Hey all,
I've never built a Warmoth before, this is going to be my first. (hopefully i'll order by the end of summer.) I'm toying with some ideas and i want to know what you all think. any input is greatly appreciated. i know that i'm going to have to do some drilling and routing, and i'm fine with that. I have some pretty decent carpentry skills and all the tools needed (drill press, belt sander, table router, etc.)
i have a photoshopped image of basically all that i want in my guitar. [i understand the copyright laws of using the "V"... but i don't plan on making a profit or anything using the image.]
anyway, here's my plan:
unfinished, alder, strat body, i'll worry about painting it
maple neck, (maybe flamed or bird) with ebony fretboard, pearl inlays, explorer head
2 humms, EMGs most likely (so i need a double battery box)
a blade switch for the pickup selection (3-position)
2 vol, 2 tone (les paul configuration)
a "killswitch" for the pickups (buckethead and tom morello influenced)
i originally planned on using a tremking but i'm reconsidering an original floyd rose. if anyone has some advice on this, i'd love to hear it.
anyway, i like the idea of a white guitar with all black hardware. and i don't dig pickguards (usually). however, it looked to "plain" and "blank" when i first started with the idea, so i added a painted "V" from the movie (/graphic novel) V for Vendetta. now i'm no anarchist, but it had some really great messages throughout that go hand-in-hand with music. (also related to the censorship of music in the movie). i thought it looked pretty badass as well. :glasses10:
now i know it's unnecessary to have a les paul configuration of knobs on a strat, but i really like the idea a lot. as well as the killswitch with pickup selector. i have a les paul guitar already that i can use as a template for knob placement as well as routing depths... etc.
thanks
I've never built a Warmoth before, this is going to be my first. (hopefully i'll order by the end of summer.) I'm toying with some ideas and i want to know what you all think. any input is greatly appreciated. i know that i'm going to have to do some drilling and routing, and i'm fine with that. I have some pretty decent carpentry skills and all the tools needed (drill press, belt sander, table router, etc.)
i have a photoshopped image of basically all that i want in my guitar. [i understand the copyright laws of using the "V"... but i don't plan on making a profit or anything using the image.]
anyway, here's my plan:
unfinished, alder, strat body, i'll worry about painting it
maple neck, (maybe flamed or bird) with ebony fretboard, pearl inlays, explorer head
2 humms, EMGs most likely (so i need a double battery box)
a blade switch for the pickup selection (3-position)
2 vol, 2 tone (les paul configuration)
a "killswitch" for the pickups (buckethead and tom morello influenced)
i originally planned on using a tremking but i'm reconsidering an original floyd rose. if anyone has some advice on this, i'd love to hear it.
anyway, i like the idea of a white guitar with all black hardware. and i don't dig pickguards (usually). however, it looked to "plain" and "blank" when i first started with the idea, so i added a painted "V" from the movie (/graphic novel) V for Vendetta. now i'm no anarchist, but it had some really great messages throughout that go hand-in-hand with music. (also related to the censorship of music in the movie). i thought it looked pretty badass as well. :glasses10:
now i know it's unnecessary to have a les paul configuration of knobs on a strat, but i really like the idea a lot. as well as the killswitch with pickup selector. i have a les paul guitar already that i can use as a template for knob placement as well as routing depths... etc.
thanks