New video: Ten Things Leo Got Wrong

[aarontunes]

Go ahead.....tell me how wrong I am. I can handle it.

 

[Hodgo]

Despite having my pitchfork at the ready I ended up agreeing with everything you said.

 

[Rick]

Nah ... you're right ... what about that Jazzmaster bridge? I think my next build I'll be using a bigsby.

 

[Hodgo]

Nah ... you're right ... what about that Jazzmaster bridge? I think my next build I'll be using a bigsby.

Oof. Somewhere, Mike Adams has shed a tear.

 

[Tretgeraet]

Just one tiny little thing I disagreed with:

On Vintage Tele Bodys and as long as the fretboard doesn't overhang the pickguard, wood-mounting the neck pickup solves Nr. 2!

Because then you can simply take off the pickguard to adjust the trussrod.

I agree with everything else, though.

 

[aarontunes]

Wow....like any rational person, I never have a beef with people's opinions that run contrary to mine. But some of those comments on YouTube today have been simply awful. Really viscous ad hominems aimed at me. I had to delete a few.

I just can't understand how people can allow themselves to become so spiteful over things that matter so little.

The internet is truly a strange place.

 

[Spud]

Wow....like any rational person, I never have a beef with people's opinions that run contrary to mine. But some of those comments on YouTube today have been simply awful. Really viscous ad hominems aimed at me. I had to delete a few.

I just can't understand how people can allow themselves to become so spiteful over things that matter so little.

The internet is truly a strange place.

I never understood the thumb rest either. Also, I swear, when I have had a 3 way switch installed in a strat, I felt you could get the in between sounds like a five way, but could barely cheat it a smidge to slightly favor one pickup or the other. Like one would get more voltage or something.

 

[teleme01]

Having spent the 1st 55 years only affiliated with gibson type guitars, I found the information informative.

 

[Hodgo]

I never understood the thumb rest either. Also, I swear, when I have had a 3 way switch installed in a strat, I felt you could get the in between sounds like a five way, but could barely cheat it a smidge to slightly favor one pickup or the other. Like one would get more voltage or something.

I think that’s psychosomatic Spud. You would be able to do this with a 5 way if true but there’s not enough resistance across the switch lugs for that to occur.

 

[ghostrider]

Wow....like any rational person, I never have a beef with people's opinions that run contrary to mine. But some of those comments on YouTube today have been simply awful. Really viscous ad hominems aimed at me. I had to delete a few.

I just can't understand how people can allow themselves to become so spiteful over things that matter so little.

The internet is truly a strange place.

I thought all of your points were good and valid except for the Strat volume knob (for me). I know some people tend to hit it when strumming, but that's never been an issue for me, but I like the close proximity for quick volume changes.

HOWEVER! I could not agree more about the Tele volume knob. It is insanely annoying and it was something I never realized until I got a rear routed Warmoth Tele.

Any chance we could unite in our hatred to get an option to move that hole for a rear routed body? If I were to order it again, I'd drill my own hole... or get the top rout which is what I have on order now and one of those fancy Tele control plates that has the angled switch.

 

[Spud]

I think that’s psychosomatic Spud. You would be able to do this with a 5 way if true but there’s not enough resistance across the switch lugs for that to occur.

I think it can be done with a 5 way too. It's not untrue.............if you believe it.

 

[Strat Avenger]

100% correct on all points.
I'd also add the squared off clunky heel on an otherwise nicely contoured body. Such a contradiction.
I've always thought the thumb rest should have been located where Aaron suggested.
And yeah, there are a lot of ignorant, arrogant D-bags on YouYube comment sections.

Now I need to order one of those Tele control plates. I never knew about those!

 

[Spud]

I think that’s psychosomatic Spud. You would be able to do this with a 5 way if true but there’s not enough resistance across the switch lugs for that to occur.

 

[rockandroller]

Nailed it!
Is that blue strat a 7/8th or does that have a baritone neck?

 

[jjwu]

10 things that Warmoth got wrong:

1. Fat 7-string headstock that pulls the strings sideways across the nut.
2. No chambered 5-string bass bodies.

Ok maybe just 2 things.

 

[Hagwood]

I just can't understand how people can allow themselves to become so spiteful over things that matter so little.

The internet is truly a strange place.

I think the entire world is becoming a very strange place…..

 

[Hodgo]

10 things that Warmoth got wrong:

1. Fat 7-string headstock that pulls the strings sideways across the nut.
2. No chambered 5-string bass bodies.

Ok maybe just 2 things.

I prefer to see these as things Warmoth has yet to get right… but I bet 7-strings and 5-string basses cumulatively make up only a teensy fraction of Warmoth’s total sales.