Favorite Warmoth Wood/ Neck Combinations

[arealken]

Its hard to go wrong  with any advised Combos, but I just assembled a Warmoth  Koa body and  a warmoth Goncalo Alves / Ebony Fretboard Strat. With Custom wound '61/62 style vintage spec pickups, it's like nothing I have ever heard. IN a short word, ASTOUNDING tone. This combination works, trust me!

That said, I have so many other great combos- Walnut/Rosewood just to scratch the surface.

 

[Cagey]

I couldn't pick a favorite for tone, although I lean toward brighter stuff. You can always filter frequencies, but you can't generate them. For instance, you can get an Ebony over Maple neck to sound like Rosewood over Wenge, but not vice-versa. Of course, you need some better filters to do it - the bass/treble knobs on most amps aren't going to get you there. But, given the right filters you can make a solid body electric guitar sound very much like an acoustic. Many of the early modelling amps weren't much more than collections of painstakingly tuned parametric EQ settings.

So, when I get to thinking about favorite necks, I think more along the lines of looks and feel. For that, a nice piece of black Ebony over Pau Ferro is pretty sublime. I couldn't call that my favorite, though. There are others that feel just as nice but have different appearances. Kingwood over roasted Maple, Pau Ferro over roasted Maple, Black Ebony over Bloodwood... the list is long.

 

[frown]

Roasted Maple / Roasted Maple
Black Ebony / Pau Ferro
Bubinga / Bubinga


In summary, raw, hard, dense, smooth and spanky sounding types do it for me...  :icon_biggrin:

 

[rgand]

For the most part, I'm easy to please.
Roasted maple/roasted maple or
Roasted maple/rosewood (this one I haven't done yet but probably will on my next build)

 

[Wizard of Wailing]

      Goncalo Alves / Ebony is my favorite.  I've got four necks with that combo.  I like all the Warmoth neck combos, as long as they have NO pores.  I can't stand pores on the neck or fretboard.  For my next build I'm planning on going back to basics with a maple / maple neck.

 

[musicispeace]

Afraid I am pretty plain vanilla, love maple with rosewood on the front but my Bubinga/Bubinga is WONDERFUL in both tone and feel.

 

[new-killer-star]

umm... I kind of want one or two of each. I'm a little worried about the number of guitars that implies and keeping the strings fresh, but I guess there are worse problems to have.

 

[Cederick]

Since I don't really care about wood as "tone" I mostly prefer wood because of weight, or stability...

Light = basswood (even tho my main superstrat with basswood is quite heavy, haha)
Stability = Roasted maple (maybe will try quartersawn some day)

 

[Cagey]

No point to quartersawn if it's roasted, unless you're buying out of the showcase and like the grain alignment better.

 

[MikeW]

Canary/Black Ebony and Pao Ferro/Pao Ferrod are a close 1 and 1.a. for me.