my '95 Warmoth Custom

[baljnm]

This is my Warmoth Custom. The body i had made around 1995 and up until this week had a birdseye maple/rosewood neck and chrome hardware. Well for my birthday in January i had Warmoth cook me up a nice Goncalo Alves/Macassar Ebony neck, so a major part of her facelift was changing out the harware to gold, which involved removing and rewiring 3 switches.

Body Specs:
1 piece Honduran Mahagony tele body
thinline top route control cavity
LP toggle rear route in upper horn
forearm contour
finished by me back in 1995 (16 years ago! I was 22!!)

Neck Specs:
BRAND NEW!!
Goncalo Alves/Macassar Ebony CBS Strat neck
stainless 6105 frets
1 11/16" nut width
standard thin contour
MOP face dots
compound radius
GraphTech White TUSQ installed by Warmoth
Sperzel locking tuners

Electronics:
bridge pickup: Seymour Duncan Custom SH-5 with coil cut and phase switch
neck pickup: Gibson 490R (its actually a zebra coil, found that out when i changed the cover from nickel to gold)
dual concentric volume/tone pots
gold electrosocket

Let me know what you guys think!

Jason

 

[CrackedPepper]

Really nice!  Don't see too much Honduran Mahagony anymore...  :sad1:

 

[Cagey]

I'm curious where that pickguard came from...

 

[baljnm]

I'm curious where that pickguard came from...

WD made it from my own tracing. The 'top' half is Strat style, since i HATE telecaster pickguards, the control area is Tele Thinline and i made it go down the cutaway, because, again, i HATE telecaster pickguards (all types). Its a one of a kind.

 

[Cagey]

Nice job. I also dislike most Tele pickguards - they generally look like some kind of half-assed afterthought that was designed without ever having seen the guitar they're going to be installed on. That's why that one jumped out at me - I knew I hadn't seen one before. It does cover up quite a bit, though. Not sure that would be a Good Thing if one were building something with a fancy finish or figured wood that you'd like to be able to display.

 

[Ace Flibble]

I'm absolutely loving the pickguard/control layout. That looks like the kind of genius design that should be a standard option or even a regular Fender model (in fact witt he new Thinline Deluxe they're not too far off, bar the pickguard extension at the cutaway).

 

[Mor Paul]

I dig the pickguard too!
I recently put a pickguard of my design on my newest guitar...
were you worried about how it would look too?

 

[baljnm]

I dig the pickguard too!
I recently put a pickguard of my design on my newest guitar...
were you worried about how it would look too?

I remember wanting to build a Les Paul, but in 95, Warmoth didnt offer them, or if they did, they didnt come carved top, or if they did i was 22, living with my parents, and definately couldnt afford one. But i knew i wanted a LP type of guitar, which is where the 2 HB, 2 vol, 2 tone, and 3 way toggle come from. I had originally wanted to do seperate vols and tones, but there wasnt a route on a Tele available that would allow me to do that (at the time). So the pickguard kind of just happened, based on mostly what i DIDNT want from a pickguard: that crazy half circle on the top of a standard tele, or the the stupid 'doesnt go down the lower horn' on the thinline. So I printed out several different pickguards, scaled them to full size, and cut them out of paper and arranged them till i found something that worked.

Im sure if i had the money at the time and decided to go with some sort of figured or beauty wood, i probably wouldve done a rear route, but again, this was 1995 and i was 22. Im just glad that shes been my pride and joy, my 'Baby', for the last 16 years. And now with a new neck that fits my hands better, shes back to being the first guitar i grab when im sitting around the house.

Thanks for all the replies, by the way. Im glad people like her!!

Jason

 

[Jack Michaelson]

I love it!

 

[rapfohl09]

I absolutely LOVE the black pg/gold pickup gold bridge/black pickup layout! This is a great looking guitar! I can't wait to have had my guitars for years and years and look back on what ive done with them!