Choose your actual laminate top???

[baillou2]

So I'm new to Warmoth and therefore this might be a stupid question. 

I'm building a solid telecaster body in the little customization walk-through on the site, and after I select my wood (mahogany) it asks me if I'd like to choose a wood for my "actual" laminate top. What does this mean? Is it not one solid piece? What am I missing?

Thanks for any help. Sorry if this is a dumb question.

 

[rgand]

You have the option to go with what top the shop chooses or select your own. There's a slight upcharge to select your own but you know before you purchase what you're going to get. You also get to choose from some mighty nice pieces of wood.

Welcome to the forum.

 

[musicispeace]

If you don't want a lam top but a solid body of just the wood you picked in the start, you can just skip the "unique" lam top step and continue. I think the default is no lam top. Looks like that is just where they stuck the step that allows people to pay extra to pick a specific, currently available unique choice top. I have used the unique choice option on the fretboard in the neck builder if I spotted one that really appealed. And welcome to the forum.

 

[stratamania]

There are a couple of steps, first solid or chambered, then body wood, laminate type or option no laminate. Next step asks if you would like to make a unique choice which is defaulted to No choice. You just skip that step and move to the next.

Its just the way the builder is programmed to cover all options.

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

Yes, it's true, it's the actual piece of wood that would go on your build.
Selecting, grading, pricing, posting them to the website was part of my job when I worked there 8 years ago.

Doesn't apply to showcase obviously.

Now, the world is your oyster! ccasion14:

 

[stratamania]

Or in this case the OP who is building a solid mahogany tele should skip the step choosing a top.

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

Or in this case the OP who is building a solid mahogany tele should skip the step choosing a top.

True.

 

[baillou2]

There are a couple of steps, first solid or chambered, then body wood, laminate type or option no laminate. Next step asks if you would like to make a unique choice which is defaulted to No choice. You just skip that step and move to the next.

Its just the way the builder is programmed to cover all options.

Thanks for the explanation.  I was just confused because I assumed that step would have been omitted if I chose a solid piece. Warmoth does such a good job with their website that I didn't anticipate an unnecessary step being there once that part of the "selection tree?" had been eliminated.
Now that I think about it, I bet they leave it in as a way of saying "Are you SURE you don't want a nice laminate from our amazing selection?" lol

 

[Verne Bunsen]

Now that I think about it, I bet they leave it in as a way of saying "Are you SURE you don't want a nice laminate from our amazing selection?" lol

That is precisely how I have always taken it, something of an up-sell. Welcome to the forum, and I'll look forward to seeing your project should you choose to post about it!

 

[stratamania]

It could be an extra oppotunity to show the tops, but I guess also its one less step programatically to develop.

Probably easier to go from page 1 to 2 to 3 etc with all possible options (including no option) than to have extra conditionals.