solmaz
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After 5 months, I finally completed putting together(hopefully) my soloist from a Warmoth neck and body. The guitar is absolute perfection, never played anything like it. The fretwork is absolute perfection :guitarplayer2:.
Only thing is that I am not completely sure if I have seated the neck correctly. With my other guitar, the neck pocket is totally loose so it drops in and I can wiggle it around, but with the warmoth neck and body I put the neck on top and pushed in while keeping it level, it has zero movements after that, absolutely perfect fit which is fantastic.
The gap between the bottom of the fingerboard and top of the body at 22nd fret is 5mm (see photos), which is 2mm more than what is shown in the "will it fit page" here: https://www.warmoth.com/guitar/necks/faq2.aspx
Now the top edge of the fretboard is 9mm from the body on the side, which matches the picture in the link above. So I am thinking the neck is seated correctly just the overhang is thinner, right?
I have set the tremolo with a tiny gap above the body and floating with a slight angle. This required a neck tilt on my strat, but with this guitar, it works perfectly fine even the saddles seem to be on the high side (see photos).
So the first question does this seem all good? or should I look into my neck seating?
I reseated the neck after putting the guitar together, pressed the neck in putting one palm where the neck plate is and another on the neck where the middle of the heel is. Ruined a good set of new strings but feels to be seated perfectly well. Photos of the neck/body contact below.
This guitar looks and plays amazing, so much so that I want to put together a hardtail one with similar specs, but finished transparent red by Warmoth. So my second question is, does the same body type (soloist), work well with the fender standard flat-mount bridge without having to raise the saddles to maximum? The reason I am asking this is that looking at my current setup, seems like if the bridge is set flat on the body the saddles might have to be maxed out or close to it to get them high enough. Do you suggest another bridge, I also like the recessed tune-o-matic.
Cheers
Only thing is that I am not completely sure if I have seated the neck correctly. With my other guitar, the neck pocket is totally loose so it drops in and I can wiggle it around, but with the warmoth neck and body I put the neck on top and pushed in while keeping it level, it has zero movements after that, absolutely perfect fit which is fantastic.
The gap between the bottom of the fingerboard and top of the body at 22nd fret is 5mm (see photos), which is 2mm more than what is shown in the "will it fit page" here: https://www.warmoth.com/guitar/necks/faq2.aspx
Now the top edge of the fretboard is 9mm from the body on the side, which matches the picture in the link above. So I am thinking the neck is seated correctly just the overhang is thinner, right?
I have set the tremolo with a tiny gap above the body and floating with a slight angle. This required a neck tilt on my strat, but with this guitar, it works perfectly fine even the saddles seem to be on the high side (see photos).
So the first question does this seem all good? or should I look into my neck seating?
I reseated the neck after putting the guitar together, pressed the neck in putting one palm where the neck plate is and another on the neck where the middle of the heel is. Ruined a good set of new strings but feels to be seated perfectly well. Photos of the neck/body contact below.
This guitar looks and plays amazing, so much so that I want to put together a hardtail one with similar specs, but finished transparent red by Warmoth. So my second question is, does the same body type (soloist), work well with the fender standard flat-mount bridge without having to raise the saddles to maximum? The reason I am asking this is that looking at my current setup, seems like if the bridge is set flat on the body the saddles might have to be maxed out or close to it to get them high enough. Do you suggest another bridge, I also like the recessed tune-o-matic.
Cheers