Headless silver flake Soloist

[Kadmium]

Hi guys.

This is my first Warmoth guitar. Apologies for the crappy quality of the photos; they were taken by an iPhone. I'll try to get some shots with a proper camera.

The body is a Soloist, and the tuner access rout is actually an EMG 35 bass pickup rout. The body is extra-light basswood, the neck is a Moses graphite Strat neck with a nice curvy 10" radius and stainless steel frets. Pickups are Bare Knuckles, a Holy Diver in the neck and a Nailbomb in the bridge. There's no pickup selector because it's a stereo output (switched with a footpedal at the same time I do channel switching). Bridges/tuners are Strandbergs. The whole thing weighs about four pounds and is effortless to play.

 

[DocNrock]

Quite unique.  I like it!  :icon_thumright:

How is it to change strings?

 

[Kadmium]

A little laboured, but not too bad. You just unclamp, detune then remove the strings, then insert the new ones, clamp, trim and tune up. The tuners are 40:1, though, so it takes quite a few turns to get them up to pitch. I use Elixirs, though, so I don't really have to change them all that often.

 

[mayfly]

That's a very original and cool guitar you have there!

 

[Mor Paul]

Not my cup of tea, but as long as you like it  :icon_thumright:
You certainly won't find that in Guitar Center.

 

[shanejw]

Totally unique, thats what Warmoth is all about!!

 

[blue313]

Totally unique, thats what Warmoth is all about!!

+1

Pretty cool man.  I like it.  :icon_thumright:

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

I bet you play Country music.  LOL.

 

[rockskate4x]

I really dig your switching idea. It solves the problem of fumbling with your stompboxes and your pickup selector switch at the same time while trying to keep a song running smoothly from a clean part to a dirty part.

 

[dmraco]

I like it....did you paint it yourself?

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

In the gallery on Warmoth's homepage, The Neptunes play doubleneck P-Bass/Strats.  They use a stereo output to switch between necks with A/B switches.

 

[stubhead]

http://guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com/products/

Wow! That's neat. One non-whammy tuner is 35 Euros = 48.66 dollars (X 6 - they're individual) = $291.96 or so. A whammy six bridge is $381.94, give or take a bit. It looks like he's just getting rolling, but it's a great idea, if he can avoid getting crushed by the Steinberger/Gibson legal behemoth - they sure do like to sue to try to make money, as opposed to marketing USEFULLY-innovative products... :evil4: The old LSR tuners are selling for like $500 for six, if you can find them.  :sad1:
The Strandbergs look like they might be hard to turn quickly, sweatily, in-between licks...? :toothy11: If it's just a bolt running through the threads of the knurly part, you're doomed if you break a string onstage.
Well, not DOOMED... arty07:

 

[vegababy]

Do I understand this correctly, that the Strandbergs work with regular strings ? That would indeed be very cool. Their trem system actually fits a regular Floyd cavity.

I've always been a sucker for headless guitars and actually own an early 80s GM4T and I think your version with a Soloist body works really well here...

 

[HMstratocaster]

Oh noooooo! you chopped off it's head!  :headbang1:

 

[Mor Paul]

Oh noooooo! you chopped off it's head!  :headbang1:

 

[m4rk0]

did he say NI or Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-PTANG ?

 

[Mor Paul]

Neither. He was the black knight. He doesn't want a shrubbery, he just doesn't want you to pass. And btw.. it's just a flesh wound

 

[Xplorervoodoo]

Alright, now you're just being silly.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

"Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here."

 

[Wana_make_a_guitar]

"Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here."

"Did you see him oppressing me? You saw him oppressing me!"