new to this forum, I thought I'd post my finished products:
on the left is my jaguar, warmoth alder body, warmoth maple neck with cbs style headstock, rosewood fingerboard, graphtec nut, grover tuners, bigsby B-5 trem, ABM tune-o-matic bridge with graphite roller saddles, and 2 seymour duncan antiquity humbuckers. The pickups are unmistakably gibson sounding, but it still retains some jaguar tone. Kind of heavy for such a small guitar, but Warmoth only does the double truss rod for the small scale necks. finish is warmoth's own olympic white.
On the right is my baby, another alder body from warmoth, but was modified by Koll guitars/12th fret here in Portland to become a hollow body, complete with f-hole. sadly warmoth wouldn't help with any of the custom work, but the finished product is well worth the extra effort. Again I used a warmoth maple neck with cbs headstock, rosewood fingerboard, medium jumbo frets, graphtec nut and the same bridge, trem, and tuning machines as the jag. the pickups are original (one is a '73 and the other a '75) seth lover fender humbuckers, NOT reissues. It's wired like a '72 tele thinline. Very punchy low end, crystal highs and a crunchy midrange. you just cannot touch the tone on these pups. Easily the best guitar I've ever played. Thanks for looking.
cheers.
on the left is my jaguar, warmoth alder body, warmoth maple neck with cbs style headstock, rosewood fingerboard, graphtec nut, grover tuners, bigsby B-5 trem, ABM tune-o-matic bridge with graphite roller saddles, and 2 seymour duncan antiquity humbuckers. The pickups are unmistakably gibson sounding, but it still retains some jaguar tone. Kind of heavy for such a small guitar, but Warmoth only does the double truss rod for the small scale necks. finish is warmoth's own olympic white.
On the right is my baby, another alder body from warmoth, but was modified by Koll guitars/12th fret here in Portland to become a hollow body, complete with f-hole. sadly warmoth wouldn't help with any of the custom work, but the finished product is well worth the extra effort. Again I used a warmoth maple neck with cbs headstock, rosewood fingerboard, medium jumbo frets, graphtec nut and the same bridge, trem, and tuning machines as the jag. the pickups are original (one is a '73 and the other a '75) seth lover fender humbuckers, NOT reissues. It's wired like a '72 tele thinline. Very punchy low end, crystal highs and a crunchy midrange. you just cannot touch the tone on these pups. Easily the best guitar I've ever played. Thanks for looking.
cheers.
