Greetings,
I'm in the middle of my first Warmoth build, a swamp ash telecaster with a birdseye maple neck, Callaham bridge, Fralin stock pickups, and Gotoh locking tuners. I'm having an unholy experience with this guitar, and it's making me worried. I had all of my parts appear before christmas, and put it together as a test build to see how everything fit together. All the Warmoth bits were perfect, and everything else (like the bakelite pickguard from some ebay seller) sucked. I threw on a set of strings, put maybe 3 minutes into tweaking the rod and saddles, and hit my first chord...
And was totally floored.
Out of the box, with not anywhere close to the level of tweaking I've always had to put into any and all guitars, this thing was perfect. The 59 roundback felt like the neck I'l been searching my adult life for, the 10-16 radius made the action phenomenal, there was absolutely no need to even consider dressing the frets, and the guitar absolutely sang. I tried one of the Earvana graphtech nuts as well, and have never had a guitar that has such good intonation everywhere (that includes my hyperexpensive PRS).
Now, my problem. I can't stop playing it. I have not taken it outside the house, nor do I plan to, and I'm keeping it away from windows and opportunities for significant temperature fluctuations. I know I need to get on with finishing at least the neck soon, but my window of time for doing this is has largely closed. I'm not going to risk doing anything in the garage until the temperature stabilizes, and with my schedule I'm having real difficulty finding the time to rig my spare room as somewhere I can finish the neck, much less having the time to actually do it. I have a hard time seeing how I'm going to be able to do it up properly until maybe April. I know all about the warranty stuff, and as much as I'm digging the raw feel, I know it needs to get stabilized. Is that too long to wait?
Cheers!
I'm in the middle of my first Warmoth build, a swamp ash telecaster with a birdseye maple neck, Callaham bridge, Fralin stock pickups, and Gotoh locking tuners. I'm having an unholy experience with this guitar, and it's making me worried. I had all of my parts appear before christmas, and put it together as a test build to see how everything fit together. All the Warmoth bits were perfect, and everything else (like the bakelite pickguard from some ebay seller) sucked. I threw on a set of strings, put maybe 3 minutes into tweaking the rod and saddles, and hit my first chord...
And was totally floored.
Out of the box, with not anywhere close to the level of tweaking I've always had to put into any and all guitars, this thing was perfect. The 59 roundback felt like the neck I'l been searching my adult life for, the 10-16 radius made the action phenomenal, there was absolutely no need to even consider dressing the frets, and the guitar absolutely sang. I tried one of the Earvana graphtech nuts as well, and have never had a guitar that has such good intonation everywhere (that includes my hyperexpensive PRS).
Now, my problem. I can't stop playing it. I have not taken it outside the house, nor do I plan to, and I'm keeping it away from windows and opportunities for significant temperature fluctuations. I know I need to get on with finishing at least the neck soon, but my window of time for doing this is has largely closed. I'm not going to risk doing anything in the garage until the temperature stabilizes, and with my schedule I'm having real difficulty finding the time to rig my spare room as somewhere I can finish the neck, much less having the time to actually do it. I have a hard time seeing how I'm going to be able to do it up properly until maybe April. I know all about the warranty stuff, and as much as I'm digging the raw feel, I know it needs to get stabilized. Is that too long to wait?
Cheers!
