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Finally pulled the trigger, Turquoise VIP

cuthbert

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After long thought, especially because I am a foreign customer therefore I am hit by crazy shipping charges, duties and tariffs, I decided to place the order for a high spec Warmoth.

The body is a turquoise VIP that was available in the showroom, now the pics have disappeared but it looked like this:

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The neck needs to be a custom build, I put together a 3A flame neck, conversion scale, Vortex headstock, with wizard profile, 6100SS frets, turquoise dots and also I asked for the rare matching headstock. Even if the neck is flamed I have been told it will require a veneer nevertheless.

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I hope Warmoth will be able to match the torquoise veneer and dots with the current body recreating the "sunburst" finish as well.

Ideally I would have liked 24 frets and a floating bridge, but the body was ready and even with custom builds you can' t never know what you will get in terms of flames.
 
Of course matching headstock was a reason why I bought it. Due to the otrageous shipping charges (200 bucks for a neck and a body, with $170 I can ship an entire guitar in a hard case to the US) that will probably my last purchase from Warmoth so I decided to buy something special and I spent the $260 extra off card option for it.

That means about 2000€ overall including duties, taxes etc...but at least I will have something special somewhat similar to a hardtail Peavey HP Special or HP2.

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These are cool guitars, well made and I think the VIP is closer to them than a PRS, however I didn't like the small frets, flat 16" fretboard and small dots.
 
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