Nuno talks about Warmoth

[aarontunes]

Here's another video of Nuno talking about how his sig model started with a Warmoth:

 

[aarontunes]

It makes me wonder how many artists signature models came from Warmoth parts. There are three I know for certain:

Nuno - N4
Vivan Campbell - Night Swan
Chris Shifflet - Tele Deluxe

 

[Strat Avenger]

Nuno just left Washburn.

 

[Hodgo]

Nuno just left Washburn.

Shoot… I was really hoping to grab a Nele at some point.

 

[Strat Avenger]

I wonder if Warmoth will be making parts for his new guitar company.

 

[Edison Chase]

It makes me wonder how many artists signature models came from Warmoth parts. There are three I know for certain:

Nuno - N4
Vivan Campbell - Night Swan
Chris Shifflet - Tele Deluxe

You can throw Ed Van Halen in there too.

His "Boogie Bodies" build (which he purchased from Wayne Charvel) was technically a pre-Warmoth product, but was manufactured by Lynn Ellsworth and Ken's father, Jim.

Chip Ellis has stated Ed's guitar body had a "Boogie Bodies" stamp in the routes.

 

[aarontunes]

Shoot… I was really hoping to grab a Nele at some point.

 

[aarontunes]

You can throw Ed Van Halen in there too.

His "Boogie Bodies" build (which he purchased from Wayne Charvel) was technically a pre-Warmoth product, but was manufactured by Lynn Ellsworth and Ken's father, Jim.

Chip Ellis has stated Ed's guitar body had a "Boogie Bodies" stamp in the routes.

Yep, I know. Ken was running the neck department at Boogie Bodies and almost certainly worked on the neck.

We typically shy away from thumping our chests about that, but it's pretty apparent in photos:

 

[VanHeGen]

Yep, I know. Ken was running the neck department at Boogie Bodies and almost certainly worked on the neck.

We typically shy away from thumping our chests about that, but it's pretty apparent in photos:

Wow, absolutely wow!

 

[Edison Chase]

Pretty interesting.. this is an example of a Boogie Bodies build from 1979, right before the Warmoth/Ellsworth split.

This might as well be a prototype for a Joe Satriani signature guitar, decades later.

Look at the super-rounded body, offset horns for upper fret access, no pickguard, bridge humbucker, neck single-coil, tremolo bridge, etc.

 

[aarontunes]

This might as well be a prototype for a Joe Satriani signature guitar, decades later.

Look at the super-rounded body, offset horns for upper fret access, no pickguard, bridge humbucker, neck single-coil, tremolo bridge, etc.

Ya, pretty crazy! NFT Floyd too, or as they called it back then: a Floyd Rose tremolo.

 

[aarontunes]

And since this is/was a Nuno thread, here he is with his Warmoth (and 3/4 of the band with some pretty dope headbands):

 

[aarontunes]

Hey....new info for this Nuno thread. I was just shown this old article from a Japanese magazine. It's a rig-rundown that shows two of Nuno's guitars from that period, and they both have Warmoth necks. This is from before the Stephens Extended Cutaway was incorporated, obviously.

The black "N1" guitar on the left appears to be the same guitar Nuno is holding on their first album cover, shown in the post above.

 

[Tretgeraet]

That N1 looks like a normal rear routed Strat body with the upper (bass) side being sanded off, with a sanding drum or something like that.

 

[aarontunes]

That N1 looks like a normal rear routed Strat body with the upper (bass) side being sanded off, with a sanding drum or something like that.

I wondered about that too. I'm thinking maybe it is just a distortion from the page being bent by the thumb that is holding it in the lower left.

Or not.

 

[supertruper1988]

It looks like an OG Dinky Strat which is just a strat outline with 1/4" removed all the way around. Sometimes called a "Short Horn" dinky. Think the original DeMartini Snake Sigs.

Its basically the same as an Anderson ProAm or Suhr Standard.

 

[ghostrider]

I wondered about that too. I'm thinking maybe it is just a distortion from the page being bent by the thumb that is holding it in the lower left.

Or not.

IDK, it kinda looks like that on the album cover too...

 

[aarontunes]

IDK, it kinda looks like that on the album cover too...

Ya, it kinda does.

I'll ask him next time we cross paths.

 

[stultzies9]

Pretty interesting.. this is an example of a Boogie Bodies build from 1979, right before the Warmoth/Ellsworth split.

This might as well be a prototype for a Joe Satriani signature guitar, decades later.

Look at the super-rounded body, offset horns for upper fret access, no pickguard, bridge humbucker, neck single-coil, tremolo bridge, etc.

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Funny you should mention that. Joe has said in multiple interviews that the rhythm guitars on the Flying in a Blue Dream album, and I think Surfing With The Alien (I may be wrong about that one), were all done with a Boogie Bodies guitar with two different loaded pickguards. One had single coils, and the other had humbuckers. He'd swap the guards out between takes depending on what sound he needed.

 

[aarontunes]

That N1 looks like a normal rear routed Strat body with the upper (bass) side being sanded off, with a sanding drum or something like that.

I wondered about that too. I'm thinking maybe it is just a distortion from the page being bent by the thumb that is holding it in the lower left.

Or not.

So I finally put my readers on and squinted for a long time at the text in that photo, and it turns out @Tretgeraet was right. Below are two excerpts from the magazine that I could make out. It looks to be an interview, with Nuno is answering questions.

Nuno - “I’m not sure, but I think the body is maple. I’m small, so I borrowed a friend’s electric saw and carved the top part of the body myself. Only the left half of the body has been shaved off, which gives it a slightly wild look, and the…(can't make out the rest)”

Nuno - “The neck is made of mahogany, which is rare for a Fender-style guitar, and has been replaced with a replacement parts manufacturer called Warmoth from Washington, rather than a Jackson.”