Recent content by CrabCakes7

Update for anyone following along I received the third and last neck from my earlier orders and unfortunately it's also no good. The neck has a pretty significant S-shape to it, with large humps in the fretboard at the 1st and 12th~14th frets and hollow valleys in between. So the fretboard...

I mean no disrespect but I am a "local tech". I don't do this as my primary source of income but I do work on guitars in a professional capacity. There absolutely are limits to my knowledge and abilities but I do what know I'm doing here. That being said, there's really only 2 ways to address a...

An update for anyone who's interested. Unfortunately, not really any good news. It's been roughly 4 weeks since the first neck was sent back and I haven't heard anything so I gave Warmoth a call. Joe is the CS rep who's been helping me with this thus far. In short, outside of an initial...

I'm sorry but that is incorrect. Warmoth's double rod design in their modern construction necks is single action. Here is a video explaining how their Modern Construction truss rod works: Notice how the rod starts out straight before the nut is even on and tightening the nut will cause it to...

Thanks Waraxe, I appreciate you sharing your experience. Although it was really tempting to try and fix it myself, I ultimately decided against it as it would be on me if I messed anything up. Some good news for a change though. Warmoth did finally get back to me and we were able to come to an...

Yeah, both of the necks I've had issues with so far have had SS frets as well. They do require a lot more care to install properly in my experience but the expectation is that if Warmoth is offering them as an option that they should be capable of installing them properly. Did the glued fret...

Another neck I had on order came in this afternoon with similar fret install issues. Luckily not backbowed like the first, but several frets weren't fully seated on this one as well. It actually looks like the fret slots on the upper half of the neck weren't cut deep enough. I think I've...

You are correct in that they are incorrect. You absolutely can use notched straight edge to measure the relief of a compound radius neck but the straight edge must be perfectly centered and perfectly parallel to the fretboard to get a good measurement. You're essentially measuring the...

The neck arrived with a very slight amount of tension on the truss round out of the box. I attempted to loosen it to alleviate some of the backbow but it only had around a half turn of adjustment before it was fully loose and no further correction could be made. It is cold where I live...

Unfortunately, the CS response thus far hasn't been great which is where a good bit of my concern stems from. When I first contacted Warmoth they requested pictures of the issues before they would issue an RMA, which felt like a reasonable ask on their part. The frets not being fully seated was...

I've generally had really good experiences with Warmoth in the past, with my last set of 3 bodies and 3 necks purchased in the mid-2010's all being of excellent quality, but my more recent orders have all had major issues that I'm not used to seeing from the brand. I recently received a Strat...