The Joe Perry Warmoth

[Rokstar]

http://www.rsguitarworks.net/cms2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=47&Itemid=58

Hey all,
This is my first post here! I have found the guitar of my dreams, I'm totally in love with Joe Perry's custom build. I've always wanted to build a kind of "vintage" custom and this is going to be it! I need help though...

I'd like to do a similar finish, I'm going to do a mahogany body, can anyone recommend a stain that would somewhat match what Joe has done? It doesn't need to be exact. I'd love to have something a bit raw looking.

The really big problem I'm having is choosing a bridge. I wouldn't mind a gotoh trem, but I'm kind of over trems and am really sick of floyds. The gotoh 510 does not appeal to me at all. I'd like a string thru, but it doesn't appear there is any option for that. I'd love the TOM string thru, but that's only for flat tops.

Any suggestions would be a great help, thanks!

 

[Mor Paul]

So, are you also thinking about doing a carved top LPS?

 

[Rokstar]

Yeah, I was thinking this guitar was a carved top, but I'm searching youtube for clips of it and it might not be... If it was a flat top that would make my like a lot easier and it would be a lot cheaper too. I'm almost considering doing it in walnut as well. I'm not sure how it compares to something like mahogany. I want to put two seymour duncan pickups in it. A custom in the bridge and whatever would go with it in the neck. Their site recommends something that goes well with it...

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

For a finish like that....Kiwi Brown shoe polish applied unevenly.

 

[mullyman]

Looks like a flat top to me.
MULLY

 

[hannaugh]

I think it looks like a carved top, but that's no reason you shouldn't make it a flat top. 

 

[Lucky #7]

I didn't know there was any doubt it was a flat top. 

Regardless,  I think Gregg hand picked the woods for it, so he would know for certain.

 

[Patrick]

yeah the burn marks make the illusion of a carved top.
from what i hear the jazz and the '59 go pretty well with the custom

 

[Rokstar]

Yeah I've searched quite a bit. It really looks to be a flat top. The burns do give the illusion of a carved top. So that makes the bridge an easy choice, recessed TOM it is, in gold I think... Not sure what style of humbuckers to put in, nickel or zebra...

 

[hannaugh]

It looks pretty carved in this picture.  The highlight on the lower left area looks like it's on a rounded surface, and the slight shadow on the top of the leather part tells me it's a carved top.  If it's the burn marks and the metal studs that are giving it an illusion, they're doing a really good job.  

 

[hannaugh]

Look at the highlights and shadows on it here too, especially right above his hand.

 

[Rokstar]

Damn, maybe it is carved. I think it would still be a cool flat top...

 

[Mor Paul]

Yep, it would. Hey, let me dig up a Les Paul thread from another forum.

 

[Lucky #7]

Definitely flat:

Here's the thread by the way that Gregg originally talked about it.  He doesn't say if it is flat or not, but I remember the pictures in Guitar World being pretty clear.

http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=10895.0

 

[Rokstar]

Yeah the top cut away area looks really flat on that cover. I left that mag at work, that's what got me going on this...

 

[Lucky #7]

I think the problem with the two pictures where it looks carved is that it's in concert lighting all the way and walnut has a grain that bows out a lot of times that I have seen it which can make a flat top look carved from certain angles.  I could be wrong, but I'm pretty certain it's flat.

 

[hannaugh]

I still think it's carved, but it's pretty obvious you would rather have a flat top, so build it as a flat top.  It's your guitar, not his!   :icon_thumright:

 

[Lucky #7]

What do girls know?

 

[Rokstar]

HAHA! It's cool to have some girls hang on these kinds of forums. I never see that much... I think I need to go with the flat top. I always wanted to do a flat LPS with recessed TOM. I was always envisioning it being white, but this will be much more fun!

 

[m4rk0]

I'm almost considering doing it in walnut as well. I'm not sure how it compares to something like mahogany.

Didn't I already tell you that???  :icon_biggrin: