my experience

[jimfergie]

first time with Warmoth. I ordered a body and neck, 4 weeks later they came. The alder Strat body was fine, even though they couldn't rout the two humbuckers or control cavity for use with a pick guard with out routing the center single pickup cavity (that I didn't want) It's OK as I can rout them myself. The neck was finished in their satin, but was so thin I wasn't sure it was finished. The neck had a brown streak that looked like a flaw right between the 3rd and 4th fret. I probably could've lived with that but the fret wire was wrong. Warmoth's website still specs the stainless steel SS6105 frets as .102" in width. I thought they looked narrow, with my digital caliper all I get is .090 for the widest fret. I'm not sure if they're the SS6230 or what.
I returned the neck, wasn't given a credit for the frets even though they miss advertised them. The second neck came 4 weeks later with regular nickel frets that are correct and no finish as I want the edges rolled and more of a standard American Strat finish.
I'm trying to decide on the reranch or the Stewart McDonald finihes for the neck.
Overall the quality of the body and neck is very good.

 

[simple]

Warmoth checks for manufacturer's defects or mis-spec's when the part comes back. If there are none, you won't receive a refund for the custom features. The cool thing is that everyone gets the Warmoth 10 day grace period to return anything for any reason so there's pretty good coverage for customers either way.

 

[tfarny]

I'll say it before someone else does: Deft brand lacquer, the 4 dollar cans from home depot, do as good a job as the stew mac stuff (maybe better?) They have satin, semi, and gloss. I thought the semigloss was a great product. I just got finished with spraying a whole mess of the stew mac lacquers and it was a fine product but the gloss was no better than the deft and it cost double.