Recent content by beardfish

I was worried about dive when picking neck and body woods, given the length of the warmoth baritone conversion I thought that would compound the issue. I believe even if there was dive you can compensate for it with the top strap button positioning. Bear in mind I keep my straps short. You...

Got the guitar back from another local shop where it was in for a level/crown/polish. No buzzing which is great - the shop did a nice fallaway on the last few frets. Just finished drilling out pilots for the strap buttons and installed a pair of Dunlop Straploks, thankfully there's no neck dive...

The guitar has been playing great as I'm working on the setup still. I'm pretty new to doing any actual setup work so it's been a slow process. Not much looking different other than it has strings now, obligatory tele plumber's crack pic included Setup Process: I originally strung up the...

The string ferrules I ordered originally (SKU was GSF1C from Warmoth in January) were too big for the Warmoth Telecaster Replacement Body (SKU: GB-T) with a vintage telecaster bridge rout. I found some Fender string ferrules locally (Fender Modern Style Telecaster String Ferrules p/n...

I'm in the home stretch of finishing a build that I've been acquiring parts piecemeal for over the past year and a half. I still need to figure out the string ferrule size situation, and see if this thing can intonate. The build is a Baritone telecaster in roasted swamp ash with a clear satin...

Sometimes the simplest solutions work the best - was worried the pickup leads might get damaged but was able to bend them back out of the way and there's enough clearance now - great success I'll post when im done with this build. Thanks everyone.

my bad I did say 5 holes for the bridge before, I meant 4 screw holes + 1 hole for the bridge ground I popped a different pickup in the Rutter's bridge and was able to get it mounted and some strings on it as requested. So it looks like the issue is just a combination of the original Fralin...

I took the pickup out since the bridge is basically fixed in place with the pickup installed. I wasn't able to center the mounting screw holes on the Rutter's bridge with the routing on the body - the spacing is on the bridge itself seems off: I have a 6-saddle bridge here from a MIM tele with...

Just received a Telecaster replacement body I ordered for a Warmoth baritone tele build. I had been hoping to use this Rutter's vintage spec bridge with it but am having an issue with the fit where the 4 screw holes don't line up with the Warmoth vintage 5-hole tele routing. I understand...