Korina Thinline finally on it's way to completion.

[Ace Flibble]

I've had the body sat here for a few months now. The neck and most of the remaining hardware just arrived today, though I've not put anything together yet.

Just a quick snap with my crap point-and-shoot camera for now of the neck and body together.

Flash sucks, it's actually darker and a touch less red that that.

I'm still waiting on the neck pickup to arrive before I get started on it properly, should have that coming within the next couple of weeks. I do have a couple of spare neck pickups from old copy-brand guitars sitting around that I might wire up just to get going for now, can't decide if I can be bothered to do that or if I'll just wait for the proper pickup to arrive.
The spec when done will be:
Black korina rear-routed thinline body, tobacco burst finish with natural masked binding.
Vintage Modern quarter-sawn maple neck with rosewood fretboard, standard thin contour, 10-16" compound radius, 6105 fretwire, trapezoid inlays, corian nut, vintage tint satin finish and using Schaller mini locking tuners.
Hardware is gold for the front of the guitar, though I'm just using plain metal/chrome hardware for the back (I'm cheap like that).
Pickups are a SD Hot Rails for the bridge and a Swineshead AMP humbucker (humbucker made with separate pole pieces {like the SD Stag Mag}) for the neck. The controls are a 3-way switch (just the normal bridge/bridge & neck in parallel/neck) and a single volume control, 250k pot to smooth the tone out since there's no tone control.

Interesting things (well, problems actually) I've spotted so far, just mocking up the build:
Tele Hot Rails pickup is about 2mm too long to fit in the classic style bridge. Dunno if it fits right in the Gotoh one but I'm going to have to enlarge the hole in this bridge to get the pickup to fit.
There's a gap of about 1mm between the back of the headstock and the tuners when they're put in. Is this supposed to be there or is something meant to fill that gap? At first I just thought I wasn't pushing the tuner in properly, but they really don't want to budge any further and I don't want to force anything. Ideas?

 

[m4rk0]

Nice Thinline!!
nothing nicer than a nice tobacco burst over Korina!!

 

[rapfohl09]

Nice Thinline!!
nothing nicer than a nice tobacco burst over Korina!!

+1 :icon_thumright:

 

[chrisg]

Great looking thinline. I'm liking Korina more the more I see it.

I haven't used the mini schallers but I suspect the tuner holes need to be flared out on the back so they will fit properly. Use a countersink to take a little out of the hole and the tuners should fit snug.

Good luck with the build - can't wait to see it finished.

 

[Ace Flibble]

I haven't used the mini schallers but I suspect the tuner holes need to be flared out on the back so they will fit properly. Use a countersink to take a little out of the hole and the tuners should fit snug.

Well I thought it might be something like that, but the tuners are ruler-straight and go in perfectly smoothly until the last tiny fraction where they suddenly stop with this gap left. I know the Schaller tuner holes are narrower at the front of the headstock than they are at the back, which is what I would assume is stopping the tuners being pushed in all the way (i.e. the smaller inside 'lip' is halting them), but then, that's the tuner hole that Warmoth says is right for these tuners, so I figure that can't be it, I trust Warmoth to not get something like that wrong.

I'm thinking at the moment I might just try and find a washer that's the right size and put that in to fill the gap, the tuner pegs still make it 99% of the way through and high enough out the other side anyway.

 

[blue313]

Try some sandpaper wrapped around a screwdriver to bring that lip into shape.

 

[Steve_Karl]

I haven't used the mini schallers but I suspect the tuner holes need to be flared out on the back so they will fit properly. Use a countersink to take a little out of the hole and the tuners should fit snug.

Well I thought it might be something like that, but the tuners are ruler-straight and go in perfectly smoothly until the last tiny fraction where they suddenly stop with this gap left. I know the Schaller tuner holes are narrower at the front of the headstock than they are at the back, which is what I would assume is stopping the tuners being pushed in all the way (i.e. the smaller inside 'lip' is halting them), but then, that's the tuner hole that Warmoth says is right for these tuners, so I figure that can't be it, I trust Warmoth to not get something like that wrong.

I'm thinking at the moment I might just try and find a washer that's the right size and put that in to fill the gap, the tuner pegs still make it 99% of the way through and high enough out the other side anyway.

I had the same problem 2 days ago with my new neck and the mini Schaller locking tuners.
All I had to do was put them in and tighten the top screw, the one that fits over the post. That pulled them that last 16th of an inch into the neck with ease.

 

[Return of Guitlouie]

Flash sucks, it's actually darker and a touch less red that that.

I have never gotten a good picture of my Tobaccoburst Korina Thinline.  It always looks orange.  In fact, when I received the body it surprised me how much darker it looked in person even from the Warmoth showcase pics.  Pleasantly surprised, of course, I love the color in person!

 

[Nando Vallart]

Ulala! Amazing!!!!!

 

[Ace Flibble]

Well this is fun, the Hot Rails didn't fit into the tradtional style bridge Warmoth sells, so I went and got myself a Gotoh bridge to try instead - Hot Rails won't fit in that either. Coughed up a third time for a Wilkinson bridge - Hot Rails won't fit that.

Congratulations Seymour Duncan, four out of the five times I've bought your pickups they don't fit standard hardware...

 

[Nando Vallart]

Well this is fun, the Hot Rails didn't fit into the tradtional style bridge Warmoth sells, so I went and got myself a Gotoh bridge to try instead - Hot Rails won't fit in that either. Coughed up a third time for a Wilkinson bridge - Hot Rails won't fit that.

Congratulations Seymour Duncan, four out of the five times I've bought your pickups they don't fit standard hardware...

That is really creepy
I'd expect that from cheap pickups or DiMarzio, who was a not so good reputation, but from Seymour it's new to me

 

[Mor Paul]

Um.. you did get the tele ones, and not the strat, right?

 

[Ace Flibble]

Yeah, definitely the Tele one. It's about 2mm too long for any of the bridges.

I think for now I'll just find a way to enlarge the hole in the bridge so it can fit, but this is the last time I'm bothering with SD's...

 

[chrisg]

Well this is fun, the Hot Rails didn't fit into the tradtional style bridge Warmoth sells, so I went and got myself a Gotoh bridge to try instead - Hot Rails won't fit in that either. Coughed up a third time for a Wilkinson bridge - Hot Rails won't fit that.

Congratulations Seymour Duncan, four out of the five times I've bought your pickups they don't fit standard hardware...

Did you buy them new?  If so I would take them back and either get a refund or replaced with something that will fit a standard tele bridge.

 

[JaySwear]

nice to see you finally got a neck! i remember talking to you about a neck for that body on ultimate-guitar.com. looks absolutely amazing, i've gotta say!

 

[Ace Flibble]

Did you buy them new?  If so I would take them back and either get a refund or replaced with something that will fit a standard tele bridge.

Got the pickup and the first bridge from Warmoth, gotten the Gotoh and the Wilkinson from WDMusic who are basically 'the' hardware suppliers here in the UK.

I've actually just gone and measured up the pickup compared to the Fender VIntage Noiseless that's sitting in my other Warmoth Tele, there is a definite size difference, the corners of the Hot Rails stick out past the Fender. Basically the overall outline of the Hot Rails is more square than it should be.

It's not dodgy stuff, it's just that Seymour Duncan have once again ballsed up something that should be a very basic. As I said before, this is now the fourth time I've had SD pickups not fit intro standard hardware correctly, I think this is the last time I'll bother with them. Great tones, but I'm tired of having to cut up hardware, arse about with resin and re-drill holes all over the place just to get them to fit.

nice to see you finally got a neck! i remember talking to you about a neck for that body on ultimate-guitar.com. looks absolutely amazing, i've gotta say!

Mmm, I feel a bit bad I've ended up not going with a single thing either here or U-G suggested :laughing7: In the end though I figured it was better to just go with something I knew would feel and play right rather than anything fancy just for the sake of it. I've been asked by U-G before to do a 'guitar of the month' thing with the last Warmoth Tele I made and I was told I could do the same with this one once it's done, so I might get a big thread about it on there when it's all done.