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so: @ValeBliz, @TBurst Std , @Sadie-f, @Rick, @stratamania, @DaveT, and @teleme01, Will do. I feel square heels are better. Even if making a strat. I was told there was no jig with a tele heel for superwides. It might also have been no jig for a tele heel with tilt backs of any sort. I...

It aint finished... but i will take better near finished photos on monday.

This is the only full shot on my phone. I had not glued the bridge on at this point. I will keep looking.

The action is high in this photo. I had not started adjusting nut, truss, or bridge yet. I was messing with the angle of the neck to the body. Note that gap under the fretboard. If this was a tele that gap would not be so pronounced. Sadly, no superwide Warmoth necks can be tele heel. I...

If i have to shorten the headstock i might move the D and G tuners to the locations of nuts in this photo. Eager to hear alternative ideas from anyone reading this. Sadly, the headstock is already too small. I like to play fingerstyle acoustic music with lots of multihand hammerons and I use...

This is me clamping the bridge to the body. I used West System epoxy to glue the bridge. RISKY because you can not steam it off. But, the whole point is moisture resistant. I spent many evenings slowly chiseling the Klos factory finish down to the carbon fiber in the shape of that bridge but...

Screws off easy with a screw driver. Klos sent black screws, but they were too short for my inserts in the Warmoth neck. Black would look better but black things get lost. I will leave them shiny. Shim is made of a hunk of maple I cut from a block that became a Native American courting flute...

This is me finding the ideal location of the Portland Split Saddle Bridge using these adjustable bridge screws from StewMac. Man i wish i had these 20 years ago. It lets you play it before you glue it to the soundboard.

OK will do. But the guitar is not quite done. Plays great. Still have some final touches i want to add. I need to learn how to take better indoor photos of guitars, I will post some. The boat is not able to be photographed right now, but here is one of her the day i got her many years ago...

@ValeBliz, @TBurst Std, @Sadie-f, @Rick, @stratamania, @DaveT, and @teleme01, (I hope I copied all the names in this thread, if not sorry) I am sending a thank you for this discussion. It did NOT go the way I wanted. Not at all. It DID lead to a foolish fumble that turned out ideal. Thanks. I...

Alaska... yes.  Cold and wet in SE Alaska.  But not super cold. SE is pretty temperate thanks to north pacific influence. But also storing boat in Sonora, MX.  Might spend a few summers on the hard in Sonora.  Really hot. But i hope Rick2's feelings hold true....  

I now have a KLOS carbon body for this project.  You talked me out of the electric with headphones idea  I can modify any warmoth neck to bolt onto the KLOS. So, I am most interested in warmoth wood species options.  I am glad i failed to articulate that on the first post because there were...

Someone else said this.  i have never worked with it.  will look into it. 

Sorry. you said that earlier in the thread and I figured you were kidding. I really hate the martin backpacker. It sounds terrible. the fretboard is skinny (although better than most travel acoustic guitars). I agree on most all points. especially that it would make a terrible instrument...

I might be wrong.  online, I am seeing teak praised as making good nunchucks.  Not unlike a guitar neck (i assume). [EDIT: although they DO make nice nunchuckus out of it, this was intended to be a joke as nunchucks are nothing like a guitar ]

Thanks DaveT!! (you posted Feb 8? where did that month go? sorry for the delay) Well.... the guitar would match the boat if i did.  The boat is covered with teak. Part of the reason i fell in love with her.  It has been a long multiyear chore to recondition and refinish all that teak. (she IS...

Talk about wasted potential not even a bodyblank?

Stratamania, this makes me happy and gives hope!  thanks. Is this a 6 string or 7 string superwide?  I think the warmoth super 7 heel is flat like a tele, right? So i presume the photo is a 6 string.  It looks comfy.    I scoured the website, i am sure it is not in a obvious place anymore...

Do you know how broke you all are making me???  ....getting this carbon fiber thing in my head?!?!?!  As I listed reasons why carbon fiber acoustics would not fit on the boat and would not offer a 1 7/8" neck, i remembered that the Klos guitars use a bolt-on neck like an electric.  And I am on...

It sure would be helpful if there were online resources showing neck width and dimensions at numerous lengths up and down the neck.  It is offered for the neck thickness (profiles) but not width.  I can only guess that the heel pocket width is equal to fret 22.  That is an assumption as fret...