Recent content by rogerzilla

It's a nice transparent green, and you can see the grain of the alder.  I didn't specify what colour the reverse should be, and spent 10 weeks wondering if it would be green or black! I didn't post a picture of the back because it's strung with Fender Stainless Bullets, which is what I had to...

And here it is.  It sounds amazing. Alder body, flame maple top, greenburst, Allparts b/w/b pickguard, Warmoth Vintage Modern neck with ebony fretboard, 22 vintage-size stainless frets Fender repro Klusons.  Quite easy to line up using a clamp and a short ruler. "F" neckplate, because they're...

Should be OK then  :) For what it's worth, the TV soldiered on for another decade.

SD Vintage Stacks have 5 wires (one being the uninsulated ground).

You want 0.4mm maximum relief (usually this occurs at about the 7th fret) when the string is fretted at the 1st fret AND the body fret.  To measure this, the guitar must be tuned to concert pitch, although the action doesn't have to be correct, nor do the nut slots. If the relief is too little...

Mine buzzes a little, but I have the action set low (1.9mm at the body fret; 2.4mm is "medium") and it hasn't been levelled yet, which will probably nail it. I needed to *tighten* the truss rod about 1/4 of a turn with no. 10 strings; maybe they ship them ready for no. 9s, maybe it's random.

Following on from http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=3342.0 just the soldering to do.  Everything is cut to length, twisted together, heatshrink wrap applied to the bare bits and waiting for the iron. The last soldering I did was 15 years ago, when I fixed a TV. I'm nervous ...

It's coming together - decal applied and lacquered over (I managed to match the satin finish on the rest of the neck using 600 grade wet and dry, and a bit of buffing with a cloth), Klusons and string tree fitted, neck bolted to body, strap buttons fixed.  I might get it strung today, you never...

H-H Tele with TOM bridge and strings through body?  Now that's esoteric.

They were selling an amazing blueburst quilted maple LP body in the Showcase, even if a bolt-neck LP is, well, a bit strange.

The neck came a few weeks ago - just plopped a few parts on for the photo.  It all lines up beautifully, and the neck is almost an interference fit in the pocket.  I wondered about a white scratchplate, but black sets off the fretboard better, I think. Body: Warmoth Tele, standard routing...

Heh.  I didn't look at the showcase before ordering my body; I could have had a nice flame-top swamp ash Tele with instant delivery for about $5 more than the alder body I ordered with 10-week delivery.  Still, I was always meaning to have alder from the start, so no harm done.

Ideal for Dave Grohl, if you've ever seen the "Everlong" promo video.

That is good practice, although more important for acoustics where the soundboard actually warps and takes time to re-settle if string tension is completely removed.  However, sometimes you need to oil the fretboard, polish the frets or whatever, and they all have to come off.

:icon_biggrin: You're all mad! I always think the TOM bridge is the most classic example of Murphy's Law, because the evil people at Gibson allowed it to fit either way onto the posts, so if you drop it when the strings are off you can never remember which way round it went, and you're bound...