Out of the box ( X dead turtle ) cautions?

[Steve_Karl]

The blue paper ... with the cross bones behind the turtle says: "do not drill, route, paint or modify in any way."

Does this include screwing the neck onto the body?

How about putting the tail piece studs into the body, claw screws and springs and mounting the bridge?

Reason is, just using a straight edge, the alignment looks off.
It's looks noticeably different than my other ( much older warmoth ) even though the neck is the same width at the nut, and the bridge is the same spacing ...
the difference being on my old one the strings seem visually very close to the same distance from the edge of the neck, at the nut and at the last fret.
Actually, they might be just a hair wider at the nut.

On the new one the strings ( well the straight edge ) is farther from the edge of the neck at the nut, and much much closer to the edge of the neck
at the highest fret on both high and low e strings.
I've been setting the straight edge to the center of the nut slot and the saddle using a magnifying glass to check to see that it's as close as possible.

So ... it kind of seems to be the reverse of how my old one is aligned. Old one still has original warmoth nut.

Anyway ....
There's no way I can know for sure without mounting the neck and bridge and stringing it up.

So ... does anyone know the official scoop on whether screwing in the neck and tapping in the studs will make a return impossible,
if there's an alignment problem?

Thanks!

 

[dbw]

Call Warmoth on Monday

 

[Steve_Karl]

dangggggggggggg ...............  ok ok ... I'll put it all bag in the bags 'n' boxes.

I guess that's the only way to really know.

Thanks,

S

 

[callaway]

If mounting the neck and bridge does not include drilling, routing, painting, or modifying, then I say you're fine. If you're screwing into already-drilled holes, I'm sure you can argue to them that that would be fine. After all, how are you going to know for sure if the alignment is right until after you do those things?

 

[callaway]

Although if you have to press studs into the body, that might not be covered.