Recent content by ActualGenuine

I'm fairly certain the Tele body guitar Maddie often plays on current SNL episodes is a Warmoth build, also.

It's a 32". (I figure if your question was 4 years after the thread start, I can wait a few months to reply. =)

Wow, thank you all for the votes! I must say I did not expect a win given the competition. They are all examples of excellent work and great ideas. I hope to see them resubmitted in the future. I'll be sure to get some better pictures up soon - especially of the headstock veneer, which was...

My stuff arrived! Little story on the top wood, for anyone who noticed my posts in the black korina thread. I had originally included a photo of the top that was similar to the one I'd ordered, since I forgot to keep one. Then, I replaced it with a picture of my actual top on order when Warmoth...

Roasted woods might just be my new favorite. Yours looks great with that semigloss finish.

I thought the point to roasting was to make a wood more stable and somewhat lighter, and had little to do with appearance (as nice as some may be)?

I'm not saying this is the case for WD Music, but I know some businesses in my area were deemed essential for economic reasons. If you aren't open to the public and your employees can work safely, why not?

I just used some graphics programs I have. Transparent masks, cut and paste, etc. The grey background is the default grey from the Warmoth tools for build your own or examining a unique choice top.

Thanks for the replies. I know it'll darken some (I'm going to go with a light tung oil finish and a TruOil top coat, in all likelihood), I'll have to see by how much. I'm not normally a fan of reverse headstocks but wanted one on this guitar to increase the tension on the lower strings than on...

I'm really undecided on the zebra/creme. What do you think? My original thought (as it is in many guitars) was all black, but I saw a really nice black Les Paul with creme rings on zebras and ... well. That's what I'm planning. Am I nuts?

I've got an order in at Warmoth but need to wait until they can get back to work, so I've been mocking up the next project. It's a VIP body, black korina with a unique choice black korina lam top and black binding. The neck is quarter sawn maple, with a black ebony fretboard, reverse...

Magnets and pins (for accurate placement) seem to me to be the way to go for mechanical, but maybe consider Ben Crow's "superglue trick" - a strip of masking tape in several places on the body, a matching strip in each location on the pick guard, and superglue between. Holds really well, but...

Another bass I recently finished, this is my short scale P bass with PJ pickups. The body is roasted swamp ash which I finished with only a couple light coats of tung oil, which was then gone over with a 000-steel-wool-equivalent Scotchbrite pad to just bring out a bit of sheen. The neck is a...

Here's a Z I completed a while back. Both the body and neck were showcase items; it's a satin black alder short scale Z body with a wenge/wenge short scale Warmoth neck. I ordered it with dual MM pickup routs, a Schaler 463 bridge, SS6100 frets, a standard corian nut and Gotoh GB707 tuners...

I ordered a carved-top VIP with a BK laminate. I was dumb and didn't save a picture of it (I've asked Warmoth if they can dig one up for me) but it's very similar to the attached. It'll be on a Black Korina body, with a quarter sawn maple neck / black ebony fretboard (RH reverse Warhead). Now...