Mitch
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First off I want to thank Senior Member, Stratamania. Several months ago I posted a question about the possibility of using a Warmoth Gibson conversion neck on a Fender Acoustasonic. Stratamania quickly posted a full analysis of the issues I might encounter. Utilizing his expert advice I ordered a Warmoth Vortex tilt-back neck, unfinished roasted maple with rosewood fretboard. The modifications needed for the neck to fit were minor. I had to drill one new neck bolt hole. I then needed to put a metal disc in where the micro-tilt adjustment screw contacts the back of the heel of the neck. I used a forstner bit to make a shallow round recess and super glued a dime into it. Voila! The neck fits and functions perfectly.
I love the neck and the Gibson scale allows me to use heavier gauge strings. Other than what is mentioned above, I did nothing else to the neck. It is super smooth and the fret ends are flawless. However, I really do not like the truss rod cover that Warmoth included. It's a large piece of black plastic and uses 3 screws. I found that a wooden tongue depressor could be stained and with just one straight horizontal cut be made into truss rod cover. For $5 Amazon sells packages of 100+ colored tongue depressor shaped birch sticks for craft projects. I used wood dye to approximate the color of rosewood, cut it to length (54mm) and with just one hole at the top I had a presentable truss rod cover.
I have several extra dyed sticks. Therefore, in grateful appreciation of Stratamania's advice here on the forum, I will send to anyone here a dyed stick, or two if you want, for free until I run out of them. Just send an email with your mailing address to mlidowsky@gmail.com. You will need to cut it to length, drill the hole and darken the cut end with a felt tip pen.
I love the neck and the Gibson scale allows me to use heavier gauge strings. Other than what is mentioned above, I did nothing else to the neck. It is super smooth and the fret ends are flawless. However, I really do not like the truss rod cover that Warmoth included. It's a large piece of black plastic and uses 3 screws. I found that a wooden tongue depressor could be stained and with just one straight horizontal cut be made into truss rod cover. For $5 Amazon sells packages of 100+ colored tongue depressor shaped birch sticks for craft projects. I used wood dye to approximate the color of rosewood, cut it to length (54mm) and with just one hole at the top I had a presentable truss rod cover.
I have several extra dyed sticks. Therefore, in grateful appreciation of Stratamania's advice here on the forum, I will send to anyone here a dyed stick, or two if you want, for free until I run out of them. Just send an email with your mailing address to mlidowsky@gmail.com. You will need to cut it to length, drill the hole and darken the cut end with a felt tip pen.
