New video: Top 5 small tricks that make your build look pro!

[aarontunes]

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[bagman67]

Another fine production, A-Ron.

I hope Warmoth realizes what a great job you do for the brand.

How many Warmoth axes do you have, anyway? Are they all yours, or are some of them company vehicles you use for your job?

 

[aarontunes]

Another fine production, A-Ron.

I hope Warmoth realizes what a great job you do for the brand.

Many thanks for the kind words!

How many Warmoth axes do you have, anyway? Are they all yours, or are some of them company vehicles you use for your job?

There are more disembodied parts in my house than the Alamo. Most of them Warmoth owns, and I keep them around for videos. The Peptobismalcaster being the most prominent. I really loved the baritone version of that axe, but alas it's been disassembled and turned into something else now.

Because I have easy/cheap access to Warmoth parts I have the luxury of mixing and matching until something magical happens, so if you only count the guitars I own that are "marked as permanent, never to be disassembled again" I only have about five. Those would be my two Meadowhawks, the Candy Tangerine Hybrid Strat, my black Strat, and the black striped "Explorer-adjacent" guitar I use in my Scorps tribute. I have had many other parts come and got that never made it into something permanent. I also have a few others that I'm still on the fence about.

 

[NedRyerson]

Great tips. I've learned a few new things to consider!

 

[mayfly]

Some of my best builds not only have larger than necessary pickguard screws, but also have MISMATCHED pickguard screws!!!!

... but no one notices because the guy playing the guitar is so good lookin'

 

[bagman67]

My green tele has brass screws holding the chrome control plate on. Of course, the guitar looks like hell, so that particular sartorial choice is well camouflaged.

 

[Don O]

And here’s a no cost, OCD tip. Make sure all your Phillips head screws, front and back, are aligned north-south, east-west.

 

[Scab Pickens]

My green tele has brass screws holding the chrome control plate on. Of course, the guitar looks like hell, so that particular sartorial choice is well camouflaged.

Home Depot brass flat heads on my first and fanciest Warmoth ...

 

[JacobJames]

@Scab Pickens I really like the hardware and pick guard cut at lower horn. Nice setup!

 

[Hodgo]

Great video! A few personal additions:

1. Polish the nut. Even if it’s toothpaste white Corian, it looks better polished. Bone nuts in particular look great polished. Especially if it’s a preslotted jobby that has tool marks left over by the manufacturer.

2. Use the right size driver for the screw head, and wax them before driving to avoid stripping. You shouldn’t have mangled screw heads from using the wrong driver and forcing them in.

3. Pots fall into the same category as toggles and jacks, they should all be level with minimal gaps. And make sure your knobs aren’t mounted all tilted and wobbly.

4. Use a straight edge to line up Kluson style tuners on Fender necks before drilling/mounting. The Gotoh C.A.R.D. system makes this very easy.

5. In addition to the tip about making sure your humbuckers are parallel, if you’re using wood mounts with no pickup rings make sure they’re evenly spaced in the pickup cavity front to back.

 

[u.9]

Ok, I had just installed a jack without the lock washer before watching this. Eventually, after several glances back at the unholy protrusion, I relented! Thank you, Aaron, hero, for preventing the invariable onslaught of insomnia and stress dream Visigoths I had invited upon myself! (though I think I need and extra washer to make it flush)

 

[Don O]

Ok, I had just installed a jack without the lock washer before watching this. Eventually, after several glances back at the unholy protrusion, I relented! Thank you, Aaron, hero, for preventing the invariable onslaught of insomnia and stress dream Visigoths I had invited upon myself! (though I think I need and extra washer to make it flush)

I was looking at my Purple Wuilt build, this months Primo Build, yesterday and realized the pup selector toggle switch just had a regular nut on it with threads showing! Well now THAT can’t remain as so.

I had to ream the poker chip and the body hole a little so that the skirt of the “correct” nut could be installed. Life is now back in equilibrium.

 

[aarontunes]

Great video! A few personal additions:

1. Polish the nut. Even if it’s toothpaste white Corian, it looks better polished. Bone nuts in particular look great polished. Especially if it’s a preslotted jobby that has tool marks left over by the manufacturer.

2. Use the right size driver for the screw head, and wax them before driving to avoid stripping. You shouldn’t have mangled screw heads from using the wrong driver and forcing them in.

3. Pots fall into the same category as toggles and jacks, they should all be level with minimal gaps. And make sure your knobs aren’t mounted all tilted and wobbly.

4. Use a straight edge to line up Kluson style tuners on Fender necks before drilling/mounting. The Gotoh C.A.R.D. system makes this very easy.

5. In addition to the tip about making sure your humbuckers are parallel, if you’re using wood mounts with no pickup rings make sure they’re evenly spaced in the pickup cavity front to back.

Nice!

Another one: felt washers under your strap buttons.

 

[Rick]

Note the use of a dress nut on the mini switch. It's functional too, as the hole is the size for a pot, so I put layered in two small rubber gaskets, and then the nut is large enough to cover the gaskets and the pot hole. It's very sturdy.

 

[bagman67]

Home Depot brass flat heads on my first and fanciest Warmoth ...

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[Joepro182]

Check it out:

Thanks Aaron for this video! It (literally) saved my build. I forgot to order screws for my cavity cover for my Baritone Mooncaster build and I also ordered a locking washer from StewMac for my output jack

 

[teleme01]

build. I forgot to order screws for my cavity cover for my Baritone Mooncaster

Baritone mooncaster, cool