Input Cup on Warmoth Telecaster

[railhead]

I just got my first Warmoth guitar, a gorgeous Telecaster (pics later) -- but it seems Warmoth doesn't flatten the area at the input cup like Fender does, so now my input jack cup doesn't fit flush to the guitar body.

It looks like total crap to have the edges of the cup lifting off the body, but what are we supposed to do about it?

Thoughts? Ideas?

Thanks!
Maury

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Same with the Electrosocket on my Tele.  It is barely noticeable to me, and no one has ever mentioned it to me.  Still, being occasionally OCD, I know how details can drive one crazy.  Personally, I rather like that the input side of the body on the Warmoth Teles are rounded, even with a poorly fitted jack.

 

[blue313]

I ended up using a Dremel on the hole a little bit and partially recessing the cup.  Instead of the lip hanging out, it has that sunken in look like a Tele that needed its jack plate reinstalled a dozen times.  With the Electrosocket it's rock solid though.

 

[Return of Guitlouie]

I hate to be a jerk, and I don't mean to get too hung up on semantics, but isn't it really an output?  That's what I always refer to it as, that's where the sound goes out of the guitar, right.  Oh, and yeah, it was like that on my Tele as well, but I, too, took Mr. Dremel to it and made  it look better.  It did kind of bother me, but in the end I chalked it up to one of those things that I just had to do myself, like drilling all those holes and setting the thing up. 

 

[-CB-]

FWIW, I prefer a LP jack plate there.  Can't tell ya how many tele cups I've seen ripped out... dozens?  The LP jack fits over the roundness just fine, and four screws hold it all down tight.

Yah, not vintage correct, but it works.

 

[Mor Paul]

I use a LP style plate as well. Angled jacks work better, less fumbling, etc...

 

[tfarny]

LP jack for me too. Prefer the ruggedness, ease of maintenance, angled jacks go in great, and to me it looks better.

 

[AprioriMark]

I ended up using a Dremel on the hole a little bit and partially recessing the cup.  Instead of the lip hanging out, it has that sunken in look like a Tele that needed its jack plate reinstalled a dozen times.  With the Electrosocket it's rock solid though.

Same here sorta.  I had a luthier make it look snazzy, but it's my favorite jack of any of my guitars.  I hate jackplates with the passion of a thousand pent up teenage boys.  That actually frightened me after I typed it.

-Mark

 

[mayfly]

I just live with the edges sticking out.  But my guitars are tools and not really for looking at closely, so I get away with it.

 

[Mor Paul]

I just live with the edges sticking out.  But my guitars are tools and not really for looking at closely, so I get away with it.

Yeah, the ugly things!

 

[chrisg]

LP jack for me too. Prefer the ruggedness, ease of maintenance, angled jacks go in great, and to me it looks better.

and they are cheaper  :icon_thumright:

 

[Nando Vallart]

(pics later)

No dude, pics now