New Project: Luke's first Warmoth!

[m4rk0]

This is going to be great!
I am helping my mate Luke out to put together his first warmoth:

A Hollow Korina Strat with a nice Flame Maple top from the showcase:
The Hardware will be all Black, so it will be called 'Soylent Black' (its not really made of people)
Recessed Wilkinson, black PG and 3 black Lil Killers from GFS
for the neck we have a Canary with Ziricote board in mind + black planet waves tuners and a roller not

Sorry about the fuzzy pics, I wiped some Naphta on to show the figuring, but it was only visable without flash  :sad1:

 

[m4rk0]

The Korina even has some flame on the back, but it doesn't really show in the non-flash pics.
you can see it a little with Flash (looks a bit weird as the naphta already started to dry)

 

[Tempest]

Awesome flame on that top dude!  Cool flame on the back to.  What are you gonna finish with?

 

[DangerousR6]

Looks like that's going to be pretty sweet there Marko, nice of you to help out you bud like that. I like the canary/ziricote combo on the neck.... :icon_thumright:

 

[DangerousR6]

Oh ya Marko, when the hell you coming out to Greenville and having a beer with me mang... :icon_biggrin:

 

[Mor Paul]

Are those toneworms?!

Looks pretty good!

 

[m4rk0]

Oh ya Marko, when the hell you coming out to Greenville and having a beer with me mang... :icon_biggrin:

Hey Doug! Absolutely! after I order that neckplate!! I may even bring Luke, he needs one too!
oh btw, Luke should be joining the forum soon.. we need more texas warmoth addicts on here!!

 

[m4rk0]

Awesome flame on that top dude!  Cool flame to.  What are you gonna finish with?

Ah forgot to mention..
we are going to try a couple of different light stains from minwax. at the moment I am leaning towards no stain at all, but hey its not my guitar  :icon_biggrin:

Final finish will be a couple of coats of Tru-oil

 

[DangerousR6]

Oh ya Marko, when the hell you coming out to Greenville and having a beer with me mang... :icon_biggrin:

Hey Doug! Absolutely! after I order that neckplate!! I may even bring Luke, he needs one too!
oh btw, Luke should be joining the forum soon.. we need more texas warmoth addicts on here!!

:headbang:

 

[Nando Vallart]

Damn! Very nice!! :icon_biggrin: Think this will look badass!

+1 on only oil finish!

 

[Soylent]

It's gonna look brilliant.. I can't wait to build this thing up! We'll post pictures for the entire progress, thanks for all the support!

 

[m4rk0]

HAHA! Welcome to the forum you big fecker!

 

[jimh]

It's gonna look brilliant.. I can't wait to build this thing up! We'll post pictures for the entire progress, thanks for all the support!

So you must be Luke then???  :icon_thumright:

Welcome...... Good way to start your Warmoth Addiction.....  ccasion14:

 

[bpmorton777]

great body! What's the wireing plan? I put three lil killers in my MIJ strat and they sound great by them selfs but need some kind of speacial wireing for 2/4 position to get more quak out of them. need a super switch.

Brian

 

[Soylent]

Addiction is right, I haven't even bought the neck yet, and I'm already thinking of building a thinline..

 

[jimh]

Addiction is right, I haven't even bought the neck yet, and I'm already thinking of building a thinline..

Hold on......... You were called Soylent a minute ago!

 

[m4rk0]

great body! What's the wireing plan? I put three lil killers in my MIJ strat and they sound great by them selfs but need some kind of speacial wireing for 2/4 position to get more quak out of them. need a super switch.

Brian

I used a prewired lil killers pg from GFS for one of my strats, and it sounds really good, so that is where we are going for.. We may modify it later if needed.

I think Luke agrees with me that we may not need a stain, as the flame is really nice and 3d as it is.
any opinions here?

other options we considered were:
Colonial maple (kind of Amber)
Golden Pecan (more yellowish)
Red Mahogany (a little darker and red compared to colonial maple)

 

[Nando Vallart]

Welcome to the mess  :evil4:

 

[Soylent]

It was soylent yeah, but then I noticed I could make it appear as Luke.. so that works for me. And yeah I'm really leaning towards no stain.. we'll have to see..

 

[Soylent]

Just ordered my canary back ziricote top neck with some planet waves and an LSR roller.. and I think I'm gonna go with no stain, just oil finish, because lets face it, that wood is beautiful on that body.