Recent content by jjwu

Any brave souls take one on? My questions: is the headstock tiltback? is the string pull over the nut straight? how was shaping your own headstock? pics welcome! Only reason I'm considering it is because their normal 7-string doesn't have straight pull over the nut and I want to use a trem...

Upper fret access needs to be paramount. The current 7/8 S comes up short. A 7/8 Dinky is in order. Interestingly Jackson used to make a Gibson scale super strat they called Fusion that similarly had suboptimal upper fret access. You can find pics. They tried to mediate it with a bevel--which...

That's sleek. But how did you pair the mustang neck with the 7/8 strat body? Did they custom rout the bridge and pickup for the 24" scale?

Their specs are typically 12-16" compound radius. But their Floyd-equipped guitars come with the R3 nut which is 10". Out of curiosity I tried a 12" radius locking nut (1000 series R3) and it did NOT work. The low and high strings were too high, middle strings too low. I also tried the R4 nut...

Just discovered Stewmac has this nifty tool: https://www.stewmac.com/fret-calculator/ Indeed 28-5/8 is 25.5 extended. Interesting that no one ever did a baritone extension of 24.75 which would be about 27.75. That's a happy medium between the usual 27-28 scale. 28-5/8 always seemed a bit of a...

Interesting. I figured you'd stain the top, then put it on the body. Then you wouldn't need to mask, at least for customers who opt for the "laminate accent line" or no accent. You don't do it that way? I noticed if you choose laminate accent line, the only paint option is "clear."

I'm fond of this aesthetic. Does Warmoth do this? Even without binding?

Is it 25.5" plus 2 frets? Like if you put a capo on the 2nd fret you'd effectively have 25.5" 22 frets?

I was dismissive of Bladerunner because it's like Vega without the range but I just remembered I could [reluctantly] recess it myself. And then the advantage would be a more substantial block which in theory would help flutters. I recessed a hipshot once. It'd be nice if Warmoth offered even a...

Hipshot's website says their contour trem is a drop-in replacement for Fender. So what's the separate hipshot rout? Is it (or can it be) recessed? For Vega trem, I've seen a couple videos where it initially can't do pull-ups because the rear edge doesn't clear the top rear edge of the rout on...

+1 for a 7/8 Soloist either way. Browsing pics of the Strat 7/8, upper fret access isn't quite what it could be. Funny they do something new and we're immediately on their asses for the next new thing. 😁

Ok so we know it's not a more sculpted heel. I'd guess deeper cutaways so you can use their 24 fret extension with better access. Btw why do y'all call it Soloist and not Dinky? 😋

Any reputable tech should have no issue with compound radius. It would be obvious too. Ends sticking up, or middles sticking up. And I would guess stability would be all over the place. Got my Jackson refretted by Aperio. Never played better!

Big part of Warmoth's appeal is USA-made at import prices.

Duncan's Malmsteen pickups are my favorite so far. Ultimately had my guitar's original pickups rewound by Duncan custom shop. But for stock noiseless single coils, YJM Furys are awesome.