Well, to get back to the bodies - the new Warmoth Warhead 24-fret 24.75" scale neck is the gold standard for me. I really can't see the point of building any more brontosauric instruments crippled by their pathetic 22-frettedness... and it really is more for the ability to use different fingerings up high, nut just for that last squeaky little note. It would be kindly if the Warmoth folks could at least plug in a "Warhead" bridge and pickup location making their new bodies compatible with their best neck NOW, while they're writing programs, instead of expecting to charge $45 or $90 or something to match their new modern body with what is really the new modern neck standard of 24 frets. Only Eddie Van Halen and a few creaky other old-timers are playing 22 fret necks anyway.
It's one thing to compete with improved parts for the half-century old "classics", but there's a reason Schecter, Ibanez, ESP, Jackson and an alphabet-soup of others are cleaning Fender's clock among younger buyers, and it ain't all just the "gramps factor" - it's features too. Most of these Warmoth gets - hunky frets, ALL the bridges, options for active electronics etc. But 24 frets are standard on the guitars my students buy, the Schecters and Ibani. And the Music Man Petrucci (24 frets), the quarter-century old Paul Reed Smith 24's, the Guthrie Govan Suhrs (24 frets), and the new 24-fret Ibanez Satriani are high on the lust list for those who don't 'moth....
Welcome to the 21st Century? :icon_scratch:
While we're at it maybe Warmoth can figure out WHO the heck is selling Schecter and Jackson their 18-inch radius tunematics, or go bang on Tone Pros noggin's hard enough to loosen that clog.
