itookacanuk
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Hey, All. I am excited for my first project build and am hoping to end up with a guitar that will be my main instrument. I am looking for a versatile instrument I can play 3 days a week at church, for about 3 hours at a time.
Our team has a Foo Fighters / Pink Floyd / Jeff Buckley kind of sound that occasionally delves into DADEAD heavy rock (not unlike Collective Soul, Evanescence, or Creed). I am hoping I can get those tones with this guitar. Please hit me up with thoughts and advice on project design as well as whether or not this design working for that type of sound. (My current main guitar is a Fender American Strat and has tremendous cleans through a Marshall Artist Head and sweetrock distortion in the bridge's SD Lil' 59. The plan is for this VIP to take over the heavier songs.)
Warmoth VIP:
BODY:
WOODS: Solid mahogany, flame maple top
PICKUPS: Humbucker Neck (SD PEarly Gates), Humbucker Bridge (Duncan Custom)
- Question - Do I choose "Humbucker (Bridge or Treble)" or "Humbucker (Wood Mount)" if I plan on using mounting rings?
CONTROLS: PRS non-recessed. I never use my tone so I'll have a volume for each pickup and a standard 3 way toggle.
INPUT JACK: Want to go with the half inch "deep panel jack" but I am having trouble discerning whether or not that's a viable option.
BRIDGE: Looking to do string through body but I am expecting Warmoth to reply that they won't because it's not a flat top. I did see a string through in their customer gallery though, but it may have been drilled at home:
http://www.warmoth.com/Gallery/GalleryEntry.aspx?id=492
CONTOURS: Heel and tummy cut standard with VIP.
FINISH: Green dye front, black gloss back, with this as my model:
http://www.warmoth.com/Gallery/GalleryEntry.aspx?id=1531
I'm not sure if that will require the "custom burst over" option but I am assuming it will. The person who built the guitar said he has "custom burn over" but I bet he meant custom *burst* over.
NECK (I'm hoping it will feel similar to my Strat. If I love the Warmoth neck I'll order an identical one with a fender headstock and put it on the Strat):
TYPE: Warmoth Pro Angled
WOODS: Maple neck with Ebony fretboard (side dots only, no inlays)
TUNERS: Sperzels
NUT: 1 11/16
BACK CONTOUR: Standard thin
RADIUS: 10-16 Compound
FRETS: 22
FRETS: Debating 6150 regular or 6105 Stainless.
- I have trouble bending strings on the Start because I use .11 strings tuned to E. The tone is phenomenal but It's rigid when I bend. I'm reading that the taller frets help with bends but I also do a lot of sliding up and down and don't want to hit speed bumps. Advice?
NUT: GraphTech Black TUSQ XL (to stay in tune as long as possible)
FINISH: Clear Satin Nitro
- Matching Flame Maple pegged veneer with green dye.
Thanks in advance everyone. This is a cool community.
David
Our team has a Foo Fighters / Pink Floyd / Jeff Buckley kind of sound that occasionally delves into DADEAD heavy rock (not unlike Collective Soul, Evanescence, or Creed). I am hoping I can get those tones with this guitar. Please hit me up with thoughts and advice on project design as well as whether or not this design working for that type of sound. (My current main guitar is a Fender American Strat and has tremendous cleans through a Marshall Artist Head and sweetrock distortion in the bridge's SD Lil' 59. The plan is for this VIP to take over the heavier songs.)
Warmoth VIP:
BODY:
WOODS: Solid mahogany, flame maple top
PICKUPS: Humbucker Neck (SD PEarly Gates), Humbucker Bridge (Duncan Custom)
- Question - Do I choose "Humbucker (Bridge or Treble)" or "Humbucker (Wood Mount)" if I plan on using mounting rings?
CONTROLS: PRS non-recessed. I never use my tone so I'll have a volume for each pickup and a standard 3 way toggle.
INPUT JACK: Want to go with the half inch "deep panel jack" but I am having trouble discerning whether or not that's a viable option.
BRIDGE: Looking to do string through body but I am expecting Warmoth to reply that they won't because it's not a flat top. I did see a string through in their customer gallery though, but it may have been drilled at home:
http://www.warmoth.com/Gallery/GalleryEntry.aspx?id=492
CONTOURS: Heel and tummy cut standard with VIP.
FINISH: Green dye front, black gloss back, with this as my model:
http://www.warmoth.com/Gallery/GalleryEntry.aspx?id=1531
I'm not sure if that will require the "custom burst over" option but I am assuming it will. The person who built the guitar said he has "custom burn over" but I bet he meant custom *burst* over.
NECK (I'm hoping it will feel similar to my Strat. If I love the Warmoth neck I'll order an identical one with a fender headstock and put it on the Strat):
TYPE: Warmoth Pro Angled
WOODS: Maple neck with Ebony fretboard (side dots only, no inlays)
TUNERS: Sperzels
NUT: 1 11/16
BACK CONTOUR: Standard thin
RADIUS: 10-16 Compound
FRETS: 22
FRETS: Debating 6150 regular or 6105 Stainless.
- I have trouble bending strings on the Start because I use .11 strings tuned to E. The tone is phenomenal but It's rigid when I bend. I'm reading that the taller frets help with bends but I also do a lot of sliding up and down and don't want to hit speed bumps. Advice?
NUT: GraphTech Black TUSQ XL (to stay in tune as long as possible)
FINISH: Clear Satin Nitro
- Matching Flame Maple pegged veneer with green dye.
Thanks in advance everyone. This is a cool community.
David