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Vintage Modern, Right Handed Handed, Maple, Indian Rosewood Fretboard, 1-11/16" Nut Width, Clapton, SS6230 (Stainless), Vintage Style (11/32") Tuner Ream, 22 frets, Straight 9.5" Radius, Cream Face Dots Inlay, White Side Dots, White Corian, No Finish, 25-1/2" Scale, Standard 4 Bolt


This neck arrived last night and that pic doesn't even begin to show the beauty of the Fretboard . pics to follow . I just did the finish in Minwax wipe-on ( big fan ) Love this stuff . I have a set of staggered Gotohs for it and a custom fretsonthenet plate and control plate should be here in a week or so .

The body is from the 'bay . It's American Cherry and it really caught my eye with it's curls .It's about 5lbs. I did the finish with MW wipe-on and have it already to go . Shes getting a Fender Twisted tele neck p/u and a TX special bridge p/u . Reverse controls , electrosocket and a super cool Armadillo brass bridge http://www.armadilloguitar.com/main/
I also just installed some NOS Charvel brass string ferrules . Won't be long now  :headbang:



 
You don't see too many Cherry bodies, but that one is certainly a fine piece.
 
Cherry darkens up very nicely with age.  Looking forward to seeing it in a few years.
 
Among fine furniture makers, cherry is "normal" wood and alder is a cheap, 2nd-grade substitute - used for the inside braces and drawer bottoms, if at all. Cherry is a fine sonic choice too, it's only due to St. Leo's fundamental cheapness and the inexorable grind of time that alder became "soo-purb tonewood" and cherry became "huh?"
The weirder your sense of humor is, the more enjoyable those comic l'il humanoids become. :hello2: Thank goodness for something.....

Did you get this from Mike Curb, by any chance? He's tearing UP them old-growth Appalachian forests....

 
StubHead said:
Among fine furniture makers, cherry is "normal" wood and alder is a cheap, 2nd-grade substitute - used for the inside braces and drawer bottoms, if at all. Cherry is a fine sonic choice too, it's only due to St. Leo's fundamental cheapness and the inexorable grind of time that alder became "soo-purb tonewood" and cherry became "huh?"
The weirder your sense of humor is, the more enjoyable those comic l'il humanoids become. :hello2: Thank goodness for something.....

Did you get this from Mike Curb, by any chance? He's tearing UP them old-growth Appalachian forests....

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ha , for a second  there I thought maybe you had the seller as he has mostly Walnut and that body is stunning , is that yours ? The seller is mattswoodworking-2008  .
 
I did a cherry tele a few years ago, mines hollow. Cherry top and back, I let mine age in the sun for several months before the nitro finish. :icon_biggrin:

http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=4913.0

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While we are gathered here for this solemn occasion, I would firstlymost like to thank our esteemed Warmoth Big Daddios for not pulling a jackass Gibson or Ernie Ball forum immoderation move and absolutely, definitively, totally erasing any mention of anything but their own product. Gibson you'd expect, but Ernie Ball has crafted a careful image as extremely-dedicated, but fun-loving, happy-go-lucky California guitar hippies... yet supposedly, if you post something to the effect of
"Improving upon Leo Fender's blarg-de-doo, my fantastic new Ernie Ball..."
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Nuh-uh. There were no guitars before Music Man, there still aren't and there never will be. And if you say "I have a problem with my $4,000 Petrucci, the action's too high!" forget it, banned for life, your house is razed, children sold to the dog food factory & your family DNA is excised from the Akashic Record. For there ARE no problems, they don't even have issues! (gesundheit).

But it renders their forums entirely boring and gutless, hence useless, hence the same four guys talking the same foolishness... So thanks Warmoth, while we praise the work of direct competitors! They have good reason to remain confident - and, I do idly wonder how much money swings their way as a result of this here un-o-fish-fro, if a mere 50 people each spent a mere $1,000 per year, that be $50,000, and we're not all so mere. And I suspect that Ken Warmoth is not too far removed from his own youthful hardscrabbling about in search of an instrument that felt like this but sounded like that. And cost like that... :guitaristgif:

The walnut bod is mine, cut by Mike Curd. He cut wood for a whole bunch of Texas "custom luthiers" over the years, but the hills called him back and now he's working at home. And as he's surrounded by cherry and walnut he can just poke up the road and buy a whole tree when he needs one.


.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashic_records
 
Awesome ! Hey looky at the Warmoth neck going on this slab


and so it begins..


for me installing tuners is still the biggest deal so it's take it nice and slow getting those things on right .

wired , reverse & 50's
 
so it's pretty much done . I'm waiting for a custom Aluminum control plate which should arrive next week so I can't screw this one down just incase it's different . So good news is it sounds damn good . I'm gonna track it right now :D

 
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