Recent content by SoundAsAnOldEngineer

My acoustic guitar (Lowden) has a 1 3/4" neck width and that suits me pretty well, so I wanted to get the same kind of neck on my Warmoth Tele. An earlier version of my Tele had a 1 11/16" nut width with the '59 Roundback profile, and that was nice. I found a 1 3/4", 59 Roundback, neck in good...

I've not played a P/J hybrid, although I rather wish I'd had my Warmoth P-bass body routed for a J bridge pickup. A P/J clearly does everything that a P-bass does, but I suppose that the P/J hybrid is not entirely a substitute for a J bass, because the characteristic growly tone of the J bass is...

Ghotiphry and Fat Pete: You're both very kind!

Thanks! The pickguard was Warmoth, and the control plate was Fender. It was a big gap, not just a hairline thing. This was my third or fourth Warmoth project, and the first where the neck didn't quite fit the pocket, but it genuinely didn't take more than 10 minutes to sort it out.

Well, this project isn't going to win any prizes for pushing the boundaries of guitar design, but I'm very happy with the result, and there are a few lessons learned that might be of interest to another J-bass builder. I picked an unpainted Swamp Ash body from the Showcase and had Warmoth...

I have the same problem on a J-Bass project, with a standard Fender control plate and a Warmoth pickguard. I didn't expect such a big difference between these two parts. The fit of the pickguard on the heel of the neck and on the neck pickup is really precise, so the "V" shape is not just sloppy...

I'm in the UK. I found a good source of Birch dowels from a shop that supplies materials for model aricraft and such like. They also have some very hard and very thin Birch sheets of 0.016" that make good neck shims.

I think that the bridge might also play a big part. I recently did a Tele bakeoff between a Fender '52 re-issue Tele and my Warmoth, both with the Fender '52 re-issue bridge pickup, and both with Ash bodies. Both sounded great, but the Fender had more twang. As it happens, I think the Warmoth...

Thanks very much. I hadn’t previously appreciated exactly how the dual-action truss rod is supposed to work. Now I’ve seen a picture of the mechanism inside the neck I can see how the rods can provide either a convex or a concave shape. I suppose I should have taken more notice of the “dual...

The neck wood is Flame Maple, with a Rosewood fingerboard. It's finished by Warmoth in vintage tint gloss. All fairly standard stuff. The instructions referenced by Updown say "Tighten the slotted heel adjust nut (A) until the fingerboard is perfectly flat (no forward curve)". In my case, the...

I hope someone can provide a bit of advice on the set up procedure for a Warmoth Pro neck. Advice from Warmoth is to remove the string tension, reset the side adjuster, and then set the heel adjustment so that the neck is flat. Here's the first problem: my Telecaster neck is convex (in other...

I used 250k with the SM-1N.

I have the SD Vintage Mini-Humbucker (SM1-N) in the neck position of a Tele with a Fender '52 Re-issue in the bridge position. The output level of the mini-humbucker is a good match for the (low output) single coil bridge pickup. SD say that the sound is cross between single coil and full...

...and the same neck on a white blonde (Mary Kaye) body. I have to say, that the older body was probably a better match for the pickguard and neck.

Here's a photo of a guitar I no longer have. It's an Olympic White body, quite faded, with Warmoth tortoise pickguard and rosewood finderboard.