New video: What if Malcolm Young played a Wramoth?

[aarontunes]

Lots of positive feedback on this one! What do you think?

 

[bonesofwrath]

For the big reveal you should've panned the guitar hard right and just left the left side silent.

 

[Spud]

Lots of positive feedback on this one! What do you think?

I watched the whole video, did you have Warmoth drill all the holes or no?

 

[supertruper1988]

Looks awesome!

 

[bonesofwrath]

I think Warmoth drilled the volume pot and bridge post holes since 1) AA is stumping for the W and 2) had he elected to drill it himself it would probably be for a specific reason he would've told us about (ie I like it here). He gave plenty of detail on the pickup routing. And 3) Aaron has warned us previously about wild hair builds. (Which i frequently ignore Sorry dude, advice noted.)

 

[desertrider13]

The video was great. I really like it without the F holes. Possibly a stupid question but, on the builder the Mooncaster is listed as a hollow carved top. Is it fully a hollowbody? Or is it a center block design. Thanks all.

 

[aarontunes]

I watched the whole video, did you have Warmoth drill all the holes or no?

The volume knob is one of the stock positions from the Mooncaster builder choices. I just went with that, because if you look at my pics of my original Gretch Malcolm Young model, it also clear out by the edge of the body.

I think Warmoth drilled the volume pot and bridge post holes since 1) AA is stumping for the W and 2) had he elected to drill it himself it would probably be for a specific reason he would've told us about (ie I like it here). He gave plenty of detail on the pickup routing. And 3) Aaron has warned us previously about wild hair builds. (Which i frequently ignore Sorry dude, advice noted.)

Would be easy enough to drill your own if you wanted them in custom positions. The control cavity in cavernous.

I stump for Warmoth to be sure, but they also give me the latitude to do just about anything I want in these videos, including reviewing things and giving my honest opinions about products Warmoth doesn't sell, going rogue on build specs, etc.

 

[Rick]

Looks great (and sounds great), though I'm wondering what the original bigsby was like. Can you even put a bigsby on a mooncaster? Maybe.

 

[TBurst Std]

It’s neither. It’s a heavily routed body with a top cap. It is not built with separate sides and back like a hollow (330) or a semi (335 hollow with a center block). Think modern Ric 360.

 

[aarontunes]

The video was great. I really like it without the F holes. Possibly a stupid question but, on the builder the Mooncaster is listed as a hollow carved top. Is it fully a hollowbody? Or is it a center block design. Thanks all.

Hollow body, chambered, thinline, et al; the delineations between all those things can get a little loosey-goosey. The Mooncaster is listed as a hollow carved top, but it's not a true hollow body in the sense that a Gretsch is. But it is also definitely more than simply "chambered" or "thinline".

The entire body core is cut from a single piece of wood, and the wings are completely hollowed out. Then the top is glued on.

When Ken Warmoth was developing the Mooncaster, he actually purchased a custom shop Gibson 339, because they are made the same way. It's still sitting in the Warmoth headquarters, nearly untouched for 15 years. I've been scheming about how to "permanently borrow" it for that entire time. Creative suggestions are welcomed.

 

[bonesofwrath]

I stump for Warmoth to be sure, but they also give me the latitude to do just about anything I want in these videos, including reviewing things and giving my honest opinions about products Warmoth doesn't sell, going rogue on build specs, etc.

I didn't mean that in a bad way just that if it wasn't a stock offering you would have likely explained it, if only to avoid questions about why can't I get that location in the builder?

 

[aarontunes]

I didn't mean that in a bad way just that if it wasn't a stock offering you would have likely explained it, if only to avoid questions about why can't I get that location in the builder?

No worries. I didn't take it that way.