Recent content by TheOtherEric

[ITEM IS SOLD] Warmoth conversion neck, purchased new in 2021. Excellent / mint condition. $300 OBO PP'd and shipped. The neck is now substantially better than how Warmoth ships them -- fret ends were rounded, fretboard edges slightly rolled, frets polished to mirror finish, and neck was...

So you used your router?  I'd like to see the jig you used that the router traveled around on. 

Like said above, if it's a new Warmoth neck, DO NOT try to level the entire fretboard; there's no need and you may just mess it up. Instead, get a fret rocker and go fret by fret looking for high spots, then just level the high spots.  Use 600 grit. YES, 600 grit.  There's absolutely no need to...

Oops wrong subforum.  Can the mods move?

I'm building my first tele, and received the body after a mere 4 week wait. Thanks Warmoth!  Incredibly, they sent me a one-piece body (swamp ash), which I didn't even request.  Wow.  The concept here is a lightly-relic'd tele that looks vintage but with some modern features. So roasted flamed...

I ordered a custom unfinished body on Jan 1 and had it in my hands in 4 weeks.  Great job Warmoth! 

NOT SO!  The instructions explain how you can destroy it.  There are stories of guys turning the side-adjust and hearing the dreaded PING, meaning they just destroyed the truss rod assembly internally. There's an entire 1-page set of complicated instructions and cautions setting up the two...

+1. Not only do I have no use for the side-adjust feature, I completely despise and fear it tremendously.  I just bought my first Warmoth side-adjust neck last year, and I've already completely forgotten how to adjust it properly without destroying it.  This puts me at very high risk of...

Like I explained above, decking (tightening the springs until the trem sits against the body) a FR trem is objectively a BAD IDEA because it won't sit flat against the body and will probably damage the top too.  It's *possible* yours might sit flush and won't damage the body, but very unlikely. ...

What is “one of the main reasons…”? You can get the body you described from lots of suppliers. Like I explained on pg 2, you don’t want to deck a FR trem. That’s not really done since it doesn’t usually work. You need a trem stopper.

Tele into an EL84 amp (e.g. Vox, Dr Z, Magnatone) is a special kind of magic. Really.  It just works better than into a Fender or Marshall, IMHO, for styles like country, blues, americana. 

Like Stratamania said, if you're non-recessed but with a standard non-angled pocket, you'll try to lower the action by lowering the bridge... but then your bridge hits the body and the action is still too high.  So the answer (like The Aaron's quote) is to angle the neck pocket. The big problem...

Correct.  If you want dive only, non-recessed, then specify non-angled pocket.  But may be a possibility of needing a very thin (like .25 degree) shim.  Unlikely though. If you get an angled pocket, you could still make it work but you're guaranteed to require a thick 1 degree shim or thereabouts.

Carved top Soloists are super cool. Downsides: you can't do natural binding, it adds quite a bit of weight, and you don't have the nice arm cutaway on top.  The showcase bodies I saw seemed to weigh ballpark 13 oz more than non-carved top bodies, but OTOH Soloists are generally very light...

You're not going to get what you want. Decking a FR (i.e. tightening the springs down) is not commonly done because of how the FR bridge will hit and ding up the body, unlike Strat-type trems (Fender, Gotoh 510) that can rest on the body with good contact.  Even with a 1-degree shim, the trem...