elgravos
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Well the Telepaul is here… pretty much right on time. Hopefully this will give the forum a good view of what the carved top tele really looks like. One of the big problems with everything out there to date – including on the official site - is that you can’t quite tell just how much wood there is in the carved top. As you will see here, the maple cap is pretty consequential: Nice big chunk of wood. It’s especially apparent with the natural masked binding. The design / engineering – not sure what you should call it – of the carved top tele body is outstanding. It’s amazingly well thought out and having looked at it quite a bit, probably far more complicated than most other designs on offer at Warmoth. Congrats to the team on putting that one together. Clearly a lot of thought went into it.
I have to admit I’m not entirely thrilled with the figuring on this one. Visually, I can’t help but feel I would have got a better looking slab of maple with an “off the line” AA flame Gibson LP. In fact, I know I would have - though I like my flame to be on the more subtle side. It’s certainly well figured but I’m sort of struggling to see the flame in this one sometimes (the sun helps a lot in the pics). There’s just no pleasing everyone. I guess that’s why you have to go the unique choice route. Unfortunately, what was on offer at the time I ordered didn’t really appear that much better to me. Looks like there just isn’t as much choice available these days when you want a nice regular flame on a board that’s nearly an inch thick. What would have looked really good with this finish would have been a plain maple top – provided the wood grain came out as nicely as on this one. Live and learn. Figured maple aside, that fireburst top / vintage tint natural binding / clear gloss back combo is pretty killer. I know a couple of people have been complaining about all the masked binding on recent builds but you just have to have something on a carved top.
On the other hand the one piece mahogany back is simply stunning. I haven’t seen the back of an LP / PRS that is anywhere near as nice in donkey’s years. I guess Gibson and PRS are hoarding all the flame maple but Warmoth got dibs on the nice Mahogany!
The neck is par for the course. Absolutely love the look and feel of the rosewood / jet black ebony combination. I also have a sneaky feeling that this is going to be an absolutely killer guitar from a sonic / playability standpoint. More on that once it’s put together.
As for the spec:
Body:
Once piece mahogany / flame maple top / fireburst with natural mask binding (vintage tint) / clear gloss back / 720 mod / Recessed TOM / Contoured Heel and tummy cut.
Neck:
Standard thin rosewood conversion scale with jet black ebony board / SS6105 frets / 11/16th Graphtec earvana nut / 12 inch straight radius.
Going to throw on some staggered Sperzels so as not to have to deal with string trees (hopefully) as well as a set of bareknuckle rebel yells.
It does exist, here are the pics to prove it:
I have to admit I’m not entirely thrilled with the figuring on this one. Visually, I can’t help but feel I would have got a better looking slab of maple with an “off the line” AA flame Gibson LP. In fact, I know I would have - though I like my flame to be on the more subtle side. It’s certainly well figured but I’m sort of struggling to see the flame in this one sometimes (the sun helps a lot in the pics). There’s just no pleasing everyone. I guess that’s why you have to go the unique choice route. Unfortunately, what was on offer at the time I ordered didn’t really appear that much better to me. Looks like there just isn’t as much choice available these days when you want a nice regular flame on a board that’s nearly an inch thick. What would have looked really good with this finish would have been a plain maple top – provided the wood grain came out as nicely as on this one. Live and learn. Figured maple aside, that fireburst top / vintage tint natural binding / clear gloss back combo is pretty killer. I know a couple of people have been complaining about all the masked binding on recent builds but you just have to have something on a carved top.
On the other hand the one piece mahogany back is simply stunning. I haven’t seen the back of an LP / PRS that is anywhere near as nice in donkey’s years. I guess Gibson and PRS are hoarding all the flame maple but Warmoth got dibs on the nice Mahogany!
The neck is par for the course. Absolutely love the look and feel of the rosewood / jet black ebony combination. I also have a sneaky feeling that this is going to be an absolutely killer guitar from a sonic / playability standpoint. More on that once it’s put together.
As for the spec:
Body:
Once piece mahogany / flame maple top / fireburst with natural mask binding (vintage tint) / clear gloss back / 720 mod / Recessed TOM / Contoured Heel and tummy cut.
Neck:
Standard thin rosewood conversion scale with jet black ebony board / SS6105 frets / 11/16th Graphtec earvana nut / 12 inch straight radius.
Going to throw on some staggered Sperzels so as not to have to deal with string trees (hopefully) as well as a set of bareknuckle rebel yells.
It does exist, here are the pics to prove it:
