AdmiralEasychord
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Hello, everyone. I'm new to this board, obviously, and I've got plenty of questions.
A friend of mine works at a local music store, and he recently bought a customized Warmoth-made Telecaster. It's extremely beautiful, and he highly recommends Warmoth.
I haven't played guitar for very long, but I'm very sure on where I want to go with it, and how I want a guitar made for me, but there's tons of things I'm not very knowledgeable about, nor am I experienced enough to decide on my own. So, here's the lowdown:
I'm pretty big on indie and alternative rock. Although not specifically a shoegazer, I want to incorporate elements of that scene into my playing. Blending distortion and reverb, lots of washing waves of guitar through delay, etc. I've been told that the two main guitars that are staples of the shoegaze scene are the Fender siblings: the Jaguar and the Jazzmaster.
Well, I've never played either of them, so their unique circuitry and lead/rhythm features that they boast... I'm not keen on them. I'm unable to experience them for myself before I purchase one (and I've looked pretty far for a shop that has them in stock, so I can test them. No dice.)
So, after seeing my friend's tele, I started thinking alot about making a dream guitar. Basic specs in mind:
- Jaguar body, painted solid black.
- On the control plate, instead of having both a tone and volume knob, I'd like to switch out the tone knob and only keep the volume. That would be to make room to have a customized plate that would contain a strat-style input, which is my preferred style. I hate side-inputs, and I don't like my chord sticking straight out of the body.
- The most heretical part of my guitar set-up, however, would be completely removing the feature that makes the Jag so special - the circuitry. Instead, I'd like to wire the two rolling knobs on the upper control plate to become Tone Knobs for the bridge and neck pickups. The switch on the that control plate, I would like to wire into a three-position switch that would act as a pickup selector, with the options being Neck pickup, both pickups, and Bridge Pickup.
- The lower control plate, I would like to take out the middle switch and have the other two switches become three-position switches. They would act as pickup controls. I'd like to put in the Fender humbuckers, with a coil-split available in both. The pick-up controls would allow me to choose whether I want each pickup to act as a humbucker, single-coil, or have them turn off.
- Maple neck with a rosewood fretboard, all the maple painted black. Here, I was wondering if it was possible to substitute the 24" neck with a 25.5" one, as I'm used to playing a strat. I don't know if that is doable without screwing up the intonation of the guitar. Secondly, and this is totally aesthetic, but I was hoping to switch out the Fender headstock and slap on an Epiphone Thunderbird headstock that might be slightly modified to accommodate the guitar's tuning heads.
- And then, I would also like the Jaguar trem set-up with the Warmoth modified Mustang Bridge, and whatever tuning heads would keep it the strings in tune with extensive whammy-usage.
*Deep breath.* Whew.
Thanks for taking the time to read all that.
So how much of this is and isn't doable?
A friend of mine works at a local music store, and he recently bought a customized Warmoth-made Telecaster. It's extremely beautiful, and he highly recommends Warmoth.
I haven't played guitar for very long, but I'm very sure on where I want to go with it, and how I want a guitar made for me, but there's tons of things I'm not very knowledgeable about, nor am I experienced enough to decide on my own. So, here's the lowdown:
I'm pretty big on indie and alternative rock. Although not specifically a shoegazer, I want to incorporate elements of that scene into my playing. Blending distortion and reverb, lots of washing waves of guitar through delay, etc. I've been told that the two main guitars that are staples of the shoegaze scene are the Fender siblings: the Jaguar and the Jazzmaster.
Well, I've never played either of them, so their unique circuitry and lead/rhythm features that they boast... I'm not keen on them. I'm unable to experience them for myself before I purchase one (and I've looked pretty far for a shop that has them in stock, so I can test them. No dice.)
So, after seeing my friend's tele, I started thinking alot about making a dream guitar. Basic specs in mind:
- Jaguar body, painted solid black.
- On the control plate, instead of having both a tone and volume knob, I'd like to switch out the tone knob and only keep the volume. That would be to make room to have a customized plate that would contain a strat-style input, which is my preferred style. I hate side-inputs, and I don't like my chord sticking straight out of the body.
- The most heretical part of my guitar set-up, however, would be completely removing the feature that makes the Jag so special - the circuitry. Instead, I'd like to wire the two rolling knobs on the upper control plate to become Tone Knobs for the bridge and neck pickups. The switch on the that control plate, I would like to wire into a three-position switch that would act as a pickup selector, with the options being Neck pickup, both pickups, and Bridge Pickup.
- The lower control plate, I would like to take out the middle switch and have the other two switches become three-position switches. They would act as pickup controls. I'd like to put in the Fender humbuckers, with a coil-split available in both. The pick-up controls would allow me to choose whether I want each pickup to act as a humbucker, single-coil, or have them turn off.
- Maple neck with a rosewood fretboard, all the maple painted black. Here, I was wondering if it was possible to substitute the 24" neck with a 25.5" one, as I'm used to playing a strat. I don't know if that is doable without screwing up the intonation of the guitar. Secondly, and this is totally aesthetic, but I was hoping to switch out the Fender headstock and slap on an Epiphone Thunderbird headstock that might be slightly modified to accommodate the guitar's tuning heads.
- And then, I would also like the Jaguar trem set-up with the Warmoth modified Mustang Bridge, and whatever tuning heads would keep it the strings in tune with extensive whammy-usage.
*Deep breath.* Whew.
Thanks for taking the time to read all that.
So how much of this is and isn't doable?
