First Warmoth Guitar - Butterscotch 52 Telecaster Project

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

Pure class!

 

[Heavy Rock]

Love the color! I'd leave the insect in, Jurassic Park style.
Yep, if you don't rush and wait until it's dry and sand it, it's easier to get rid of it, but needs patience. I do the same mistake all the time.

 

[Ted. Wu]

after 2 rounds of sanding and repair, waiting for the appropriate tempreture and humidity (around 60F and 91% recently) to continue...

 

[Hodgo]

That’s looking great. Is this the final color?

 

[Ted. Wu]

That’s looking great. Is this the final color?

It has been applied 2 color coats, and I still have to apply 1 more color coat. I have bought yellow iron oxide, considering to add this color in the 3rd coat to add more vintage vibe

 

[TBurst Std]

I enjoyed the series much.

 

[Strat Avenger]

Looks great.

 

[Ted. Wu]

I have receive the pickups, hand-wired by my friend.
I have noticed that the vintage tele body made by warmoth has swallow depth pickup routs around 16mm. The height of the pickup is 16mm, and I should have 5-6mm spacing for the soldering and wire under the pickups. I am not sure about whether I can mounting the pickups into the body...

 

[rockandroller]

Yeah, there is a warning about the shallow routing on the website (details page for that body, IIRC)

 

[Tretgeraet]

I have receive the pickups, hand-wired by my friend.
I have noticed that the vintage tele body made by warmoth has swallow depth pickup routs around 16mm. The height of the pickup is 16mm, and I should have 5-6mm spacing for the soldering and wire under the pickups. I am not sure about whether I can mounting the pickups into the body...
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Should still work just fine:
On my Warmoth telly the bridge pickup stands out about 6mm from the bridge plate and the neck pickup stands out 3 - 3,5mm from the pickguard, which itself is 2,5mm thick.

And also your pickups don't look particularly tall to me.

 

[Hagwood]

Looking great, very classy. Those damn bugs are a PITA, I finally learned to just walk away and not even look at it until it's dry, then repair and move on. Patience is always the key in finishing, and not my strong point.......