Recent content by mycroftxxx

Thanks, that decision is made now!

I’m contemplating a new build this spring/summer, and for aesthetic reasons, I want the entire neck to be dark, significantly darker than roasted maple, so I’m considering a solid rosewood neck as a material that is not terribly unusual for a guitar neck. IOW, I’d like to stay with a dark...

You obviously found the explanation on Callaham’s site. I got the “enhanced” saddles in brass and couldn’t be happier with them.

I know that lots of people like the Gotoh In-Tune saddles, and I started off with them on a Tele that I built a few years ago where I wanted the three-barrel bridge…but I was never able to get them satisfactorily intonated. I ended up buying some compensated saddles from Callaham, which worked...

Well, In-N-Out does actually publish their “secret menu” on their website…;)

Is there a summary of all of the off-menu options somewhere? I’ll be ordering a body in the next few weeks for a new build, and I want to make sure I’ve had every opportunity to hand over more money to Warmoth ;)

Try roasted maple with CREAM dots (and white Luminlay while you’re at it). The cream dots nicely set off the roasted maple in a way that black simply can’t do.

I had difficulty intonating a Tele with those saddles; I got a set of Callaham compensated brass barrels and it intonated perfectly. But there are plenty of testimonials from people very happy with the Gotoh In-Tune barrels too, so…anecdata is anecdata.

My first Warmoth build, in 2023, was a Tele and I went with the swapped control plate from the get-go. I also did the traditional brass 3-barrel bridge, but with Callaham intonated barrels to solve the intonation issue, and they work perfectly. That said, it should have been fixed on the...

Wholeheartedly agree. I’ve done two Warmoth builds, and it turns out I’m one of those people who wants it my way. I keep looking at Fender, EBMM, PRS, Reverend…and there’s always something that turns me off. I have a Suhr that I love but I can build a Warmoth that is 95% as good for half the...

Why no cream dots on roasted maple fretboard?? That’s a dealbreaker for me :cautious:

Thanks for the pointer! I find it interesting that nowhere (at least, nowhere that I could find) on their reasonably-up-to-website did I find any mention of the Ilitch system or the Suhr SSCII system. Also, no wiring diagrams for anything other than SSS, and I’m pretty sure my next build will...

Anyway, I got my answer - Warmoth won’t do that rout. No problem with that, and as has been said, Ilitch has several options that don’t require the top rout. But if you’ve ever experienced the Suhr SSCII, which is the same technology, and works with basically any pickups…you may understand the...

Kinman’s is at least as bad, but…yeah. No argument here. And I misunderstood, I will revel in extreme geekdom! :cool:

The Suhr SSCII noiseless system is a very close relative to the Ilitch system - the history I have read says that Ilitch invented it, Suhr used it several years before designing a successor, their SSCII, which John Suhr has acknowledged is very similar to the Ilitch system. The SSCII is the best...