WarmothRules
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About 15 years ago I had a warmoth build that was a cheap squire body and a reverse KWS neck tuned in B standard. I played it in my technical death metal band and it was amazing but with some major flaws. The nut was never cut properly because I didn’t know anything about that and the saddles were un slotted ones on an ultra cheap 6 screw vintage trem. Since I was trem picking true 16th notes between 220-240 bpm I use to push the strings to locations on the saddles that matched what my hand wanted to do naturally. This made for some really clean accurate trem picking. The problem was since the guitar’s nut wasn’t cut properly and the strings just laid on the unslotted saddles pushed off to the sides the tuning stability was horrendous. I could play one song before I would have to push the strings back to where I liked them on the saddles and retune the guitar. I only sold that guitar because of its tuning instability. Between then and today I’ve tried many guitars and they were ok but still not exactly what I wanted for this band. The current guitar I’m using for these songs is an agile baritone 28 5/8 scale. Same as the warmoth baritone scale. The thing I dislike the most about this guitar is it’s kind of dark sounding. Not because of the pickups but because of the construction. It’s a tune o Matic bridge. It’s not bright and snappy. I love 28 5/8 scale because I can use thinner strings in B. When it’s fender scale you have to use pretty thick strings to get good tension in B.
So the intention with this new build is to have baritone scale, a bright snappy tone coming from a maple fender headstock baritone warmoth neck, and adjustable saddles side to side from a schaller 475 bridge so I can mimic my early setup. I’m tired of black on black so in my order I have a white pick guard coming. I had one of these squire bullet bodies in the past and thought the stock pickup sounded amazing! It’s very bright and clear. Almost like a single coil. If I don’t like it this time I’ll be putting on the white pick guard and putting in a dimarzio dominion pickup I have laying around. The baritone neck I ordered will have gold frets. I’ve had stainless steel frets before and didn’t like them. They felt weird. I know gold is hard but slightly softer than SS so I should be happy with it. Will add pics when the neck comes and add pics during the process of the build.
So the intention with this new build is to have baritone scale, a bright snappy tone coming from a maple fender headstock baritone warmoth neck, and adjustable saddles side to side from a schaller 475 bridge so I can mimic my early setup. I’m tired of black on black so in my order I have a white pick guard coming. I had one of these squire bullet bodies in the past and thought the stock pickup sounded amazing! It’s very bright and clear. Almost like a single coil. If I don’t like it this time I’ll be putting on the white pick guard and putting in a dimarzio dominion pickup I have laying around. The baritone neck I ordered will have gold frets. I’ve had stainless steel frets before and didn’t like them. They felt weird. I know gold is hard but slightly softer than SS so I should be happy with it. Will add pics when the neck comes and add pics during the process of the build.
