Chris_Lohmann
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Hello everyone!
Just wanted to show all of you my 2nd 100% Warmoth guitar, my black Mockingbird.
Full-length shot
Body
Headstock (the picture doesn't do justice to the flame maple peghead veneer)
SPECS
Body
-Solid 1-piece mahogany body w/ bookmatched AAAAA (5A) flame maple top, contoured heel
-Black dye top blended to a black gloss back via a custom narrow black burstover
-Rear routed, dual humbuckers, string-thru-body hardtail bridge, V-X-T-5 control config
Neck
-25 1/2" scale Warmoth pro neck w/ Jackson-style headstock
-Mahogany neck, jet black ebony fingerboard w/ no inlay, flame maple peghead veneer
-1 3/4" nut width
-Wizard back contour
-10-16" compound radius fingerboard
-SS 6105 fretwire
-Precut and installed Graphtec graphite nut
-Black dye on face of peghead, satin black on the back
Hardware/Electronics
-Locking Sperzel tuners
-Gotoh modern (5 mounting hole) string-thru-body hardtail bridge
-EMG 85 bridge pickup, EMG 81 neck pickup
-Master volume, dual tone via an EMG A25KX2 concentric pot, 3-way switch
Misc. Comments
This guitar was ordered in mid April of 2006. I received it in late July 2006 and was playing it by the end of August/beginning of September 2006 so it isn't new by any means. I am SOOOOOOO depressed that Warmoth discontinued the Mockingbird. I had plans to do another one in an attempt to rectify the mistakes made on this one. For instance, the bridge routing. I tend to be more of a rhythm player and don't really solo that often so I knew that I didn't want a tremolo of any kind. I also knew that I didn't want a Tune-O-Matic, partially because the neck pocket has to be angled and I prefer straight necks, but also because Tune-O-Matics are not capable of individual saddle height adjustment and have a fixed saddle radius of 12" and I knew that I wanted a neck with a 10-16" compound radius fingerboard. So that left me with pretty much one option: a flat-mount string-thru-body hardtail Strat bridge, but which one? I knew which one I wanted. It's basically a carbon-copy made by Gotoh of the modern string-thru-body hardtail bridge that Fender puts on their modern American Standard Hardtail Strats, but Warmoth doesn't carry that particular bridge in stock. So, when I placed my order, I asked for the "String-thru holes only" bridge routing option and I figured that once I received the guitar, I could align my bridge over the string-thru holes and then locate and drill my own mounting holes. Still with me? Okay. One day, about a month after I placed my order I got a phone call from Mr. Gregg Stewart telling me that when they were making my Mockingbird body, they accidentally drilled the mounting holes for the "Narrow-spaced Strat Bridge" that they carry in stock. He wanted to know what I wanted them to do; should they leave the mounting holes the way the were, should they plug the holes or should they scrap the body and start over? Scrapping the body and starting over, he told me, would require the consent of Ken Warmoth, himself. I ultimately decided to have them plug the holes and proceed. So I kinda wanted a do-over to try and get that right. Also, they drilled a hole under where the bridgeplate would be for the string ground wire. That was really my fault because when I placed the order, I forgot to tell my sales rep that I was going to be using EMG active humbuckers. Since most, if not all, EMG pickups are shielded internally, they don't need a string ground wire, therefore you don't use one. It's just another hole that got drilled in the body that didn't need to be there. Additionally, I didn't wire/assemble/set-up this guitar myself. Instead, I took it to my local guitar shop and had one of the technicians there do it and he accidentally mounted the neck pickup slightly crooked. Finally, it seems the ebony fingerboard, maple top and high-gloss finish make this guitar sound a little bit brighter than I like. I had hoped to avoid making these same mistakes again with my next Mockingbird, but now it seems I won't get the chance.
Oh well, hope you all like the pics.
Just wanted to show all of you my 2nd 100% Warmoth guitar, my black Mockingbird.
Full-length shot
Body
Headstock (the picture doesn't do justice to the flame maple peghead veneer)
SPECS
Body
-Solid 1-piece mahogany body w/ bookmatched AAAAA (5A) flame maple top, contoured heel
-Black dye top blended to a black gloss back via a custom narrow black burstover
-Rear routed, dual humbuckers, string-thru-body hardtail bridge, V-X-T-5 control config
Neck
-25 1/2" scale Warmoth pro neck w/ Jackson-style headstock
-Mahogany neck, jet black ebony fingerboard w/ no inlay, flame maple peghead veneer
-1 3/4" nut width
-Wizard back contour
-10-16" compound radius fingerboard
-SS 6105 fretwire
-Precut and installed Graphtec graphite nut
-Black dye on face of peghead, satin black on the back
Hardware/Electronics
-Locking Sperzel tuners
-Gotoh modern (5 mounting hole) string-thru-body hardtail bridge
-EMG 85 bridge pickup, EMG 81 neck pickup
-Master volume, dual tone via an EMG A25KX2 concentric pot, 3-way switch
Misc. Comments
This guitar was ordered in mid April of 2006. I received it in late July 2006 and was playing it by the end of August/beginning of September 2006 so it isn't new by any means. I am SOOOOOOO depressed that Warmoth discontinued the Mockingbird. I had plans to do another one in an attempt to rectify the mistakes made on this one. For instance, the bridge routing. I tend to be more of a rhythm player and don't really solo that often so I knew that I didn't want a tremolo of any kind. I also knew that I didn't want a Tune-O-Matic, partially because the neck pocket has to be angled and I prefer straight necks, but also because Tune-O-Matics are not capable of individual saddle height adjustment and have a fixed saddle radius of 12" and I knew that I wanted a neck with a 10-16" compound radius fingerboard. So that left me with pretty much one option: a flat-mount string-thru-body hardtail Strat bridge, but which one? I knew which one I wanted. It's basically a carbon-copy made by Gotoh of the modern string-thru-body hardtail bridge that Fender puts on their modern American Standard Hardtail Strats, but Warmoth doesn't carry that particular bridge in stock. So, when I placed my order, I asked for the "String-thru holes only" bridge routing option and I figured that once I received the guitar, I could align my bridge over the string-thru holes and then locate and drill my own mounting holes. Still with me? Okay. One day, about a month after I placed my order I got a phone call from Mr. Gregg Stewart telling me that when they were making my Mockingbird body, they accidentally drilled the mounting holes for the "Narrow-spaced Strat Bridge" that they carry in stock. He wanted to know what I wanted them to do; should they leave the mounting holes the way the were, should they plug the holes or should they scrap the body and start over? Scrapping the body and starting over, he told me, would require the consent of Ken Warmoth, himself. I ultimately decided to have them plug the holes and proceed. So I kinda wanted a do-over to try and get that right. Also, they drilled a hole under where the bridgeplate would be for the string ground wire. That was really my fault because when I placed the order, I forgot to tell my sales rep that I was going to be using EMG active humbuckers. Since most, if not all, EMG pickups are shielded internally, they don't need a string ground wire, therefore you don't use one. It's just another hole that got drilled in the body that didn't need to be there. Additionally, I didn't wire/assemble/set-up this guitar myself. Instead, I took it to my local guitar shop and had one of the technicians there do it and he accidentally mounted the neck pickup slightly crooked. Finally, it seems the ebony fingerboard, maple top and high-gloss finish make this guitar sound a little bit brighter than I like. I had hoped to avoid making these same mistakes again with my next Mockingbird, but now it seems I won't get the chance.
Oh well, hope you all like the pics.