Tretgeraet
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Hello Warmothians,
I just posted my first guitar build with Warmoth parts a few hours ago. What I didn't realize when I ordered those parts, is how long those nearly 19 weeks (yes!) would feel!
I'm working - among other things - as an instructor/teacher for CNC woodworking. So, while waiting for my Warmoth parts I thought about HOW I could make a guitar body myself. I had never done anything like that, but I like to learn and try new stuff.
I started experimenting with guitar shapes in AutoCAD, which resulted in so many ugly looking designs until I came up with something that looked kinda like a Charvel star and a Kramer superstrat had a baby.
I thought that would look great in purple, so I planned to build this out of purpleheart and buy a purpleheart neck from Warmoth. But as purpleheart is heavy but very hard and stable, the idea was to sandwich the body out of a heavily chambered front and back.
All of this planing, programming, gathering materials...that took months, which was good, 'cos it made the wait for the other parts feel shorter. And it made me appreciate more what they do at Warmoth.
Since the order I was waiting for, was a 7/8 S-Style body and neck, I designed the new body around a 7/8 Warhead neck and wrote the CNC program with variables. That way, the moment the neck arrived, I could just take final measurements, make some tests and check if everything fits, build the body and check again if everything fits, before ordering the new neck.
After the Body was build, the Neck I ordered was this:
7/8 Warhead Guitar Neck
Construction: Modern
Shaft Wood: Purpleheart
Fretboard Wood: Purpleheart
Nut Width: 1-11/16" (43mm) - Modern Medium
Right / Left Handed: Right-Handed
Neck Back Profile: Standard Thin
Fretboard Radius: 10" - 16" Compound
Number of Frets: 24
Binding: None
Fret Size & Material: GD6150 - Wide & Tall (Gold)
Tuner Hole Size: Gotoh/Grover (13/32" - 11/32")
Inlay Shape: Premium Dots
Inlay Material: Arizona Turquoise
Side Dots: White Side Dots
String Nut: Standard Nut - GraphTech Black TUSQ XL
Mounting Holes: Standard 4-Bolt
Neck Heel Shape: Strat® Shape
I just posted my first guitar build with Warmoth parts a few hours ago. What I didn't realize when I ordered those parts, is how long those nearly 19 weeks (yes!) would feel!
I'm working - among other things - as an instructor/teacher for CNC woodworking. So, while waiting for my Warmoth parts I thought about HOW I could make a guitar body myself. I had never done anything like that, but I like to learn and try new stuff.
I started experimenting with guitar shapes in AutoCAD, which resulted in so many ugly looking designs
until I came up with something that looked kinda like a Charvel star and a Kramer superstrat had a baby.I thought that would look great in purple, so I planned to build this out of purpleheart and buy a purpleheart neck from Warmoth. But as purpleheart is heavy but very hard and stable, the idea was to sandwich the body out of a heavily chambered front and back.
All of this planing, programming, gathering materials...that took months, which was good, 'cos it made the wait for the other parts feel shorter. And it made me appreciate more what they do at Warmoth.
Since the order I was waiting for, was a 7/8 S-Style body and neck, I designed the new body around a 7/8 Warhead neck and wrote the CNC program with variables. That way, the moment the neck arrived, I could just take final measurements, make some tests and check if everything fits, build the body and check again if everything fits, before ordering the new neck.
After the Body was build, the Neck I ordered was this:
7/8 Warhead Guitar Neck
Construction: Modern
Shaft Wood: Purpleheart
Fretboard Wood: Purpleheart
Nut Width: 1-11/16" (43mm) - Modern Medium
Right / Left Handed: Right-Handed
Neck Back Profile: Standard Thin
Fretboard Radius: 10" - 16" Compound
Number of Frets: 24
Binding: None
Fret Size & Material: GD6150 - Wide & Tall (Gold)
Tuner Hole Size: Gotoh/Grover (13/32" - 11/32")
Inlay Shape: Premium Dots
Inlay Material: Arizona Turquoise
Side Dots: White Side Dots
String Nut: Standard Nut - GraphTech Black TUSQ XL
Mounting Holes: Standard 4-Bolt
Neck Heel Shape: Strat® Shape
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