Koa / Mahogany Chambered Strat

[AleForce1]

About a week ago I received my Warmoth Custom Koa/Mahogany chambered Strat body that I ordered back in June.  Upon opening the box I saw that it was unfinished. I thought I selected a clear finish, but looking thru the email I guess I was wrong.  I thought about sending it back and have them put a finish on it, but after looking through the forum I found this thread https://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=25886.0 and decided to try finishing it myself. Attached are photo's of the body out of the box, and also after 1 application of Tru-oil.

The body is routed for a 2Tek bridge, and I will be putting Lollar Special S Series pickups in when they arrive.

2Tek Bridge: 421 grams
Weight of the chambered Koa/Mahogany Chambered body:  1500 grams
Schaller strap locks and volume/tone knobs: 148 grams

I have a showcase Warmoth roasted maple neck arriving next week (I just ordered a few days ago).

 

[stratamania]

Congratulations - take your time with the Tru oil and once you have built up enough do not be in any hurry to assemble it. Better to walk away from it for about a month or more before assembly.

(I hope your roasted maple neck does not arrive with a clear coat on it that you thought you had not ordered )

 

[AleForce1]

Thanks. The hard part starts now - trying to take my time finishing it.

 

[stratamania]

It will be worth the wait  :icon_thumright:

 

[AleForce1]

The Warmoth Showcase Roasted Maple Neck I ordered arrived today w/no finish as expected. The Lollar pickups arrive later this week, but will be a few months before I actually finish it. Too much other work to do.

 

[strat714]

Wow! Beautiful combination!

 

[AleForce1]

The Lollar pickups arrived a day early today, and some Vintage Forge pickup mounting rings that I ordered on Amazon arrived yesterday. Not sure I will use the mounting rings or not (or set of chrome ones instead).  Picture of the body with the Lollar Special S pickups, mounting rings, and 2Tek bridge. Still have many more applications of Tru-Oil to do.

 

[zebra]

Good choice going with the black pickups and pickup rings!  :icon_thumright:

 

[AleForce1]

found some mahogany wood pickup rings on https://reverb.com/item/11570286-guilford-honduras-mahogany-set-of-3-single-coil-pickup-rings. I need to sand the inside of the rings to make the pickups fit, but it might work.

 

[SeattleScotty]

Yessss! Those mahogany rings look even better, and the black already looked pretty good.

Nice work on the finish, it looks great! Should be a really clean looking guitar once you're all finished.  :yourock:

 

[AleForce1]

Thanks. A few more tru-oil applications, and I’ll get it put together. I’ve been waiting a few days before reapplying applications.

 

[AleForce1]

Getting close to putting it all together. Just waiting for for 2 more things to arrive.

 

[strat714]

Nice. Here's hoping it plays and sounds as great as it looks!

 

[Rat City]

Holy smokes! That koa top is beautiful.

 

[mayfly]

ya! you did a really great job there!

 

[AleForce1]

Can't believe it's been 5 months since I last did anything with this, but getting close to finishing this up. Between work and a few weeks in Italy I'm finding a little time to move this along.  Thanks to kucoyote's post on https://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=32262.msg452078#msg452078 , I was able to finally get the pickup wires thru the the neck & bridge channels. I tried different kinds of zip ties, other wire but I couldn't get the wires to pull thru the channels.

Just need to finish up wiring everything and line up the pickups after putting some strings on it.

 

[AleForce1]

Finally had the time and energy to finish this guitar.

 

[ragamuffin]

Looks great! That top is killer and I like the hardware choices

 

[AleForce1]

Looks great! That top is killer and I like the hardware choices

Thanks. With the shininess of the 2Tek bridge and frame I decided to go with chrome knobs and pickup covers. I felt like black covers and knobs looked out of place.