First ever Warmoth Strat! Natural binding trans red with black burst

[Tony Ounsworth]

Ounsworth, but with a bigger "O".

Great, you've been given a choice of two and chosen a third option that doesn't exist.  :icon_scratch:

Joking aside, I think I quite like the smaller lettering. A larger 'O' would look a bit odd I think as you'd risk the entire logo being too long to look good on the headstock.

 

[Tony Ounsworth]

Pickups are here and look even nicer than I thought they would:



Nearly there!

 

[Fat Pete]

That's a really cool look.

 

[Tony Ounsworth]

Thanks, I'm really pleased with it. For a while I had some doubts about the overall look of the guitar, but it's really come together since I got the Warmoth neck and decided on those pickups.

At one point I'd decided to go with all black screws, but actually I think you need the nickel/chrome screws for a bit of bling. Tempted to try a chrome switch tip as well, so that it matches all the metal hardware.

 

[stubhead]

Switch tips are kind of an issue* for me - I usually don't care too much for the standard ones. Fortunately, there's a lot of little stuff out there - I've made them from small neoprene faucet washers, pen parts, but the best is just layers of guitar picks glued together and sanded down. It doesn't have to be right away... the guys who make $5,999 fender copy guitars use fossilized mastodon ivory (No shit! Really!) but that's a little whifty for me.


*(I'm so-oo glad that in this new century, we have eliminated all  the PROBLEMS in the world. We re-name them ISSUES and they just go away.) :toothy12:

 

[SustainerPlayer]

*(I'm so-oo glad that in this new century, we have eliminated all  the PROBLEMS in the world. We re-name them ISSUES and they just go away.) :toothy12:

That's because if you have problems then you have to deal with it yourself. Are you having issues somebody else gonna pay!  :icon_jokercolor:

 

[Tony Ounsworth]

I found a nice looking stainless steel switch tip, so have ordered that. It'll either look great or go in the box with all the other bits!

 

[stubhead]

Don't the titanium ones sound better? :cool01:

 

[Tony Ounsworth]

Well, I'm not calling it finished yet - I haven't done the decal, and it needs a setup - but at last the full guitar is here. Took this snap in a rush this morning, so apologies for the poor quality:



Jumble Jumble did a great job on the frets and the wiring, the man's a gent.

I've got some more tinkering to do, but at some point I'll take some decent photos and maybe do a video.

 

[Tony Ounsworth]

And it's finished! Thread here:

http://unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=22630.msg335464#msg335464

 

[stubhead]

Just one little point (a wee one over there?) - just because you "never use" tone controls - I assume meaning leaving them on 10 - those pots, wires etc. are still in there and you may find that hooking a wire straight-through instead will result in tone that'll explode canaries.

"Wide open pot" does NOT equal "zero load." I mean, take it up with the canaries first and give it a whirl, but there may be a 500K to 750k resistor in your future. :guitaristgif:

 

[Cagey]

Mmm... exploding canaries... what could possibly be wrong with that?

 

[Tony Ounsworth]

Just one little point (a wee one over there?) - just because you "never use" tone controls - I assume meaning leaving them on 10 - those pots, wires etc. are still in there and you may find that hooking a wire straight-through instead will result in tone that'll explode canaries.

"Wide open pot" does NOT equal "zero load." I mean, take it up with the canaries first and give it a whirl, but there may be a 500K to 750k resistor in your future. :guitaristgif:

Thanks, but I knew all that before I did it.

It certainly is brighter than I am used to, and at first I was unsure about this. We recently recorded a gig from the mixing desk, and when I heard my guitar in isolation I was a bit worried that it sounded too brash. However, once mixed I was quite pleased at how it cut through, so I'm going to leave it as it is for now. Jumble and I have discussed some options to bleed off the treble if it is a bit much, but for now I'm happy with it.

Here it is in action. I've selected our shortest song to spare you too much pain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3UE2E9IUWw

Very pleased with the lead tone I get on it. The only word I can think to describe it is "juicy".

Apart from anything else, it's wonderful not having any controls in the way of my hand when playing.

 

[stubhead]

Jumble and I have discussed some options to bleed off the treble if it is a bit much...

Like, a TONE KNOB! WhoooHoooHAR sczrt!  :laughing11: :laughing7: :laughing3:
(Sorry, I just couldn't hep myself...)

I just bought up a little pile of these things:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/221106721090?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

They can be used as an internal trim pot, like some people use them to balance out a Strat-type guitar that they've gone and put some howling 14K bridge humbucker in, thereby ruining any sort of "balanced" output. I seem to remember that Brent Mason stuck one or more into his primer-gray FrankyTelecaster to balance the standard tele bridge PU with the middle Strat PU and neck mini-humbucker - although I don't remember where they went.

BTW - Thet thar search - is where you go to get pots that are sold and priced as electrical components, rather than Secret Mojo Voodoo guitar parts, triply-priced... as in:

If you can't hear the difference - you're not READY for this here potentiometer...

Thereby inducing 3 million guitarists to leap about the bedroom shrieking I CAN HEAR IT! I CAN REALLY HEAR IT! I'M READY! I'M SO-OO READY! :headbang:

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[Jumble Jumble]

Yep, over here we'd go for something like this:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/500kandohm-carbon-vertical-sub-miniature-fully-enclosed-preset-potentiometer-n56br