Jet-Jaguar
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Soooo.... when Warmoth had their sale, I got a Neck. Then I got a body for the neck.* I had intended on saving up and getting a warmoth guitar in Fall 2010, but with the 20% sale, I had to bite.
Specifications:
Body: Chambered Korina strat Body, dyed green with DT green binding, HSH (originally SSS) and routed for a Wilkinson Tremolo
Neck: Standard thin CBS Stratocaster Indian Rosewood Neck with Ebony Fretboard, Stainless steel frets and Earvana Black TUSQ XL nut.
Pickups: Seymour Duncan Phat Staples
Tuners: Sperzels
Bridge: Hipshot contour tremolo
Because I was disappointed with my own work in another guitar project, and because this body would need to be routed for the pickups, I decided to pay real and actual guitar techs put my guitar together. I took my guitar to SF Guitarworks, a small place up in San Francisco. They weren't cheap, but they were good. Also, it took them a while because apparently, I wasn't the only one who brought them Warmoth products from the sale - that sale was a stimulus package to guitar techs everywhere apparently.
I got it Saturday, and I've been waiting for a sunny day to take good pictures of it. Luckily, SF Guitarworks put pictures of it on their blog.
They also took pictures of the inside from when they were wiring it up. From this shot, you can kinda see why I had to have the pickup cavities routed deeper:
I'm hoping that we'll have some sun this weekend, and I can take more pictures of it.
My thoughts so far on the guitar:
*From what I'd read about rosewood and korina, I expected the guitar to have a warm, dark sound. But the Phat Staples are bright; and I was surprised to find the bridge pickup to be a little bit twangy. It's different from my fender SSS strat, but more similar to that than to P90 pickups. And it's pretty loud, actually.
*I've only really used a vintage strat bridge, so perhaps my perspective is off, but the Hipshot bridge has been really smooth.
*The effect of the Earvana nut is subtle to the ear, to the point I'm not sure if I'm getting a placebo effect, but my digitech tuner says it's in tune, so that's all that matters. Same with the Stainless Steel frets, not a great change in sound (but in the long run, they'll last longer.)
(*And then, I went crazy and got another Neck and body, but that's another story.)
EDIT (5/22/2012) adding some outdoor body shots. I actually took these two years ago and forgot to put them up on the forum. Now I remember that I wanted to re-do them because I wanted to get some better pictures.
Specifications:
Body: Chambered Korina strat Body, dyed green with DT green binding, HSH (originally SSS) and routed for a Wilkinson Tremolo
Neck: Standard thin CBS Stratocaster Indian Rosewood Neck with Ebony Fretboard, Stainless steel frets and Earvana Black TUSQ XL nut.
Pickups: Seymour Duncan Phat Staples
Tuners: Sperzels
Bridge: Hipshot contour tremolo
Because I was disappointed with my own work in another guitar project, and because this body would need to be routed for the pickups, I decided to pay real and actual guitar techs put my guitar together. I took my guitar to SF Guitarworks, a small place up in San Francisco. They weren't cheap, but they were good. Also, it took them a while because apparently, I wasn't the only one who brought them Warmoth products from the sale - that sale was a stimulus package to guitar techs everywhere apparently.
I got it Saturday, and I've been waiting for a sunny day to take good pictures of it. Luckily, SF Guitarworks put pictures of it on their blog.
They also took pictures of the inside from when they were wiring it up. From this shot, you can kinda see why I had to have the pickup cavities routed deeper:
I'm hoping that we'll have some sun this weekend, and I can take more pictures of it.
My thoughts so far on the guitar:
*From what I'd read about rosewood and korina, I expected the guitar to have a warm, dark sound. But the Phat Staples are bright; and I was surprised to find the bridge pickup to be a little bit twangy. It's different from my fender SSS strat, but more similar to that than to P90 pickups. And it's pretty loud, actually.
*I've only really used a vintage strat bridge, so perhaps my perspective is off, but the Hipshot bridge has been really smooth.
*The effect of the Earvana nut is subtle to the ear, to the point I'm not sure if I'm getting a placebo effect, but my digitech tuner says it's in tune, so that's all that matters. Same with the Stainless Steel frets, not a great change in sound (but in the long run, they'll last longer.)
(*And then, I went crazy and got another Neck and body, but that's another story.)
EDIT (5/22/2012) adding some outdoor body shots. I actually took these two years ago and forgot to put them up on the forum. Now I remember that I wanted to re-do them because I wanted to get some better pictures.
