IDing Warmoth specs and woods

[Fastmerc]

Hey all,

I picked this gorgeous warmoth strat up awhile back and Im wondering if there is anyway to tell all the factory options it has and what woods it was made of.  It appears to have been completed by the warmoth folks including the finish etc.  There is a number in the neck pocket...would Warmoth be able to tell me how the guitar was ordered by that?  Obviously the top is Maple but since the back and neck are painted black Im unsure of the base woods.  The neck pocket looks like Mahogany to me, but Im no wood expert.  The neck feels pretty chuncky, but is there a way to tell which neck carve it has?  This is my first and only experience with a warmoth guitar so I have no real frame of reference.  Thanks for any light anyone can shed on the matter.  Here are the pics (I hope).

 

[bagman67]

Just eyeballing it, looks like your body is mahogany with a figured maple cap, and your neck looks like it's probably maple with an ebony fingerboard (based on the recess for the side-set-screw for the truss rod).


You should look into hosting your photos on photobucket or flickr and linking to them instead of uploading those enormous photos.  They're too big to really easily evaluate once they're enlarged.  With one of the image hosting services, they'll provide several sizes and you can choose the URL for the one that best suits the purpose.

 

[Cagey]

The number in the body's neck pocket is just a production tracking number. It's a temporary thing that they use during fabrication, and those numbers get recycled so they don't really mean anything after the fact.

There are a couple numbers on the neck heel that mean something, but I can't make them out on the picture you posted. One is the nut width, and will look something like "1.625" or "1.685", and the other is the fret size, which will probably be a 6000-series number, like 6105. If the number is followed by a "SS" or "G", then it means the frets are stainless steel or gold, respectively. If the fretboard radius is anything other than their standard 10"-16" compound, they'll mark that, too. So, if you see 12", that means it's a straight radius neck. Also, if the thing has a clear satin finish, they'll put a red dot on the heel because that finish looks like there's no finish. But, I don't think that applies here.

Other than that, be aware that Warmoth doesn't build guitars. They're a parts supplier. Somebody else put that unit together, so Warmoth really has no history on it.

 

[Fastmerc]

Just eyeballing it, looks like your body is mahogany with a figured maple cap, and your neck looks like it's probably maple with an ebony fingerboard (based on the recess for the side-set-screw for the truss rod).


You should look into hosting your photos on photobucket or flickr and linking to them instead of uploading those enormous photos.  They're too big to really easily evaluate once they're enlarged.  With one of the image hosting services, they'll provide several sizes and you can choose the URL for the one that best suits the purpose.

Thanks, it seems like that combo to me also, just wanted to be sure.  I do usually use photobucket but since this was the first time I used this forum I just hit the attachments button and went from there...sorry about the image size.

 

[Fastmerc]

The number in the body's neck pocket is just a production tracking number. It's a temporary thing that they use during fabrication, and those numbers get recycled so they don't really mean anything after the fact.

There are a couple numbers on the neck heel that mean something, but I can't make them out on the picture you posted. One is the nut width, and will look something like "1.625" or "1.685", and the other is the fret size, which will probably be a 6000-series number, like 6105. If the number is followed by a "SS" or "G", then it means the frets are stainless steel or gold, respectively. If the fretboard radius is anything other than their standard 10"-16" compound, they'll mark that, too. So, if you see 12", that means it's a straight radius neck. Also, if the thing has a clear satin finish, they'll put a red dot on the heel because that finish looks like there's no finish. But, I don't think that applies here.

Other than that, be aware that Warmoth doesn't build guitars. They're a parts supplier. Somebody else put that unit together, so Warmoth really has no history on it.

Very informative thank you for the response.  The only things noted on the neck are "Warmoth" the turtle and "Lic By Fender" then on the very bottom it is stamped 222.

 

[Cagey]

The "222" is another production tracking number that means nothing at this point. Sorry we can't come up with a better pedigree for you. Warmoth doesn't serialize anything, so dating or any other ID is tough to do.