on-site selection

[JK]

i guess this is mainly for gregg but someone else might know. can a customer visit the company in wa and select their body, neck, fretboard, etc.?

 

[Wyliee]

Sorry, but no.  Warmoth is not open to the public.

 

[RLW]

Allowing the public into a working woodshop would be very popular with the lawyers.

 

[Rick]

Lawyers?
Tacoma had tours
Martin has tours
Ovation has tours
Hamer has tours

Check out the slide show.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/travel/escapes/22guitar.html?em&ex=1203829200&en=5448de13e19c5db8&ei=5087%0A

I'm pretty sure hell would freeze over, if it were me, if I let people into my shop to choose wood, unless they were an extremely special customer.  I think they may have other reasons.  Trade secrets?  Don't want to be bothered with work flow interruptions. Tours would seem to be a doable thing, but they have their reasons.

 

[Alfang]

I just built a guitar for a buddy, who drove to puyallop, went to warmoth, bought the body. Handed it to me and ordered a neck (Warmoth) and I assembled his guitar for him. It's a beautifull Black alder body with a red perloid pickguard and a stupid reverse headstock strat neck.

He had the body for a while before I got it