Red one: Chambered Limba/Fl Maple top H-H Strat, Canary neck - updated build!
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Great looking guitar! I've got one with a canary neck and love it (my avatar actually) but it's a bastard child with noiseless P-90s, so I'm not really sure how to objectively describe the tone, because the pickups aren't typical Strat choices. But it looks great, sand sometimes that's more important 
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arty07:anorakDan said:
Well, mismatched combination of pickups didn't work for me, so I replaced black one, that was too hot for me, with another zebra one that is in the same weight category as SH-4/498T/etc. So now this is cool rock-bluesy kind of guitar!
When I split humbuckers I get very close to the strat sounds. Chambered korina + canary sound very-very strat-like. But I so wanted LP tones... So I guess my next build should be mahogany body and Gongalo Alves neck for nice deep LP tones.Mike Seta said:Great looking guitar! I've got one with a canary neck and love it (my avatar actually) but it's a bastard child with noiseless P-90s, so I'm not really sure how to objectively describe the tone, because the pickups aren't typical Strat choices. But it looks great, sand sometimes that's more important
Thanks Mike! I saw your guitars in the warmoth gallery - great work, very impressive! Yes, P-90s sit between classic strat and LP tones, but they are cool in their own way
Ahh, it warms the heartles of m... no, wait....
Ahem. It warms the cockles of me heart to see a young'un figure out that if something isn't doing what you want, CHANGE something and it very well may. Do what you want that is. When you figure that you have X number of pickup types times Y number of neck woods time Z number of frets and ... AA? number of wiring schemes by BB number of speaker types times CC Rider and the thousand cable tone wars and... nnn... nnn....
Far spookier when the young'uns say "This is my first Warmoth and it's absolutely the Greatest guitar I've ever and I'll never" etc. & so on, and the tribal elders just murmur and twitch and the accounting dept. at Warmoth perks up and with the slightest flick of the (accounting) wrist - SETS THE HOOK. And all is well as each guitar gets better or at least slithers a bit sideways into the parallel universes and then the inexplicable happens - all your gained knowledge, zoopy wood and shamelessly brazen pickups lay... a turd. Instead of an egg. And you scratch your head and go "Duh?" and tweeze this and twiddle that and all is well again. Yeah!
THE FAILURES AND LESS-THANS... ARE AT LEAST AS ADDICTIVE AS THE SUCCESSES.
There is a very fine & high science used by the casino folks who's daily, even minute-by-minute job is setting the win/loss ratio of all the "slot" machines in large casinos. They have a constant computer read-out of all the activity in a room with say, 150 machines in it and if there's a marked slowdown they have the ability to POP! IT'S A WINNER! Yeah yeah yeah, so plop down the mortgage, Gramps, "the" luck is changing! I believe that the actual recipients of the changed odds still has to be randomized*, they just can't play favorites (?) but you can be damn sure that the gaming regulatory agencies knows why their jobs exist, and it ain't to shut 'em down.... and the WINNERS! BELLS WHISTLES YAY YAY! also can't be too regular, or peeps, with all their great wisdom and schemes, would just stop betting during the periods that they "know" aren't winning times... :icon_scratch:
And usly, in all our infinite wisdom, are really in the same boat, though Warmoth/Fender/Ibbys and Yammies and all don't have to construct such a regulated overview, as we are entirely capable, by our own li'l selfs (Bless the internet!) of self-programming all the necessary tidbits: and yes, the trees are in on it too.
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Metaprogramming-Human-Biocomputer-Experiments/dp/051752757X
*(heaven hep us all...)
Ahem. It warms the cockles of me heart to see a young'un figure out that if something isn't doing what you want, CHANGE something and it very well may. Do what you want that is. When you figure that you have X number of pickup types times Y number of neck woods time Z number of frets and ... AA? number of wiring schemes by BB number of speaker types times CC Rider and the thousand cable tone wars and... nnn... nnn....
Far spookier when the young'uns say "This is my first Warmoth and it's absolutely the Greatest guitar I've ever and I'll never" etc. & so on, and the tribal elders just murmur and twitch and the accounting dept. at Warmoth perks up and with the slightest flick of the (accounting) wrist - SETS THE HOOK. And all is well as each guitar gets better or at least slithers a bit sideways into the parallel universes and then the inexplicable happens - all your gained knowledge, zoopy wood and shamelessly brazen pickups lay... a turd. Instead of an egg. And you scratch your head and go "Duh?" and tweeze this and twiddle that and all is well again. Yeah!
THE FAILURES AND LESS-THANS... ARE AT LEAST AS ADDICTIVE AS THE SUCCESSES.
There is a very fine & high science used by the casino folks who's daily, even minute-by-minute job is setting the win/loss ratio of all the "slot" machines in large casinos. They have a constant computer read-out of all the activity in a room with say, 150 machines in it and if there's a marked slowdown they have the ability to POP! IT'S A WINNER! Yeah yeah yeah, so plop down the mortgage, Gramps, "the" luck is changing! I believe that the actual recipients of the changed odds still has to be randomized*, they just can't play favorites (?) but you can be damn sure that the gaming regulatory agencies knows why their jobs exist, and it ain't to shut 'em down.... and the WINNERS! BELLS WHISTLES YAY YAY! also can't be too regular, or peeps, with all their great wisdom and schemes, would just stop betting during the periods that they "know" aren't winning times... :icon_scratch:
And usly, in all our infinite wisdom, are really in the same boat, though Warmoth/Fender/Ibbys and Yammies and all don't have to construct such a regulated overview, as we are entirely capable, by our own li'l selfs (Bless the internet!) of self-programming all the necessary tidbits: and yes, the trees are in on it too.
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Metaprogramming-Human-Biocomputer-Experiments/dp/051752757X
*(heaven hep us all...)
StübHead, thanks for making my morning much more fun with your post))
Indeed, building guitar with exotic woods is kind of a casino game. And yes, I know that pickups, amps, speakers are all do shape the tone, but I've been there: when you have wrong wood, then no pickups and speakers can make it vibrate the way you want. You can go classic combination like maple neck/alder body for strat or mahogany neck and body for LP tones or you can play with exotic woods and see what it sounds like.
Life is a game in any means, so let it be fun
))Indeed, building guitar with exotic woods is kind of a casino game. And yes, I know that pickups, amps, speakers are all do shape the tone, but I've been there: when you have wrong wood, then no pickups and speakers can make it vibrate the way you want. You can go classic combination like maple neck/alder body for strat or mahogany neck and body for LP tones or you can play with exotic woods and see what it sounds like.
Life is a game in any means, so let it be fun
Some updates on the build: I was in a music store today and compared this guitar to Gibsons (Les Paul and SG). It's appeared it has a tone that fits right in between SG and LP: LP (Studio Pro 2014 - mahogany neck and chambered body with maple cap) is brighter than my red one (chambered korina body and canary neck). SG (70s tribute 2013) sounds darker and has more solid tone that appeared quite boring to me. My guitar has more airy tone (due to chambered body), that has some magic happening in the mids (korina+canary) and just enough low end EQ for the guitar (same amount as LP has). All in all korina chambered body and canary neck is a great combo - I dig it :icon_thumright:
So in terms of pickup choice: everything that sounds great on gibsons should sound great on that too.
:icon_thumright:So in terms of pickup choice: everything that sounds great on gibsons should sound great on that too.
