Showcase questions.

[misplacedsanity]

When buying a standard (3 single coils) front routed showcase strat, can you request different routes? hum/sing/hum for instance.
Also, if it's routed for an American standard trem could you request a wilky route?
Got my fingers crossed on this one.

 

[NonsenseTele]

HSH is yes!
Wilky I'm not sure...

 

[dbw]

Call and ask, they can tell you in 1 second.

 

[Patrick from Davis]

The Tele I got had the normal Tele routes, and I had it routed for HxH.  It was unfinished.  I see that a lot of the finished Showcase Strats have term routes on the back, but the face is ready to be routed for whichever trem you'd like to put on it.  I would expect that a change in the pickup route was possible after seeing that.
Patrick

 

[Wana_make_a_guitar]

http://www.warmoth.com/guitar/options/options_guitar_bridge_routing.cfm

I dunno about the trem, but i think it could be done, it looks like it.  :icon_scratch:

 

[jackthehack]

When buying a standard (3 single coils) front routed showcase strat, can you request different routes? hum/sing/hum for instance.
Also, if it's routed for an American standard trem could you request a wilky route?
Got my fingers crossed on this one.

1.) You can change any existing pickup route to something that doesn;t require to put wood back in.
2.) Where are you seeing one already routed in front? They tend to all have a std. rear tremolo route, routing on top done to order?

 

[misplacedsanity]

It was this little beauty that caught my eye:

I didn't want to bother them with an email, I'm sure they get a million and one daft questions like this. Besides I've got
two projects that are pretty much finished and another couple that are on the back burner and I promised myself I
would buy anything new before I'd completed at least one. But you know how it is, just having a look through the
showcase late on a Saturday night.

 

[misplacedsanity]

and I promised myself I would buy anything new

Little freudian slip there. That should read: "Wouldn't buy anything new."

 

[SrDeMaFp]

1.) You can change any existing pickup route to something that doesn;t require to put wood back in.

No shit, I passed up a lot of bodies I could have used, in that case! How about a body with just one 'bucker route? Would they route a neck pup?

 

[misplacedsanity]

Absolutely, I've bought a couple of bodies off of the showcase that were only routed for a bridge humbucker that I've had Warmoth put in neck routes.

 

[tfarny]

I've done this with almost everything I've bought off the showcase. No charge and no big deal.

 

[SrDeMaFp]

Thanks for the info, I feel like such an ass now... :icon_tongue:

 

[Xochitl]

I've done this with almost everything I've bought off the showcase. No charge and no big deal.

How is the paint job afterwards on the area that needed to be routed?

 

[tfarny]

Either it's all covered up by a pickguard, or it's a 'new' route in bare wood, for example getting a J bass bridge pickup added to a P bass body.

 

[Xochitl]

Either it's all covered up by a pickguard, or it's a 'new' route in bare wood, for example getting a J bass bridge pickup added to a P bass body.

Nope. Warmoth also offers this option on rear routed guitars.

 

[Creepies]

Whoa! I usually don't like Fender style guitars that flashy... but Warmoth manages to change all my aesthetic preferences  :hello2:.