Recent content by Orpheo

Don't take the gamble at 6 weeks. The longer, the better. It's that simple. I sand between the coats, and in the end, all I have to do is level sand with grit 1500, wet 1500, wet 3000, wet 8000, use Menzerna 400 on the 3M green pad and I'm done within an hour.

I work in a guitar factory, and I have been digging into personal protection quite a bit. This is what we use: 3M active carbon filter, the 3M 06911. Add: 3M 06925, to filter larger particles (this is technically a dust filter that goes OVER the 6911 filter, and there's even a better P3...

5 piece swamp ash body, 2 piece top, 3 ply veneer between fretboard and neck, 5 piece neck, veneer on the headstock. 17 pieces of wood in total. Sounds like a friggin champ. Sustain, sparkle, chime, balls: it's got it all. 1 piece body, 1 piece neck, and a fretboard. Three pieces in total...

I will keep my very first two Warmoth LP's. I'll revamp the neck/headstock of one, add a new bridge and pickups, but that's it. No new lacquer, no nothing. Just making them usable. But the rest? Gone. And I'm happy for it.

It's over. They're gone. All of them, in one go. Adios!

Overview of ALL of the nine guitars.

Last guitar. 1 piece padouk top, 1 piece wenge back, padouk neck with an ebony fretboard, cross inlay, iveroid binding on top and neck, fatback profile, wide nut. Pickups are a Seymour Duncan Alternative 8/Fullshred Alnico 8 hybrid in the bridge, jazz/59 hybrid in the neck, phat cat in the middle.

Single piece quilt maple top in Tiger eye (warmoth finish), honduras mahogany back, wenge neck, ebony board, cross inlay, ivoroid binding on top and back. Gotoh bridge and tuners, 25.5'' scale, fat wide neck. I have, still, Seymour Duncan pickups and/or AxeRus pickups to go with this guitar...

Koa top, honduras mahogany back. Brazilian rosewood neck, ebony board, trapezoid inlay. Only binding on the body. Seymour Duncan Zephyr Silver pickups. Gotoh hardware. Warmoth poly finish. Flamed maple top, honduras mahogany back. Brazilian rosewood neck, ebony board, trapezoid inlay. Only...

Flamed koa top, walnut core, figured walnut back (handpicked). Quilted bubinga neck, walnut headstock veneer, macassar ebony fretboard. Pickups are the 59/Custom hybrid in the bridge, phat cat in the middle, 59/jazz hybrid in the neck. Sperzel tuners, Gotoh Floyd Rose (no locking nut, so you can...

1 piece solid flamed maple top (not a laminate) with ivoroid binding, 1 piece honduras mahogany back, purpleheart neck, ebony board with ivoroid binding, cross inlay, fatback profile (because the neck doesn't need a finish you can shape the neck as you please), wide nut, 25.5'' scale. Gotoh...

My headstocks have a 9 degree angle with a scarf joint. Works like a charm. No issues with strings popping out of the nut, etc. My scarf joint is in the headstock, not in the neck. Because the angle is so shallow and I use a 21mm thick neck blank, the entire scarf joint is hidden underneath the...

Warmoth is a great blank slate for the future. I discovered that to make a warmoth go from good to absolutely ridiculously amazing, a lot of work has to go in it, like leveling, crowning, polishing frets, doing the fret ends etc. It's fairly OK out of the box but you need to do a lot of work.

Only as warmoth with a decal. Not by me :)

I'll add more photos later. I have more.