Recent content by Ace Flibble

Warmoth's site has .pdf pickguard outlines you can print out to scale and line up on your guitar to see if it'll fit. If not, WD Music certainly is a decent shout, though they don't offer all pickguards to all countries, and quickly looking now it seems their Charvel guards are all temporarily...

FWIW, I have a PJ P-bass with four controls, and a side jack. It all fits. Ironically, I never touch any of the controls at all and wish I had the jack in the pickguard and a simple on/off toggle... Additionally, I've swapped over jacks and pots on many other guitars, including Jazzmasters...

Seymour Duncan make the Hot Rails in a Tele neck size, and if you wire that up parallel you get a sound fairly similar to the Little 59, though with a little less treble and a bit more in the lower-mids. Don't wire it in series or it'll completely overpower the Little 59 (and just about any...

At least here in the UK, matte or satin 2K is cheaper than satin nitro, and only buying in one type of satin top coat (either type) will always be cheaper than buying in two. The 2K stuff is, in my experience, easier to work with as well, since it cures quicker. Warmoth certainly does do a lot...

Warmoth's 'satin' neck finish is really more of a semi-gloss, and being nitro it buffs glossier very quickly. I don't understand why they don't just use the satin coat they use on bodies. In any case, if you do want something that is a bit glossy, Warmoth's satin will do you fine. The Warmoth...

Warmoth don't offer construction that would match the original Mad Cat; the closest you could get would be chambered plus a swimmingpool route (which has to be ordered by e-mail/phone; it's not on the website form). That's assuming they'd still do the unusually close strat pickup routing, too...

Depends on which model of pickup. EMG's active humbuckers and P-90s are thickly insulated on the sides, so any material placed around the edges won't affect them. The underside and top are not as protected, and something like a large brass plate underneath the pickup could potentially alter the...

If they're made like a 'proper' Firebird pickup, the neck will sound quite like a kind of doubled-up Tele neck single coil. They have the same attack, but obviously the second coil and wider design makes them fatter and hum-cancelling. The bridge is more like a doubled-up Strat than a doubled-up...

The Suhr Aldrich are alright for it, though they're not really much different from the JB/59 set; they're as close to a JB and 59 as Suhr could make without getting a cease & desist from Seymour Duncan. They're overwound just a touch, which does make the split sound a bit nicer than with the...

I literally just this past week finished putting together what I promised would be the very last personal build (I have many more guitars than we really have space for and I keep finding ones in the attic that I've forgotten I ever owned), so regrettably I won't be touching it myself, but I just...

I went through the precise measuremnts and shaping in great detail in another thread a few months ago (just search for threads on neck profiles, it shoudl be easy to find) so I won't repeat everything here, but the TL;DR is that all of Warmoth's reference points for their neck profiles...

Warmoth's 'satin' neck finish, at least the last time I had one which must be two or three years ago now, are/were not really satin. If anything they are/were stickier than the gloss finish, which is a simply gloss poly. The satin is/was a nitro finish that hasn't been buffed fully, so it does...

I always think of either plain white or just off-white for cherry bursts; parchement, ivory, or white pearl. Mint or cream are always too much.

If you want as close to a standard Tele arrangement as possible but with a vibrato, there are some bridges which combine both. Wudtone's New Country Telecaster bridge is my favourite, though it's rather expensive and you do need to get the body routed specifically for it. (I don't know if...

I don't understand why Warmoth don't offer the lower 'horn' switch route when it's a feature Fender (and many Fender copies) have been doing for decades now. Though FWIW I find having the toggle switch ahead of the pickups like that is a pain to use mid-song, so I stick a toggle switch where the...