a maple neck. I thought that was the coolest thing I'd ever seen! So I built it. But EVH's fingers didn't come with the guitar.

This one started out as a 25.5" scale strat body with dual hums and a Schaller floyd rose. All mohagony body with a Warmoth construction maple neck. The body was odd in the sense that it was white when I got it, and not the typical brown colored mohagony. I finished it in tung oil, and hand rubbed out the finish. Warmoth put in the studs, and the Schaller was all that they sold at the time. After the D-Tuna came out, I switched to the Gotoh floyd because the drop tuner wouldn't work on the Schaller. It was also the same tremolo that was on my MM Axis, and I really liked the look and construction of that trem a lot better than the Schaller.

I was hooked on my Axis, and really liked the switch, so I ordered one from EB and used it for this guitar. It originally had a JB and a '59 in it for pickups. I didn't like they way they sounded, so I put what Dimarzio said were the same pickups from the Axis in it. A Tone Zone bridge and an Air Norton neck. I haven't had the desire to change them, they sound pretty good.

Last year I saw the conversion neck that Warmoth was selling, so I put a birdseye maple neck to convert the scale to 24.75", making it feel a lot more like my LP. It's a cool rock guitar, it's really dark and has a lot of low end and thump. Great for Van Halen or early 80's metal tunes through a high gain amp.

[dubs]

My warmoth tele I built is the one on the left:



swamp ash body finished in transparent forest green, birdseye maple compund radius neck, gold hardware, dimarzio chopper T in bridge and harmonic design Vintage plus in neck and Fender decal to boot!

Darren

[King Friday]

Mine is a late '64 replica,

Warmoth neck, 6100 frets, earvana nut, Kluson tuners
Gregg Rodgers Body, alder, 3 tone
Callaham trem unit, Van Zandts and Duncan JB Jr. PU's
I even had a custom neck plate made L52674 (my b-day)

I've had this a little over a year, nothing I've played has touched it. The frets are starting to show some real wear now, time for a touch up.

http://www.webphotos.com/view_photo....6086&p=1125251

http://www.webphotos.com/view_photo....6086&p=1126344

The link should work now, let me know if it dont.

[greppet]

http://www.blueshome.com/guitars/bil...oth-fender.jpg

best from
Greppet in Sweden

[nickvig]

King:

How do you like that GR body? I'm thinking about getting a #4 distressed from him, kind of a SRV/Rory guitar, but I don't know anyone who's tried his stuff. Your opinion is appreciated.

Thanks

[Cogs]

I saw his stuff at the last guitar show I went to in Seattle. It looks pretty cool, although the heavily "fake-aged" look is not my thing. I'm considering one of his regular (non-aged) 3 tone SB bodies.

[King Friday]

Gregg and Marcia really have a good thing going on. I have had mine for over a year now and dig it. Its a ver nice piece of alder, nice grain. The whole guitar assembled weighs 6-7 pounds. Acoustically it really sounds good, amplified its excellent, nice, warm, and round. The paint job is an excellent 3 tone, no target burst here. The red really isnt pronounced, very subtle. The nitro has already shown some natural checking (look where I live! Winter days are usually 10 to 20 below!)

I got the #3 because the Warmoth neck on it was off another guitar I had been playing and it had some pretty good playing wear on it (especially a huge ding in the headstock where it attacked a cymbal) so a new body would have looked kind of out of place.

Anywho, I love the guitar. I no longer look for a good Strat. It is my main gigging guitar and covers a lot of sonic territory.

Here is a link to my photo page that I used to archive some guitar and amps I have owned. There is some pretty good guitar porn on there

http://www.webphotos.com/list_photos...&smi=1&a=56086

Let me know if there is anything else!

Chris

[Stike]

http://img1.ranchoweb.com/images/stike/pabstocaster.jpg
http://img1.ranchoweb.com/images/stike/evel1.jpg
The Pabstocaster is all Warmoth.
The KnievelKaster is a USACG neck and the body I made out of some rejected alder from Hamer. They get more applause than I ever will.

[wpod]

Here is my quilted Tele Custom . It's a Warmoth Thinline double bound body with quilted maple over mahogany, finished in Tobacco 'Burst. Neck is a '52 RI USA with Klusons. Lace Gold neck and BL280 neck pups and stock wiring. This little hottie is super resonant and sings...

Just finished my USACG UberStrat . One piece ash body(3.5 lbs), finished in Shoreline Gold nitro. Neck is a 1 11/16" with a nice chunky C shape, 6105 frets w/ Schaller locking tuners, vintage satin nitro finish. Callaham Tremelo, block and hardware. BL280 pups, blender and 5 way switch. This play killer, a vintage vibe with some modern updates. I am in strat heaven...

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