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[rapfohl09]

here is mine...IT is a precision kit too.  It most recently under went a mild relic...I based it on a 1960...but a bursted DC.  I do not think they ever made it like this.  Especially with GOLD frets! :icon_thumright:

...note the water slide...Thanks for the tips tonar...

Mayfly....You are going to love your JR...easily one of my favorite guitars for play....

Love this guitar! I was wondering if I had missed the finished photos.

 

[dmraco]

You blew my cover man!  I was going to have a whole photo series of me slooooowy opening the box to build suspense.  but Noooooo!  Everyone knows what's up now!  :icon_jokercolor:

Ahem.  I digress.

So - let's open that box!

oooooo! what could it be???   

you are such a tease...but you have me guessing because Precision is makeing some killer Teles too.

 

[Mor Paul]

It's a Gibson BFG by the looks of that rough carve.

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I just spit a mouth full of my lunch on the computer screen!

And you're stealing Trevor's thunder too!

Actually, I haven't heard about that happening in a long time...

 

[DangerousR6]

aaaaaaaaaand.....we still don't know.... :doh: :doh:

 

[mayfly]

aaaaaaaaaand it's a ...

a Junior!  Big surprise there...  :icon_jokercolor:

 

[rapfohl09]

Very cool! I might have to get me one of these...

 

[jackthehack]

I'm digging their BK option:

 

[NonsenseTele]

So, what do you think of the kit, Mayfly?

 

[stubhead]

This is the "baseball bat" one, right? I just looked at their weird "60's"-spec LP necks with the .800" size - eek! Toothpick-tone!

 

[mayfly]

Gentlemen,

Overall, the kit looks pretty good. 

The neck is a single piece of mahogany, and the body is in two book-matched pieces.  Both look quite nice.

The neck is indeed the "baseball bat" profile, which goes from just under an inch thick at the nut to about an inch and a quarter at the heel (!).  The neck is straight and the fretwork looks quite nice.  I had planned to do my own profile on this neck, but now I'm not sure - it feels pretty good as is.

There were complaints on older kits that the end of the headstock (where the gibson "open book" detail is) was at a funny angle.  Not the case with this kit.  It looks perfect.

The body / neck joint is just a littttttle loose.  It's not as tight as a warmoth neck/body, but it's pretty good.  Gluing it up will be pretty easy.

However - there are many things to be finished on this kit - the body edge round-over for example.  Finish sanding is another.  Sanding where the control cavity cover plate as well.  Although it's a high quality kit, it's not finished to warmoth levels.  I will say however that it is much better than the WD music telecaster that I bought.

More wonderful low rez iPhone photos soon!

 

[mayfly]

Some neck shots:

Nice grain on the headstock:

Not bad frets:

and it's fat!

 

[Tonar8352]

quote]The body / neck joint is just a littttttle loose.[/quote]

That would not be unusual for some Gibson’s where they used little shims to tighten it up. You might want to consider doing that to get it nice and tight before you glue it up.

What is the wood on the fretboard?

Are you going to go the purist route and use hot hide glue on the neck joint?

Oh and by the way the Unofficial Warmoth Discussion Board is the best on the Internet.  They allow us to discuss other builder’s pieces-parts here with out complaint!  Thank you Warmoth for the freedom to do this and not shut the thread down. I hope you know that if we could get glued in bodies and necks from you chances are you would be the first choice!

 

[mayfly]

That would not be unusual for some Gibson’s where they used little shims to tighten it up. You might want to consider doing that to get it nice and tight before you glue it up.

What is the wood on the fretboard?

Are you going to go the purist route and use hot hide glue on the neck joint?

Oh and by the way the Unofficial Warmoth Discussion Board is the best on the Internet.  They allow us to discuss other builder’s pieces-parts here with out complaint!  Thank you Warmoth for the freedom to do this and not shut the thread down. I hope you know that if we could get glued in bodies and necks from you chances are you would be the first choice!

Hey Greg,

When I say it's a little loose - I mean that it goes in and out without pressure.  I don't think I could slide a piece of paper in the gap!

The Fredboard is rosewood - likely Indian.

Hide Glue?  Forget it!  Titebond III baby!  when I glue a neck....  it stays glued.

Yea - warmoth is great.  They just know that another telecaster is coming eventually!  :doh:

 

[Cagey]

Boy, that neck looks thick even in a picture. But, you sorta expect that sort of thing on that style guitar, right? Besides, what's a couple hundred thousandths between necks? You'll get over it. It'll give you something to wrestle with every once in a while.

 

[mayfly]

ok, here's some body shots:

looks pretty nice.

For you wood porn types:

The neck pocket - showing the bookmatching:

Yep - it sits in there:

Neck joint:  don't think I'll need to shim it:

Maybe I could get some toilet paper in that gap:

I also got some Cagey approved tuners!

This is going to be the luckiest JR in the world:

 

[Cagey]

I also got some Cagey approved tuners!

 

[stubhead]

Is there... any sort of instructions either included or online (formal or formal) about neck alignment, glue, setup issues? I would be constitutionally incapable of gluing that thing in until I'd obsessed pretty heavily about the bridge height/neck angle thing. can you at least tap the bridge in, make the nut (or find an old beater, one more thing about save everything) and waste a few strings to check? I woulda said "attach the high and low tuner too" but there's no tuners in sight, just some bizarre, nightmarish retrofantasy "excuse-makers".... but until they're attached, there's always hope for you, kid.
You can still send them back, right? 

RIGHT?!?


(if you just have so much extra money you need to get rid of it by buying garbage tuners, I got boxes of 'em, sell by the pound or do you crazy kicky 'Nucks do kilos, I can never remem... well i probably never knew in the first place.)

 

[mayfly]

Hey Stub,

No - there are no instructions whatsoever.  This is a manly kit for manly men!    ccasion14:

and my plan for the tuners is to install them, and then put in some grovers as a retrofit after the fact.  Then it will look 100% authentic!  :icon_jokercolor:

 

[jackthehack]

"and my plan for the tuners is to install them, and then put in some grovers as a retrofit after the fact.  Then it will look 100% authentic!"

:icon_thumright:  +100

 

[stubhead]

"and my plan for the tuners is to install them, and then put in some grovers as a retrofit after the fact.  Then it will look 100% authentic!"

:icon_thumright:  +100

The better counterfeiters are all over this stuff, drilling extra spare tuner holes (then-re-re-installing new fake old Gruesons using the bushing kits, shimming necks with recognizably-"vintage" credit card bits.... the best I heard of, there's a guy in LA who specializes in just-barely visibly-faked new old solder joints and pot codes, so the discerning loupe-armed buyer can hoist the "1962 Stratocaster" and say "AHAH! These potentiometers are new, they're from1987!" and get a $8,000 discount off his "new" $25,000 '62 Strat. Which of course was really made out of 2008 wood that's been in the compost heap, tanning booth and only-your-"luthier"-knows-for-sure... my ethics are hanging by one last shred.... :laughing11:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1968-Gibson-Les-Paul-Standard-Switch-Loom-Switch-Tip-/330633180924?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item4cfb45f6fc
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