Recent content by ruscio

If necessary, you might be able to find shorter screws on eBay or Reverb. I bought some for a Gotoh 1996t a few years ago, can't recall the seller though.

I'm not going to argue that it's a *good* idea to do it, but I will admit that I'm well aware of the "area of incompatibility" and that I've safely ignored it on several occasions. For example, I contoured the heel on this Warmoth strat body using a Fender rounded neck plate as a guide, and it's...

I agree with the positive comments. I've ordered many Warmoth bodies and necks, from the showcase and custom, plus a lot of hardware. I've had very few occasions to call Warmoth for anything, customer service or otherwise, but in those instances they've been terrific. This is not a company...

I'm now curious to hear the official answer, too, but my guess is that adding Tru-Oil to a neck that doesn't require a finish won't invalidate the warranty. With regard to "at least thicker than gunstock oil", that would really depend on how much is applied--how many coats, and how much is...

Thanks for another great video, Aaron! I've got locking tuners nearly all of my guitars, even those with locking nuts, for convenience in string changes. I just got a new guitar a couple of weeks ago, and before I replace the tuners with lockers I I'm going to try your method. That looks much...

I'll second @Rick 's suggestion that there are plenty of woods that don't need a finish. Roasted maple seems pretty popular, and two of my favorites are canary and wenge.

Thanks again for the help in this thread. I went with a Fender super switch and got it wired up today. Took the opportunity to clean + oil the fretboard and give it fresh strings, too, this one's even more of a joy to play now. This is a "before" pic, but thankfully it didn't look any different...

Got it, thanks very much for the thoughtful explanation. Who knew that there were good reasons for something!

Great video, helpful to have more info on what is and is not possible. Any chance the website could feature a more complete listing of off-menu options we can/cannot order by phone? I understand that they can be hard to build into the ordering menus, but they could still be listed on a...

Awesome, thanks SO much for your help!

If I go with this switch + diagram, provided by @supertruper1988 above, can someone confirm for me what the DiMarzio wire colors would be? It looks like each pickup splits into black, gray, red, green, and black (again) in this diagram, so I'm not certain how to map this onto the red, green...

It looks like both models of 5b5 only work with 3-pickup configs, but that should work b/c the guitar I have in mind does have a single-coil middle pickup. I've had it disconnected b/c I never use it; I replaced the original 5-way with a 3-way so I could get N + B in the middle. Maybe it's time...

I recently got a guitar with two HBs that also has a coil-split feature, and even though I mostly use the full HBs, I am finding that I like to use the coil-splits sometimes. I've got another guitar with a 3-way strat-style switch controlling two DiMarzio HBs, giving me bridge (series)/bridge...

Another terrific video! Based on personal experience, but more importantly a lot of videos of this type, I think that nearly all of what we hear from an electric guitar, tonally, is down to the pickups. That's it. Mount them in or on anything, not even a guitar, and then move strings in front of...

That's a stunning neck, GLWS!